There's a clever trick for growing chives in flower pots: twenty days after harvesting, you can harvest again.

Many vegetable gardeners love growing their own food and want to plant a few pots of vegetables, but they don't know what to grow. Xiaoya thinks you should try growing a pot of chives first, because it really is quite simple. Just water occasionally and fertilize a little, and they won't get bugs, and they don't need meticulous care. Plant once, and you can harvest many times.

If you have free time on weekends or whenever you're free, why not grow a few pots of chives on the balcony? The leaves are lush and green, as beautiful as potted flowers and plants, and you can also pick them to cook with. The process is simple and fun. Potted chives are really easy to grow. How do you grow chives in flower pots, and how can you make them grow vigorously, tall and thick?

Plant chives in flower pots in autumn, use one little trick, and the chives will grow wide and tall with lush green leaves!

To grow chives at home, there are two planting methods, both especially simple:

The sowing method: prepare fresh seeds that haven't expired, soak them in clean water for four or five hours. Sprouting them first will make them germinate faster. Use the paper towel sprouting method, wrapping them in a wet paper towel, opening it every day to spray a little water, and when you see the seeds showing a little white root, you can plant them in the soil. Planting them after they show white roots means they'll sprout especially fast. Don't worry, although sown chives grow slowly at first, with more fertilizer and more sunlight later, they'll grow very quickly.

The other method is even simpler, more convenient, and faster. Use chive roots directly to plant. Prepare a larger, deeper pot, because chives have well-developed roots. The key to growing chives well is that the base fertilizer must be applied generously. Whether it's chicken manure fertilizer, cake fertilizer, or leaf mold, the richer the better.

You don't need too much soil to cover them. Water thoroughly, place them in a ventilated spot with sunlight, and they'll sprout in just over ten days.

When they reach a height of over twenty centimeters, you can harvest them to eat. One gardener's chives grew especially lush, and he used this clever trick:

Using plant ash and chicken manure fertilizer as base fertilizer, they can grow to a height of forty centimeters. Water with fertilizer once more before harvesting, and after harvesting they grow especially fast. When the chives reach ten centimeters in height again, water with fertilizer once more, and they grow lush and green, with wide, large leaves and especially vigorous growth. In twenty days you can eat them again.

When growing chives, every time you harvest, add a little fertilizer. They're especially easy to grow, and you can eat them many times. Growing them for four or five years is no problem. Xiaoya planted two pots on the terrace a year ago, and is still eating them now. They're growing well.