tom hooper wrote:
My garlic chives have put up flowers and not they are turning to seed
heads. How do I harvest them so I can replant?
Depending on climate, the garlic chives should come back anyway... you can
collect the dry seed heads and put in a paper bag; when they're good and
dry, crumble with your hands and you should see a bunch of black seeds in
the bottom, just like onion seeds but smaller.
Pour between a couple of containers on a breezy day, or just mix with water
and float off the chaff, sort of like panning for gold, then spread out in
a big sieve to dry immediately, so they don't think of sprouting. I do
this successfully for leek seeds.
Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G
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