12 Compelling Reasons To Grow Chives + How To Use Them

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By Susan Patterson

You don’t have to sport a green thumb to grow chives (allium schoenoprasum), they are almost a fail-proof crop and will build up your confidence to grow a variety of herbs. Chives, a relative to the onion, are hardy, drought tolerant perennials. They grow to be 8-20 inches high in mounds via underground bulbs.

Not only are chives pretty with their dainty purple blossoms and thin green hollow stalks, but they are amazingly delicious. What’s more, the entire plant including the leaves, blossoms, and even bulbs are edible.

Chives have a delicate, not overpowering onion flavor, and hollow green leaves …read more

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