What is garlic chives?
Garlic chives are a tasty, healthy and versatile herb. It is also called Chinese chives or Chinese leeks. It has beautiful grass-green, long flat stems and it blooms with small, white flowers. It has a nice garlicky flavour, but it does not taste as strong as garlic. Garlic chives have several medicinal uses. Garlic chives are diuretic and it stimulates appetite and digestion. It has similar effects to its cousin Garlic, but with a milder flavour. Garlic chives are also used in cooking in combination with eggs, cheese, pork, prawns, potatoes, butter and in all kinds of soups. Garlic chives are also widely used in sauces, stews, stir-fries, oven dishes, soups, salads and in herb butter. Garlic Chives are also added as a seasoning to rice and noodle dishes. It is a very popular and widely used spice in Asian cuisines. In countries like Japan and China, not only the leaf stalks are used in various dishes, but also the stalks with the flowers and even the root tubers. To avoid loss of flavour, the leaves of Garlic Chives should be added to recipes at the last minute and not cooked with them. This does not apply to the flower stalks with the unopened flower , as well as the stems with the flowers and even the root tubers. These are prepared and eaten as vegetables in Asia. The stems are then steamed or stir-fried together with other ingredients as a (side) dish. Fresh garlic chives do have a much better flavour than dried garlic chives. Garlic chives are thus used in many different ways.Garlic chives are a perennial plant. The leaves die during the winter, but they sprout again the following spring.
Using garlic chives
Garlic chives originated in China. Nowadays, it is grown in a lot of countries.
1. Garlic chives have several medicinal uses. It is diuretic and it stimulates appetite and digestion.
2. Garlic chives are widely used in Asian cuisines.
3. Garlic chives are also called Chinese chives and Chinese leeks.
4. Garlic chives taste best when used fresh. It can be dried, but this causes a lot of flavour loss.
5. Garlic chives are delicious with pork, prawns, eggs, cheese, potatoes, butter and in soups.
6. Garlic chives are a hardy, perennial and easy to grow and maintain herbal plant.
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Indoor sowing: March - April
Outdoor sowing: May - September
Germination: 10 - 14 days
Germinationtemp.: 18 - 20°C
Sowing depth: 4 - 6 mm
Plant spacing: 45 cm
Planting position: Warm and sunny
Days till harvest: 120 - 130
Sow indoors from the beginning of March. Sow in seperate pots or seedtrays filled with moist potting soil. Sow the seeds shallow and sparsely and divide the seeds. Don't sow the seeds to close together. Cover the seeds with a very thin layer of soil. Keep moist and warm. The seeds germinate in 2 - 3 weeks. Put the pots or trays with seeds approx. 1 month outdoors with shelter against wind and rain, when the seeds don't germinate in a couple of weeks. The cold will help with the germination. Take the pots or trays indoors after 1 month to germinate. Put the seedlings outdoors on a sunny plot with some shelter against the wind from the first of May.
Sow outdoors from the beginning of May. Sow shallow and press the seeds gently in the soil. Don't sow the seeds very close together. Cover the seeds with a thin layer of soil. The seeds should germinate after approx. 2 - 3 weeks. Thin the seedlings when they're approx. 5 cm in size. Thin to 45 cm apart. Cut the leaves regurlarly to promote the growing of new and fresh leaves. Remove the flowerstems to encourage new growth. The leaves of this hardy perennial die of in winter. The new leaves start to grow again in the early spring. Harvest the leaves when they're approx. 15 cm in size. Garlic chives can also be grown in large pots. Non hardy perennial.
