My 2 large clumps of chives have flowered, do I cut off the flowers, or cut the whole plant to ground level and if so will new growth appear this season.
I leave the flowers for the bees and pick some for salads, but as soon as they start to become dry and papery I cut the chives back to get fresh growth ... otherwise the chives turn tough and unpleasant to eat.
It also helps encourage the chives to multiply by forming offset 'bulbs' rather than letting them produce seeds.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Yes, as Pansy says, cut them right down, give them a good watering and they'll regrow.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks for that - I was wondering what to do with them. I hadn't realised that chive flowers were so pretty.
Oh - mine have also flowered. Are we not meant to leave the flowers on there?
I saw Kelly Brook eating the chive flowers on TV on Chelsea.
I leave the flowers for the bees and pick some for salads, but as soon as they start to become dry and papery I cut the chives back to get fresh growth ... otherwise the chives turn tough and unpleasant to eat.
It also helps encourage the chives to multiply by forming offset 'bulbs' rather than letting them produce seeds.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you everyone.
Also thank you everyone
We eat them as well, mine have turned rusty so time to cut them right down and start again,