How To Grow Chives!
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2019
- This week I'll be sharing all about chives.
Follow along as I show you how to collect seeds from your chive plant. We will also cover how to divide and multiply your existing chives to increase your harvest.
Chives can easily be grown by yourself and enjoyed much of the year!
Join me for these hopeful, helpful and healthy tips. 
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I love chives. In the store they were close to 10dollars for a jar of dried chives so today i planted 50 chive seeds in a big circle pot, i cant wait to have fresh chives. Thabk you for all your tips and knowledge.
Fresh is always best right Matt?!
With all those seeds you planted - you're going to be the one selling rather than buying chives :)
@@SustainableStace o yeah it is. And yeah i guess i could eventually sell some chives. I just cant wait to cook with them. Have a good one man!
Great video. I will warn folks to check for carpet beetles before bringing the flower (or any plant really) into the house. In my experience, they really seem to like hiding on flowering chives
Great tip!
This is the best and the only correct video on how to harvest chives. I have been harvesting chives this way for years, my plants are healthy and are over 20 years old. I do grow more from seeds.
A hardcore chives advocate - fantastic!
I'm terrible growing plants, but chives, mint and basil are the only things I can grow! I love cooking with them and using them in salads, etc. I'm a new subscriber. Thank you!
Welcome to the channel - thanks for the sub. Herbs are the ultimate way to deliver fresh flavour to your food!
What's a good salad you make? I'm trying to get recipes or tips
I dont know but i never seem to be able to grow chives i have grown everything but chives keeps dying
Oregano is easy to grow and it comes back every year!
Thank you for a clear and concise explanation on the care of chive’s.. I have one in my herb garden container that comes back year after year. I have always cut them straight across, I didn’t really know to pick them..😂 or to split them. You’ve gained a Sub.
Thank you - and you're welcome!
Happy Growing
You answered all my questions perfectly 👌 thank you 😊
My pleasure 😊 you're welcome Miss Adams!
Short and jam packed of useful info. Thanks
I'm glad it was helpful!
This was well presented and given alot of detailed information, Thank you!
Glad it was helpful Linda!
Thank you! I have chives in containers that have been moved, neglected, used, and such for the last 12 years and they still return each year. Idaho winters and all!
Wonderful!
I have no luck with mine all grow very thin and are useless to eat...
I did not know this was a perennial until it never died and now it’s blooming.
Can you eat or use the chives that are years old?
@@growingorganic5382 yep
I have had the same pot of chives since I was in early HS, it's a 18yr old plant. I haven't changed the soil...or as I used when I was young dirt. The plants are beautiful and I never do anything to it except pull out the dead plants in spring.
Wow!
It sounds like your pot of chives deserves its own documentary.
@@SustainableStace I wish I would have taken photos of the plant over the years, I started it in my freshman year ag class I took. I might start a photo documentary and take a photo or a few every year of it.
Iv got mine in a pot and they are thin as a strand of hair dont know why...
Fabulous vid. So clear, concise.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I planted a small 4inch pot chive plant in a planter last year with other herbs. It did fine all summer but I was surprised to see it come back this spring….with flowers! I thought when plants flowered and went to seed they were done. I guess plants that bolt are done. I have a whole new admiration for this hardy plant. I’ll treat it much better this year. 👏 . I learned a lot from your video. I subscribed.
Hello Twinfin - thanks for the subscription.
Yes, chives are truly remarkable. I find that often in spring they go straight to flowering if they're given the chance . . . .
If you chop off the stems that are bolting, it will keep on growing lovely green stems for you to enjoy!
Very educational and nicely explained . From UK
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us. Very well presented video.
You're very welcome Terry!
Got inspired. I usually order chives in a chinese restaurant. Now i am motivated to plant it myself. Thanks
I'm glad you were inspired - good luck on planting your own!
Good job! Thanks for the info!
I'm glad it was helpful!
Thank you very much! This is very helpful!
You're very welcome - I'm glad it was helpful!
Such a high quality video! Subscribing for sure!
Much appreciated!
Thank you for an excellent video.
You're welcome Patricia - I'm glad you liked it !
So knowledgeable and not hard on the eyes ;) thanks for an informative video.
Thanks for visiting - Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome
hi its a big help to me thank you.im fr Phils
Great video, very informative!!
I'm glad it was helpful Terrence!
This was great, thank you
I'm glad it was helpful!
