Gardening with Wilson

During my gardening talk delivered last week, I introduced Chinese chives as one vegetable that everyone should grow. Chinese chives is not a vegetable that appeal to everyone’s taste but I am sure it does have its own allure as an ornamental plant. Hence it is very at home in a potager garden.

This vegetable should be grown in large numbers in a bed. The plant is grass-like and it looks best when it is in flower. Small, white flowers are borne on umbels and are displayed in erect stalks held above the mass of green tape-like leaves. Do you know that the flower buds are edible too? They can be found on sale in our local wet markets!

It is best grown in well-drained soil that is enriched with organic matter and fertile. It tolerate some shade and seems to do quite well in Singapore when it is grown under semi-shaded conditions.

I would recommend one to buy a pot of Chinese chives when they are available in pots in the nursery. One can wait for the clump to grow up and then divide to get more plants. This is an easier and surely a less painful method compared to growing them from seeds.