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Yum Alert: How to Grow Your Own Garlic Chives

Written by emilyc

It’s always fun and satisfying to grow something yourself and then cook with it. It’s also fun and satisfying when you find a type of garlic that doesn’t have a lingering taste that lasts for 3,000 hours. This is exactly why growing your own garlic chives is a worthy – not to mention super simple – weekend project. Garlic chives are perfect on top of baked potatoes, salads, dips, or as a garnish for hummus or guacamole.

First, place a whole garlic bulb or just a budding clove in a clear cup or bowl, adding just enough water to cover the bottom of the cup (don’t let the cloves become submerged). You should start seeing roots after a few days.

Change the water every couple of days, or when it starts to look cloudy. Also, be sure your cloves are getting plenty of light.

You can harvest your chives once the shoots reach 3 inches tall. There should be 2 to 3 shoots growing out of each clove. To harvest, simply snip off whatever amount you need using sharp kitchen shears.

 

Image and method via Simple Daily Recipes

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emilyc

Emily is a New Yorker trapped in a Floridian's body and loves every minute of her big city life. With a major in international business and years of being surrounded by ill-fitting suits and all the wrong shoes, she learned that the importance of fashion needs to be communicated to the world. To her, fashion is on the same level as charity work and feeding hungry children. Emily can be found frolicking the streets of her gayborhood enjoying the off-color humor of the gays.

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