Chives Reviews

This week-end I have been busy taking advantage of the wonderful weather and tidying up my herb garden. One of my favorite plants in there are the chives. These are very delicate plants when they first come up - not to look after but to look at. They have very long thin almost tube like leaves that end in a bit of a point. Quick word of ...  Read the complete review

One of my early memories from when I was a little girl, was helping my chinese grandmothers friends, the 'chews' as I thought they were called, pick vegetables and herbs in their huge back garden. I remember being pretty taken with the chives, especially when they told me the flowers were edible - round I walked with bits of chive hanging out of ...  Read the complete review

Chives are very versatile and I often use them in my cooking. One of my favourite uses for them is to blend chopped chives into some cream cheese and add some finely minced garlic and just a pinch of garlic powder, mix it all together well and you have a very tasty topping for crackers, to use on canapes or in a sandwich. The ...  Read the complete review

I like to use fresh herbs when I cook and chives are one I wouldn’t be without. Chives are easy to grow, taste delicious and look attractive in the garden too. A bit about chives. **************** Allium Schoenoprasum to give Chives its Latin name, have been cultivated for thousands of years. The ancient Chinese are ...  Read the complete review

Chives is one of my favourite herbs because of its fresh flavour, and because it's so easy to use. I like foodstuffs which don't require cooking. HOW TO EAT IT I simply pick some chives from my herb garden or my window sill, chop it up with a knive, and sprinkle it generously on top of just about anything (except on ...  Read the complete review

Yes I have told you how I grow basil and what I do with it now I shall tell you how I grow chives, and some of my favourite recipes. I find chives a very use full herb to grow. You will find chives very easy to grow and very handy to have. Chives add just that something little extra to cheese, eggs, and summer salads. You can grow chives ...  Read the complete review

Chives are a very nice herb. Planted in a pot, they are decorative. They also have a pretty purple flower. It is a rather unusual flower as it looks like a purple puffball. Both leaves and flower are edible. You can use them in salads, omelettes, soups and with meats. The normal way to use the leaves is to chop them into ...  Read the complete review

Chives – Allium schoenoprasum - are an indispensable perennial herb which should be grown in all gardens. Related to the onion, chives have aromatic, hollow, grass like leaves growing to 6 –8” high and beautiful purple pom pom flower heads in summer. Chives and some other similar alliums are natives of the orient. Some ...  Read the complete review

Chives (Allium schoenoprasum) are native to the Northern Hemisphere. They are an exceedingly easy perennial to grow and if left to flower (which also looks nice in a flower border) it will re-seed readily, you'll be finding new chive plants sprouting in the most unlikely places all over the garden (you may wish to watch that!). Usually ...  Read the complete review

Chives are probably one of the most well known and well used herbs. Chives have an onion taste but it's not as strong as a normal onion and hence is used where an onion would be overpowering. Chives have grass like leaves and they grow in clumps and can be used from February till November. It used to be found wild in the UK but I have ...  Read the complete review

Chives are very easy to grow. You can sow the seeds inside, or in greenhouse at any time of year. I find that sowing them in a plastic propagator is the best method. Keep them in it until they are big enough to transplant into individual pots. Once there is no more danger of frost you can plant them outside or leave them in pots. Chives ...  Read the complete review