Thank you for sharing your method of preserve chives. I planted my chives 10 years ago. Today, it spread with its seeds all over my garden and outside of my garden. I used to make egg pancake or soup with chives, but not sure what to do each year with so many of them. I have been cutting them out to keep them from seeding and make compost. Today, I watched your video and others. I will try to preserve them. Your chives looks like wild garlic/onion. We have lots of wild garlic around our road sides. They smell like garlic, not smelly like chives. The only draw back is the wild garlic only growth one season. My garlic chives growth all year.
Oh my gosh, don't throw the flower buds away!!! They are delicious in a stir fry, I add them to omelets, throw them in soup, they are wonderful. I eat garlic and onion flower heads, as well as chives. They are little bites of flavor, with a pleasant texture if you only slightly cook them. when I have enough of them, I add them to another veggies, like asparagus and serve them as a side. If they are large, I cut them in half, so they cook evenly with the small ones. Added them to veggie fritters just two days ago! Try them! You will like them!
@@SuffolkSusie Glad you liked the tip Susie...here is another treat only gardeners get to eat...the flower heads that sprout on your Kale plants towards the end of the season. I harvest loads of them off my plants and they are delicious fried in butter, or a stir fry. Keep harvesting them and the plant will keep cranking them out. You will get a lot of yummy veggies, that you will never find in a store! Hope you try them!🥬
PS, I harvest them BEFORE they turn into yellow flowers. They are more succulent then, but once they turn into flowers, you can still add them to salads, just the flowers, as the stem gets tough by then. Experiment!
Chives not only come back but they volunteer all over, particularly if you aren't watching the flowers as carefully as you should. Thank you for this wonderful tutorial.
I planted chives for the 1st time. I mainly grew them so I will have chives to use in my sausage dressing at Thanksgiving. They are so expensive to buy at that time of year. Your video has helped me decide how to preserve them. I also think I will try using them in other dishes because now I can afford to do so.
Hi Susie, I love everything. Your purple flowers are so pretty. Your chives look so good. Thanks for the great chive preserving tip. Susie. I love it. I have some herb scissors too lol. You just shared with me what they were lol. Chives do smell amazing, I love it...TFS👋🏾🥰👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️They are beautiful
After draining your “salad”, place in a muslin tea towel, take it outside and use a brief swing motion to create centrifugal force. Quick and easy to “spin” out almost all the water After breaking two spinners I went back to the tea towel method which is fast and easy.
Thanks for the great info, instructions, and tips! So very useful! My chives are thriving and massive, and thanks to you I now know how to harvest and dry them!
Nice! I have never seen the herb scissors before but now I want one. Just started learning to grow herbs this year, and my chive plants grew like crazy. Loved your video -- thanks!
Thanks for showing how easy this can be. I have the herb scissors and really like them, but they are a few years old now and seem to be getting dull. Have you ever needed to sharpen yours? I'm wondering if that is even possible since they are not connected with a removable screw. What's your method?
That's a great idea and I love those herb scissors. I have a few chives come up in a planter on my balcony each year and they take forever to cut up with a knife. They're great in potato salad but dried ones will be super easy for soups. Thank you. :)
Would be good to know the purpose of the vinegar rinse & why it’s better than straight water. I sometimes do this for store bought produce but never garden grown,
Hi Susie chives are one of my personal favourites and val does them virtually the same as you from what I've seen , we like cream cheese bagels with chives .😋😋
i have a farm school they learn how to grow and harvest the seeds and grow from them the exit year too they learn to harvest and dry their herds to make spices from them too i gown learning all of this also i was put up for adoption when i was born my great-great-grandparents adopted me I am the only one did gown a garden and use it too now the children have got the taste of growing a garden and have the harvest from it to learn to collect the seeds too and to replant them exit year too they do have to take notice of the gardens too they learn to spell and write reports in that too the first year student struggle first few months you will see them learn to spell or do the math to
Okay the parts u call flowers, I’m not the professional gardener, but I was told those parts are the seeds for new/more chives. I was going to plant some this year, should we leave some of the flowered stems unharvested ? Also, L💖VE the cement block.
If you want more plants then allow a few flowers to mature. The seeds spread like crazy or you can put tulle bags around the mature blossom (after pollination) to capture the seeds
Herb Scissors; www.amazon.com/Scissors-Stainless-Cleaning; I do have a low monotone voice... I have to remember to speak up. Thank you so much for visiting.
HI for the responsable concern about remove bugs from vegetabl, a common reason for washing them with vinegar. It's always good to to take reprecautins fo food safelty!
