How Does Garlic Chives Propagate? Common Propagation Methods and Key Technical Points

Garlic chives are a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Allium in the Liliaceae family, and one of our common vegetables. It is a lazy person's vegetable: plant it once and you can harvest it all year round. So, how does garlic chives propagate?

1. How does garlic chives propagate?

Garlic chives mainly have two propagation methods, namely seed propagation and division propagation. Seed propagation means soaking the seeds to speed up germination, then sowing them in the soil and waiting for them to sprout; once the seedlings have grown to a certain size, they are transplanted. Division propagation means separating the tillers produced by garlic chives that are more than one year old from the old roots and planting them as independent individual plants.

2. Can the flowers on garlic chives be eaten?

The flowers on garlic chives can be eaten. Usually the flower buds are eaten; they not only taste good but are also the most nutritious. If the flower buds have opened into flowers, they can be ground up and pickled into a paste for eating. If the flowers have set seed, the seeds can be stir-fried and eaten, or made into garlic chive flower paste.

3. What should garlic chives not be eaten with?

Garlic chives should not be eaten with spinach, beef, baijiu, honey, milk, etc. Eating them with spinach can easily cause diarrhea; eating them with beef can cause swollen and painful teeth and mouth sores; eating them with baijiu can cause gastritis and recurrence of gastric ulcer disease; eating them with honey can easily cause diarrhea; eating them with milk forms a substance that is difficult to dissolve, hindering the intestine's absorption of calcium.