Garlic Chives Seeds

Grow fresh garlic-flavoured leaves for soups and stir-fries with garlic chives. This perennial herb makes flat leaves and white flowers, without needing a garlic-bulb harvest.

Ready to grow your own garlic chives? Follow our step-by-step Garlic Chives Grow Guide for germination, clump spacing and cutting advice.

Quick Grow Facts

• Botanical name: Allium tuberosum; garlic chives, with no named cultivar specified.
• Seed form: Raw seed; 2 g, 20 g or 100 g. Treatment status is not confirmed.
• Sowing season and position: Choose mild conditions for establishment; full sun and free drainage. Protect young plants from frost and severe heat.
• Depth and germination: Cover 5 mm deep; label guide 7–14 days. General seed-medium target 18–21°C.
• Spacing: 15–20 cm between garden clumps; choose 20 cm for a lasting clump and divide as it expands.
• Growth form and height: Clumping perennial; foliage about 40–50 cm, with taller flower stems. No routine pinching or support.
• Harvest and flowers: Pick a few leaves once the clump is firmly rooted and growing strongly. The label’s 60-day estimate has an unspecified starting point. White flowers usually appear in late summer to autumn; first-year flowering is possible, not guaranteed.

Growing Notes

Use clean seed mix, keep sowings evenly moist and harden tray-grown plants off before planting out. Water the root zone, avoid waterlogging and feed modestly during active growth. Do not harvest weak seedlings.

Seed safety: Raw does not mean untreated. Do not eat this sowing seed or use it for sprouts or microgreens. Follow the current packet’s safety instructions. Keep plants away from pets.

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