Organic Garlic Chives Plants

Garlic chives look like an onion chives but taste more like garlic (look for flat leaves instead of round hollow ones). Garlic chives in the garden are also often referred to as Chinese chives plants and as such was first recorded between 4,000-5,000 years ago in China, where the leaves are ‘blanched,’ or covered with a clay pot in the spring for a few weeks, and then picked and cooked or steamed for about 4 minutes.  Garlic chives are also used as a culinary herb, and the flowers can be eaten in salads.  Attracts beneficial insects.

Garlic chives make a lovely flower in a border planting or container garden and work well in the herb garden and also to deter pests. They can be planted along a path or as a dense ground cover too. The small, star-shaped flowers are usually cream-colored and born on sturdy stems in June.