It is best not to allow the chives to flower. Unless you just like the flowers, because once the chives flower, the leaves will be tough.

Also, when you do that and they reseed and new plants are generally inferior to the original plant.

What I have done many times, is just to keep snipping and using the chives, they will keep growing. Dig them up and bring them in when the weather gets cold.

If you don't want to do that, you could try just chopping them completely down before they flower. I have had some that came back that way too.

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All is silent...Southern Cross

Pepperhead,

Just plant them...

I planted one clump of them a few years ago..
Haven't done a thing to them, except nibble on them...
Haven't watered them, havent' clipped them,
nothing..
I now have 7 clumps of them......plus two little clumps just starting..

When the flower goes to seed, where ever that seed head falls down, or the wind blows the seed from the flower head, you'll get baby chive clumps growing around it..
*providing theres' just dirt around the clump area and nothing is done to the area around it.*

Weezie

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Weezie

Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have
done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
- Bible - Hebrews 13:2





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