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Thread ID: 122613	2012-01-02 23:55:00	Gardening - growing chives - too hot/dry?	Nomad (952)	PC World Chat

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1251809	2012-01-02 23:55:00	Hiya, been trying to grow chives from seeds. Everywhere I look says is easy. Not a high % germination while the chilli, brocolli, snow peas gets near 100%. Is it may be in full sun that it gets too hot or too dry? Do you place them indoors without direct sunlight? :thanks:	Nomad (952)
1251810	2012-01-03 00:26:00	We currently start all seeds on the kitchen table in morning sun but water them as soon as they start to look dry, we get good % of takeage	gary67 (56)
1251811	2012-01-03 02:46:00	Whereabouts are you? Why do you want to grow them from seed? Your local plant shop should have pottles of them. They're piss easy to grow on. I have a clump in a corner of the vege garden. Just a small onion type plant really.	Richard (739)
1251812	2012-01-03 03:01:00	Hmm. Buy a seedling. Let it grow, let it go to seed. Next year - millions of chive plants. However, I use Black magic seed raising mix for plants new to the garden. Keep moist and warm. Not baking hot and dry. Not drowned either. Just moist. Early plants get bought indoors at night if cool. Otherwise they sit out on the deck in a warm but not super hot spot. Make sure once they are up - they get enough sun. Plant out when they look like they'll cope - that's fairly small really. Not everything likes full sun though. My chives are in a part that gets morning sun, but shaded in the afternoon. They are currently knee high and flowering. I've picked loads and loads, given lots away, so letting them go to seed now. The only herbs I have in full sun is basil, oregano and thyme. The rest get part shade. Veges in full sun - beans, tomatoes, capsicums, corn -haven't got any corn in this year though, stuff like that. Celery, peas were in part shade. Zucchini in part shade. Silverbeet doesn't care - put it anyway, it's a weed....:D	pctek (84)
1251813	2012-01-03 03:10:00	I am in Wellington, I put it in our conservatory so it gets full sun. So could be very hot. I just went with seeds b/c I had great success with the other veges and they say chives are easy to grow. Being a packet, so I could grow more later if need be and they use a lot of chives. So if we with a small chive plant, we may have needed a a few of them. They for eg .. can take a whole bunch and finely chopped just for congee soup. The packet says full or part shade, so I went for full sun :D I have just planted some and put it in a shelted part area - you know those plastic roof things ouside.	Nomad (952)
1251814	2012-01-03 05:08:00	Try Garlic Chives. They grow from seed in dry weather on the North Shore. They flower and set seed every year and if you're not careful they' spread though the whole vege patch! Good strong flavour too.	coldot (6847)
1251815	2012-01-03 05:45:00	I can't remeber the last time we bought seeds of anything SWMBO saves all of our own and the crops get better every year as the seeds are accustomed to our garden	gary67 (56)
1251816	2012-01-03 10:48:00	Try Garlic Chives . They grow from seed in dry weather on the North Shore . They flower and set seed every year and if you're not careful they' spread though the whole vege patch! Good strong flavour too . We love it to spread, they are wanting garlic chives too . We buy like whole bunches from the markets . Similar thing with them . I plant maybe 6 seeds in a tofu plastic container or those seedling pots from prev stuff we bought . Only like 3 germinate . With the normal chives: we found them very thin . We have chives and spring onion but those are very thin . Yeah . . we have Yates Black Magic potting mix and sometimes assisted by Yates Blood and Bone . Using Yates Chives and Garlic Chives seeds . Also weekly we add the powder fertiliser mixed with water delivered by a watering can . Think they are Yates Multipurpose . OTOH broccoli, snow peas and tomatoes germinate superbly 100% in a hot room .	Nomad (952)
1251817	2012-01-03 18:03:00	I am in Wellington, I put it in our conservatory so it gets full sun . So could be very hot . So if we with a small chive plant, we may have needed a a few of them . They for eg . . can take a whole bunch and finely chopped just for congee soup . . Probably is too hot . Ignore the packet - every seed packet I have ever seen says plant in full sun, I think it's generic . If you chopped all of my 1 chive plant, you'd easily fill a 2litre milk bottle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . So, a bunch?? As I said, mine is in part shade, morning sun only, and it's grown like a weed .	pctek (84)
1251818	2012-01-03 19:29:00	Nomad: congee soup!!!! What flavour? Pork and thousand year old eggs is my favourite, although beef is good too. I use a seed raising mix in a large polystyrene fruit tray ex fruiterers (which comes with a lid), sprinkle seeds onto the mix, light covering of more seed raising mix, light watering, and then put the lid on so it is darkish and "insulated". The lids have breathing holes since they were once used for keeping fruit. There is sufficient light to allow germination. The tray is in a shed with glass on the north and west sides (effectively a glass house). I wait until the seedlings are at least one inch tall if not more before transplanting - singly or in clumps depending on what the seedlings look like they can handle. Seems to work for every kind of seed I've tried so far, except onions. This method seems to address the too hot and dry or not hot enough issue for me.	ellpow (16400)
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