I’ve some growing everywhere in my backyard in pots and on the ground for the past 8 years they just keep coming back. Recently I discovered how to make Afghan bolanee, stuffed naan flatbread with mash potatoes, lots of chives, butter and spices. Mannn, try bake in oven. Delicious
Thanks for the recipe idea - that sounds amazing!
Lowkey in love 🥰....
I didn't know you could eat the flowers - thanks!
"Chives, Is, Amazing!" (OK - I'm actually riding along with you on that that I think about it now -- chives IS amazing! :-) I dig 'em. (Oh, damn, see what *I* did there? argh....)
Great video
I'm glad you liked it - thanks for the comment !
Good video
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it.
Wonderful garden 💪
Thank you - welcome the channel!
The thing i realized is that if they get too tall and too dense they collapse on themselves and begin to die. Chives grow best in heavily disturbed areas. So even if your not using them, make sure you give them a trim.
Yes - good note!
Trim chop and freeze addt to soup and omelet
thank you for this video! what do I do overwinter if I live in an area with snowy winters? I imagine if they are potted they can continue to grow happily indoors year- round... but if I have some in the ground outdoors how do I prep them for surviving the snow until spring?
Hi Katherine - I'm glad you liked the video!
Yes indoors in pots is one way. They may appear to be gone in winter when conditions are harsh but, in my experience, they show up again in spring :)
The better they are mulched up tight to their roots the more they will survive the winter and do great when spring arrives!
I live in very snowy and cold Iowa and my chives come back every year with absolutely no prepping or protection. Hardy little suckers!
I've had my chive plants for over 12 years now, and I don't do anything. They come back strong every year even in my area of the Midwest (Missouri) where we have extreme weather in both directions. They're super hardy and they pretty much take care of themselves.
I'm going to to plant them again. The last time I somehow trouble from snails on my chives.
Argh - those snails. Yup, try again!
What are the benefits of using coffee bags for mulching?
I just planted my first chive seeds and have little sprouts coming up! Will I need to thin them out (they are in a pot right now) so the don’t overcrowd or just divide them when they are mature like you showed?
Hi Mary - great question.
I'm unsure how densely they're planted. My hunch would be to let them grow and divide up chunks and separate as they get solid root systems.
Can't have too much chives!
My family has had wild onion growing in our back yard in full to partial shade for as long as I can remember. Can these be used as chives?
Hi John - the tops of any edible onion bulb should be useful as food as well. It'll come down to texture and whether you like the flavour.
I'm curious - tell me what you find b/c I've never had wild onion :)
Love your video! You’re de-stressing chives for me. 2 Q’s I still have: a.) why are many of my chives yellow? and b.) do you have to do anything to the seeds if you want to save them for a bit? Thanks!
I'm glad to help ease the stress.
Q1: your soil likely is low on nutrition - specifically nitrogen. Enriching the soil should bring back the deep green.
Q2: to save the seeds they need to be mature / dry / black while still on the plant (they won't ripen further after being removed). I just keep mine in a brown paper bag marked 'chives & the year' that's it!
Sustainable Stace
Thanks - will do. So excited to be finally starting in even on small scale container gardening.
@@SustainableStace what is the cheapest one or simple one to put on the soil to have a nitrogen nutrient?
This works also for garlic chives? I am thinking so .....
Yes, absolutely Monica.
Do these continue to flower through out the summer, or is it a burst of flowers during a specific time of year?
Hi Ryan - welcome to the channel!
Where I live (west coast British Columbia, Canada) my chives often flower at least twice in the season - both early spring and late summer.
BUT it depends a lot on how much I harvest as well.
I've had a bunch of chives growing in the garden by my walkway for years. They have been very healthy, but the past few years have been infiltrated by field grass. So at the beginning of this summer I pulled most of the grass out. I grabbed each stalk of grass very low on the blade, so that the roots came out. The chives looked great. Then they started dying. I lost all of my chives! Makes me wonder if the stress of pulling the grass out damaged the roots of the chives. I did not apply any chemicals or fertilizer or plant food. Your thoughts on this?
Sadness. Sorry to hear about your loss of chives.
It sounds like it was a proven location. Where you live, does the chives generally die off and re-grow in the same location each year?
It seems very odd. I think chives would be able to handle the grass plucking you did.
Do you have any chives seeds from your long time plant?
Nice video, like your info. Question===do you know what Lovage is?
