Allium tuberosum
Description:
• Description: Garlic chives is an allium grown for its leaves. The tough, fibrous bulb is elongate and originates from a stout rhizome. The gray-green leaves are flat and wide. The plant grows in a clump and the leaves bend down under their own weight. The showy inflorescence stands above the leaf clump on 1-2 ft (0.3-0.6 m) stalks and consists of a rounded umbel, 2 in (5 cm) across, with many small creamy white, star-shaped, fragrant flowers.
• Culture: Garlic chives is a fast growing and fast spreading perennial that needs to be divided every 3-4 years. Maintain it as a permanent crop and harvest individual leaves as needed.
• Moisture: Garlic chives can tolerate drought and thrives with normal garden watering.
• The unique flavor of garlic chives is both sweet and garlicky and is used in salads, stir fries and soups. It goes well also in egg dishes and with fish.
