Kobold Garlic Chives seed Allium tuberosum
LATIN NAME: Allium tuberosum
COMMON NAME: Garlic Chives
No herb sits closer to the kitchen door than the garlic chive, and the flat, pale leaves bring the fine, mild garlic note without the fuss. The clump-forming, perennial plant carries the flat, strap-like, dark-green leaves and the round heads of the small, white, starry flowers through the late summer, and both the leaves and the buds are fine eating. The plant is a steady, generous presence of the herb bed, the border and the pot, giving its pickings through the warm season. It is a plant of the open, sunny, well-drained ground.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The garlic chive is a steady subject of the plant science, sitting in the onion group and studied for the fine, garlic-mild leaves. The chemistry of the leaves and the flower buds, which carry the mild garlic note, has been studied steadily, and it keeps showing up in the work on the culinary alliums, the perennial herbs and the members of the onion family. The round heads of the white flowers and the clump-forming habit have also made it a fine garden plant, and the garlic chive is a regular subject of the studies of the mild-garlic herbs of the kitchen garden.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
The garlic chive is a fine, generous herb of the kitchen and the border. The flat, strap-like leaves are snipped into the stir-fries, the dumplings, the salads and the eggs, giving the fine, mild garlic note without the heat, and the round heads of the white, starry flowers are picked young for the flowerbud pickles. The clump multiplies year after year, giving its pickings through the warm season from one planting. It has been written up in the culinary and the horticultural papers for the flat leaves and the mild garlic ways, and it is a fine, generous plant of the open, sunny, well-drained garden.
The garlic chive is one of the steady herbs of the kitchen door, and the round heads of the white, starry flowers open through the late summer. The flat leaves keep their fine, mild garlic note through the warm season.
To grow the garlic chive from seed, sow the small, black seeds into drills in the open ground in the cool season, half a centimetre deep, keep the drills moist and thin the seedlings out. The seedlings show themselves within a couple of weeks and grow on fast. With the sun and the well-drained ground, the flat leaves will be ready for the kitchen through the warm season.
Highflowers
Uses: Culinary / Medicinal
Kobold is a more compact, more uniform variety of garlic chives. White flowers. Ht. 30cm/1ft.