Yes I do. I'm growing some in one of my permaculture gardens.
It's a beautiful plant - easy to share (divide the roots with a shovel) good to look at and good to eat!
@@SustainableStace Thanks for the reply, I am from Europe and we grow it in our gardens. I lived in AZ for 16 years and had no luck growing it there. I moved to CA last year and I am now growing some in my garden. I missed it so much. We use it in salad, soups, stews and I make a onion-garlic-parsley-lovage relish to put on top of our sandwiches. Do you use it for anything else? Appreciate your response.
I'm new to lovage and I use it in salads and cook it up with greens to go with eggs or in stews. You've given me some more ideas! Thank you :)
Do you have any trouble with pill bugs in your raised beds?
Hi Elaine - no I don't. Do you? If so, do you note them harming your produce?
I think pill bugs eat decaying plant matter, but if there's none present, they could do damage. Examine what they eat :)
I have some chives that have flat stems rather than tubluar like onions. Are these as good to use?
Think I found the answer to my question. What I have is garlic chives rather than onion chives.
That's what I was going to suggest !
What are the crocus bags in the garden for
Sorry I don't understand. Can you explain 'crocus bags' ?
I plant onion chives in a pot, its been 5 days, the upper part slowly turns into yellow color then yellow color at the top becomes larger going on lower part....why does this happens? What will i do to stop this and make it green just like the other lower part? Please help ....
Hello Agelli - this is a common challenge. When you transfer the chives they are stressed. They stop putting energy up the stalk and focus on getting their roots established.
You can help the plant by ensuring it has bone meal and some fertilizer so the roots get help and you can trim off the tops / tips of the stalks!
When the roots become happy in their new home then they will start to put energy into the stalks and keep them green!
I totally could hear you were from Canada, ay?🙂
Good catch Jennifer - thanks for commenting Eh!
@@SustainableStace I put a mountain of chives in my teriyaki marinated salmon today... 🐟🐟🌱🌱 have a good one🙂
I'm growing chives but the tips keep getting dry (yellow brownish color) , what can I do to keep then green and pretty?
Hi Chiaka :)
I'm certain this can be remedied!
The brown is likely b/c it's dried out. Once it's brown, it's dead and it won't recover so, it needs to be snipped off.
If it's yellow, that likely means its either
a) drying out (on its way to becoming brown) - you know how to fix this :) OR
b) there's a lack of sufficient soil or nitrogen - which would be lots of tips staying yellow but not going brown quickly. Just make sure soil depth is sufficient and there's nutrition provided.
Good luck!
Do they required full sun or in the shade?
They are great in full sun but they're quite adaptable and they'll handle partial sun as well.
Where do you get the coffee sacks?
Hi Josiah - that's a great question.
We own a coffee company - importing and roasting - so I have unlimited access to sacks.
Our company is www.levelground.com
The sacks are truly an amazing resource for gardening!
Likely if you check with a roaster near to you, you'll find access to some :)
I put a bunch of herbs including chives in straight top soil the other day not knowing I needed to add stuff we will see hot this turns out
You never know - they may do great!
I have been growing a large amount of vegetables in my garden for over 10 years. This year, to my surprise, all my chives are covered in brown spots & look unfit for food. It's probably some kind of disease, although you pointed out that diseases don't attack chives. Maybe you know the reason for this "tragedy ", because it's a real disaster for me. Thanks.
Hello Sofia - aargh. I'm sorry to hear this.
I'm wondering if the attached article explains your situation: havegarden.com/why-chive-plant-dying/#:~:text=Chive%20plant%20turns%20brown%20when,the%20leaves%20of%20Chive%20plants.
I'm curious to know more and to have you share with me.
warmly :)
what kind of fertilizer you use for chives
Good question. I often don't fertilize chives and it still does well.
When I do, I use a simple mix that I make myself: it's 4 parts alfalfa meal & 1 part each of: Kelp meal, bone meal and lime.
Here's my video about that: ruclips.net/video/PmqbhUNDTaU/видео.html
Where is your garden located? State and hardiness zone?
We live in British Columbia, Canada - a wee bit north of Seattle WA. Zone 8
Ok, I'm on the border of 10a and 10b in Florida.
Oh, that means you can grow things we cannot even dream of!
i have an exam next week, but i need to know this info
Good priorities!
