- How and how often should the herb be watered?
- Do chives need fertilizer?
- Are overwintering measures necessary?
- How can the herb be propagated?
- How and when to cut chives?
- tips and tricks
Chopped garlic is still little known in the herb garden. But this herb is easy to plant, has no special location requirements and tastes delicious. What care does it require?
How and how often should the herb be watered?
This herb loves evenly moist soil. If it is in a pot, it should be watered daily in summer. On hot days, it is best to apply it directly to the root area in the morning and evening. Growing in the bed, the chives usually get enough rain. It should only be watered in dry times.
Do chives need fertilizer?
If chives grow in pots or balcony boxes, they should be supplied with fertilizer regularly. In the bed, it is sufficient to enrich the soil with compost before planting. Organic fertilizer such as guano (€121.99) is recommended for fertilizing in pots or balcony boxes. Only if you do not want to eat the herb but plant it as an ornament, mineral fertilizer can be an alternative.
Are overwintering measures necessary?
Chives are perennial. Its plant parts above the ground die off and its root system survives and is hardy. In sheltered locations, the plant tolerates winter temperatures down to -17 °C and temperatures down to -12 °C in unprotected locations.
How can the herb be propagated?
If you have a lot of time and patience, chives can easily be propagated by sowing. Much faster and also simple and successful is the division of the herb. It is even recommended to divide it every three years so that it preserves its potency.
Chives tolerate sharing very well. That's how it's done:
- Time: in spring after budding or in late summer
- Dig up the plant generously
- share plant
- insert new plants at a distance of 30 cm
- pour well
How and when to cut chives?
Cutting the chives is necessary to harvest the leaves and flowers. From March until the first frost in autumn, the parts of the plant above the ground can be cut off and used as needed.
tips and tricks
In order not to overload the chives, but to preserve its growth potential, the inflorescences should be cut off quickly. Seed formation, in particular, costs the plant a lot of energy.