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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GrowingHarvest
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)
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.