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Chives

Flavorful, Pest-Repelling Herbs for Your Garden

Chives provide a mild onion flavor, are rich in vitamins, and attract bees with beautiful purple blooms. Ideal for companion planting in herb gardens, vegetable patches, and permaculture systems.


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Chives (Allium schoenoprasum)

Chives are a hardy, perennial herb belonging to the onion family, prized for their mild onion flavor and attractive, edible purple flowers. Known for both culinary and medicinal uses, chives are an easy-to-grow addition to any herb garden, vegetable patch, or food forest. They are great companion plants, helping to repel pests and attract pollinators, making them a valuable choice in permaculture and organic gardening systems.

Key Characteristics:

  • Culinary Uses: The leaves, stems, and flowers of chives are edible, adding a mild onion flavor to dishes. They are commonly used in soups, salads, dips, and as a garnish, while the flowers make a beautiful addition to salads or as a garnish.
  • Medicinal Benefits: Chives are rich in vitamins A and C and have been used traditionally for digestive support, to boost the immune system, and as an anti-inflammatory. They are also believed to have mild antibacterial properties.
  • Pollinator-Friendly: Chives bloom in early summer, attracting bees and other pollinators with their lavender-purple flowers, providing an early source of nectar.
  • Companion Planting: Chives help repel common garden pests like aphids, Japanese beetles, and carrot rust flies. They are excellent companions for tomatoes, carrots, and fruit trees, making them a valuable plant in permaculture and organic gardening.
  • Low-Maintenance & Great for Small Spaces: Once established, chives are highly drought-tolerant and require minimal maintenance, thriving in well-drained soil with full sun to partial shade.

Product Details:

  • Native Range: Northern Hemisphere (Europe, Asia, North America)
  • Life Cycle: Perennial
  • Sun Requirements: Full sun to partial shade
  • Soil Requirements: Well-drained, medium-moisture soil
  • Mature Height: 12-18 inches
  • Bloom Time: Early summer (May to June)
  • Bloom Color: Lavender, purple
  • USDA Hardiness Zones: 3-9

Chives are a versatile, low-maintenance herb that offers culinary, medicinal, and ecological benefits, making them a must-have in any garden or permaculture system.

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Chives

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Chives (Allium schoenoprasum)

Chives are a hardy, perennial herb belonging to the onion family, prized for their mild onion flavor and attractive, edible purple flowers. Known for both culinary and medicinal uses, chives are an easy-to-grow addition to any herb garden, vegetable patch, or food forest. They are great companion plants, helping to repel pests and attract pollinators, making them a valuable choice in permaculture and organic gardening systems.

Key Characteristics:

Product Details:

Chives are a versatile, low-maintenance herb that offers culinary, medicinal, and ecological benefits, making them a must-have in any garden or permaculture system.

Pot size

  • 2.5" pot
  • Quart
  • 1 Gallon
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