Garlic Chives

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I usually have something growing in pots on the back porch.

I just picked an empty planter , put some organic FoxFarm soil in it and put the

seeds in.

They do go to seed every year and when I notice they are sending up the seed pod

thingy, I either cut them off and use the stem and immature seeds in salad or a

cooked dish or let the pod grow to maturity. When it gets close to the seeds

popping out (each tiny flower had 4 seeds in it I think), I open a coffee

filter and wrap it around the pod, sort of staple it in place and the seeds

pop off into the bag.

The garlic chives (flat long leaves) are the only thing growing in the pot. I

pulled a few of the plants out last year to give to someone and they have a

little white bulb on the bottom. They will die back during the winter, but come

back when it warms up. I though they were all dead last winter and was going to

pull them out, but a few days later, there were those lovely shoots coming up

again!

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> Had you done much planting before you planted those garlic chives?  I have

some chives but don't think it is garlic that I put in over a year ago and they

are going strong.  I've let them go to flower.  Do I get seeds from the

flowers?  I was going to divide them up and put more in.  I put them in an

upside down countainer with tomatoes.  The garlic did better than the

tomatoes did.  The grape ones were fine but the whole size did about

nothing.  2 tomatoes and birds or bugs got them.

> Carolyn Wilkerson

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Isn't it a marvel of nature the way things come back on their own? I have some

spring onions, baby leeks, and a very persistent pimento pepper plant that come

back in the same little containers, year after year! The pimento even blossomed

with a bright red pepper in the dead middle of winter one year! I looked out on

my deck to see how much snow we had had overnight, and spotted this red thing

mixed against the snow-went and scraped the snow off, and there hung a pepper

from the plant, lol. This is why I NEVER follow the " rules " of gardening-far

more fun to see what sense of humor Mother Nature has, lol

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> > Had you done much planting before you planted those garlic chives?  I

have some chives but don't think it is garlic that I put in over a year ago and

they are going strong.  I've let them go to flower.  Do I get seeds from

the flowers?  I was going to divide them up and put more in.  I put them

in an upside down countainer with tomatoes.  The garlic did better than the

tomatoes did.  The grape ones were fine but the whole size did about

nothing.  2 tomatoes and birds or bugs got them.

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> > Carolyn Wilkerson

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