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Chives Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

A perennial herb forming grassy clumps, snipped as needed through the season and divided every few years in pots or beds.

Chives

Allium schoenoprasum

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

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Guides

Pests and diseases (1)

Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.

Southern Blight

Disease

The stem rots at soil level and white silky mycelium spreads over the crown and the surrounding soil surface. Brown sclerotia the size of rapeseed then form and the plant wilts and dies rapidly.

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