I just started some garlic chives from seed. They have sprouted and are quite healthy looking little plants.

I always understood that garlic chives have flat leaves unlike the regular chives which have the round leaves. What I have coming up has the round leaves just like the garden chives I have out in the garden already.

Do garlic chive leaves start out flat or do I have to wait for the next set of leaves or what? Or am I just growing more plain old chives?

This is also my first year growing garlic chives from seed....I got mine from Johnny's.

Mine are just like yours....so I guess we wait until the plants are older???

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Mine are just like yours....so I guess we wait until the plants are older???

And if you end up needing garlic chive seed let me know. I leave mine to bloom because so many things love to pollinate them. I always have seed at the end of the year.I don't know about shipping plants but I'll have tons of new ones this year too!

My garlic chives have always been round, but they never got very big,DD.

Mine have always been flat, but I have had them so long that I can't remember if they started out round from seed! They also get very large, around 18" tall. Mine are coming up now, and don't look very flat, but they are only about 3" tall, so maybe it just takes time.

Dave

If my mind serves me right.. the garlic chives coming up from seed look like regular chives until say mid summer or so.

Bluestreak-I would love some garlic chive seeds if you still have some. Would you like to trade?

I bought my garlic chive seed yesterday, just waiting for the weather to get a little warmer.
I think I will plant them in a wash tub since they are so invasive.
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They start round (I started seeds for both and while the seeds themselves looked different, the seedlings are identical except that the garlic chives are a bit larger.)

Thanks for the info. They're doing great!

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Originally posted by puttgirl:
Bluestreak-I would love some garlic chive seeds if you still have some. Would you like to trade?

I am so sorry puttgirl I didn't remember to check back up on this post!

I'm sorry but I don't have anymore garlic chive seed right now but will have it come fall again no problem.

I just found my stash of garlic chive seeds. The reason why bluestreak doesn't have anymore is because he sent me a bucketful! I will share them with any of you needing some. You can email me at: oh2fly@clearwiredotnet (Change the dot to.)
Just how invasive are they anyway??? This is my first cruise with them.

They aren't too bad if you don't let them go to seed.If they do make alot of friends!!!

I gave large drink cups full of chives to all my co-workers that wanted them last year because I slipped up and let them drop their seed.

I haven't ever found them invasive (but I just have the regular chives in my garden right now).

I do let mine go to seed...but those little seedlings grow slowly, and have very fibrous roots, so they are easy to pull out. No tap root.

So I really don't know why do many people call them invasive....maybe it is just my climate????

Alaskan, I agree. My regular chives go to seed and don't take over at all. The clump just gets a little bigger. I divide it now and then and get more to share or plant elsewhere.