Planting chives

Everything you need to know about how to grow chives in your herb garden. Including planting, caring and harvesting chives.

Wondering what grows best with chives? Learn which vegetables and herbs make the perfect chives companion plants and what you should avoid planting nearby.

I've learned a few key things over the last few years about growing chives in my garden so here's how to grow chives.

Companion planting chives with these herbs, vegetables, and flowers helps support a healthy garden and a healthy harvest. In addition to promoting species richness in a garden, chives attract beneficial insects that can reduce pest populations, and they give off a strong scent that can help protect nearby plants from pests. Here's a guide to chive companion planting, including the best herbs, veg, and flowers to plant with chives-- and what not to plant with them.

Knowing how to harvest chives properly can provide months of this fresh, tasty herb. Discover the best techniques for chive harvesting here.

Harvesting chives is easy, but a little different than other herbs. Learn when and how to pick the leaves or flowers for the best harvest.

Figure out which companion plants thrive next to cilantro in an herb and vegetable garden. Plants such as chives, marigolds, chamomile, and chervil attract beneficial insects like hoverflies while rosemary competes for resources with cilantro. #companion #planting #cilantro

Learn the Do's & Don'ts to Growing Chives with this Beginner's Guide to Growing Chives! There are 10 Proven Tips for Growing Bigger, Better, and more Flavorful Chives. #chives #gardening #vegetables #herbs

Regular pruning is an important part of successfully growing chives in your garden, and it’s easy. Benefits include keeping your plant looking nice, and preventing them from spreading all over the place. Learn everything you need to know about trimming chives. Including what to do after they flower, when to trim chive plants and remove the flowers, which tools and techniques to use for pruning and deadheading chives, and exactly how to cut back chives, step by step. #herbgardening #gardening

Tasty chives are incredibly easy and pretty to grow amongst everything from herbs and vegetables to roses. But they also have amazing hidden powers. Chives are great for us - restoring gut health - but