Wish my chives were this big. I try and I try each year, but they are small as can be. I'm growing indoor by the way, no outdoor garden for me.
hmm - i wonder if it's your soil that's causing the small size OR perhaps variety of chives is naturally smaller. What do you think?
@@SustainableStace I use the same soil as my basil, which grow larger than life itself :) Maybe I'm not giving the chives enough fertilizer or something.
Ohhhh I think I figured it out, apparently chives are multi year plants - Basil is not, so that's why. I only grow basil :) I've always figured plants as annual, but apparently chives come back after winter and stronger even. This is definitely why mine are so tiny and useless.
Shives are very good for the liver, right?
I don't know.
Do the chives change in taste once the plant grows flowers? I often hear people say harvesting before flowering on a lot of plants because the energy for growth goes to the flowers instead of the foliage and I was wondering if chives were the same. I wouldn't mind having a group of flowering chives and regular chives :)
You've got the point!
Once the flowers are formed the stalks' texture becomes woody and starts to dry out.
Often, on the same clump, I'll harvest half of the stalks so that they continue to produce fresh/greens while the other half I allow the flowers to fully develop.
You can have the best of both worlds!
@@SustainableStace That's awesome, thank you!
Is chives an ordinary garlic that is grown until it produces leaves?
that's a good question!
chives and garlic are different.
chives only produces food above ground while the garlic (usually) is grown to produce a bulb of multiple cloves underground.
chives, no matter how long you grow it, will not produce a bulb (like an onion or garlic) below ground
however, there is another variety of plant called 'garlic chives' which grows/behaves like chives BUT the green stems have the flavour of garlic !
@@SustainableStace Ok thanks 😊✨
My wife and I just watched your video . . . if you Harvest the Chives and cut the Flowers off when they are still Purple - will the Flowers still Mature to the "White " color ? To get seeds ? Or should I just get rid of the Flowers ?
Great question !
Short answer - nope
Usually maturation to seeds stops at harvest.
So, if you cut the chives stalk I think it will NOT mature to a harvestable seed.
If you want chives and not chives seeds . . .you're better to cut the stalks that are forming flowers so it can grow new stalks!
@@SustainableStace I understand . . . Thank you for letting me know . . .
I grow mine in a pot but they always grow very thin and are useless to eat is there any reason for this..?????
Thanks for your question - my first suggestion is in 2 parts: I'd consider getting/using new soil and ensuring your pot is large/larger than your current one to ensure that nutrients, drainage, root growth are optimized.
Happy Growing !
Did I miss the point about when to grow them esp. from seed?
Hi Enuf Ots !
Around the 2:29 mark I show harvesting the seeds.
As for WHEN to plant the seeds - SPRING time is best. They are quite hardy seeds and will usually germinate easily when frost is past and the soil starts to warm up.
Good luck :)
@@SustainableStace Great! Thanks for your quick response. Can't wait!
I don’t know why you need to select, just cut the branch from nearest base . Its will regrow very fast. After all you don’t use chives in everyday cooking 😂
Chive talking. ;-)
Is it chives is garlic ?
Are you wondering 'Is this garlic chives?' NOPE, it's not.
You didn't say anything about starting from seeds
That would be a good addition to the video. They are super easy to start from seed. And, each year stalks that are left alone produce beautiful mauve flowers that turn into seed clusters!
@@SustainableStace pleeeeeeeeeeease do a video. Ive planted seeds a month ago and nothing. I love chives on pretty much any meal and i might as well grow my own. The flower is a Bonus 😍😍
Mine never gets flowers
That's suspicious. Have you had the plant for more than a full year?
@@SustainableStace ohh nope that could be why. How long did yours take to flower?
@@persadsanjay Probably second year it will bring flowers, at least my chives had flowers on 2nd year after planting from seeds :)
@@TheDeldax . Yes. I planted mine last year and this year they produced flowers in the spring. I’m letting some go to seed.
Honestly the easiest way to get more chives is to not do anything; they'll take over any garden space they can.
Perhaps you've got gifted chives! They don't grow that way for me.
They stay in clumps and hold their own, nothing more.
But . . . if you're letting them go to seed I can understand their spread.
@@SustainableStace I moved into a place this spring where the chives have spread from their original planter into the nighboring beds. My hands and gloves smelled very onion-y after I finished clearing them out. Still finding new sprouts in those beds every time I come by 😅 I love chives but not with every meal!