Chives
Chives are a perennial plant, blooming with beautiful purple flowers from May to August. The leaves can be used all year round. Rich in vitamin A and C, calcium and iron. Chopped chives can go with nearly any dish whenever you want the flavor of onion without the bite. In the fall, you can finely chop the chives and freeze them for the winter without much impairment to the taste.
Chives are cold toleranant and grows in nearly any soil. It prefers sunny places, but can grow it lightly shaded areas and is easy to grow from either seed or plants. You can plant the chives in March in a greenhouse or in the early to mid-April in the ground and can harvest up to November. In cold regions, chives die back to their underground bulbs for winter, with the new leaves appearing in early spring.
You can have fresh chives in a winter too, every fall I dig a small plant of the chives, put them in a pot and keep it in the house all winter on the sunny side of a window.
