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Chives Picture
This chives picture shows a lovely lush green growth of the herb and will help you identify it. They are very useful, having a delicate onion flavor which doesn't overwhelm the taste of other foods. You use them by simply snipping the long leaves into pieces with scissors or chopping with a knife. Mix them in with cream cheese to give a delicate onion flavour - use this to make a sandwich or celery boats where you cut 2 inch lenghts of celery and fill them with the cream cheese mixture - makes a good buffet finger food. Snip a few over roasted vegetables for the last 5 or 10 minutes of cooking to add some extra flavour. They are very easy to grow. You can grow them from seed or beg a few bulbs from a fellow gardener whose clump has got overcrowded. If your clump has become weed infested, then you need to dig it up and tease the bulbs apart. Do this gently, removing the weeds as you go. You then replant the chives in clumps, firm down the soil with your foot and water well. They are hardy perennials and will come up year after year. Divide them when they get overcrowded - you can either replant them in your own garden or pot them up and either give them away or sell them. See growing herbs for profit for more ideas of what herbs you could grow for general sale.
For an explanation of gardening terms that you might not understand, please check out the Growers Dictionary section. I found that I was either skimping on explanations or giving too much information on the individual pages so I have posted all relevant terms in one section - if there's anything you need to know, please drop me an email.
Chives Picture - to Growing Herbs
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