How to Grow Chives: Growing Guide to Planting, Care & Harvest

Allium schoenoprasum

Growing calendar

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

Guides

• How to Grow Chives from Seed: Slow Germination and Multi-Sown Clumps
• Chive Plant Care: Watering, Feeding and Keeping the Clump Productive
• How to Harvest Chives: Cut the Whole Clump, Not the Tips
• Chives Through the Year: From Dormancy to the Last Autumn Cut
• Chive Pests and Diseases: Thrips, Rust, Mildew and Winter Rot
• How to Divide Chives: Splitting the Clump Before the Middle Dies Out

Pests and diseases (1)

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.