In my experience garlic chives thrive in either full sun or open shade. They aren't fussy about PH and, after the first year, are drought tolerant. When soil is too dry for growth they have the ability to die at the tops but come back from the bulbs when water becomes available again. In...
Good advice. I always heeded it and I hope others do also. We cannot afford to put any more stress on the bees. Fortunately it dissipates rapidly so if applied in the evening after bees go to bed it will be gone by morning when they are gathering nectar again.
Soil organisms, both bacteria and funguses, incorporate nitrogen into their bodies and it is released when they die. Since many bacteria have a life measured in hours, that's a pretty fast turnover. Of course we all know that legumes have knots on the roots that offer protection to nitrogen...
In many parts of the country regular chives thrive in lawns. You can smell them when you mow.
We had a patch of ramps near me in Oklahoma. Those babies will make your eyes cross.
Kept in a cool dry place garlic chive seeds can be stored for several years. I used paper bags to store them so they would continue to dry. This avoids molding. They sprout in only a few days. If you want plants faster garlic chives clump so you can dig the clump and split it up.
A Sunday school teacher asked Johnny, "Do you know where Jesus is?"
Sure, he answered, "He's in the bathroom with my sister".
"What in he world gave you that idea?"
"Well, every morning my daddy gets up, bangs on the bathroom door and hollers, Jesus Christ are you still in there?"
On Otay Mesa I had what all the books say is ideal soil. It was originally a rocky sand beach a million or more years ago. You could tell that by all the rocks in it. They were rounded off by tumbling in the waves. The sand was relatively coarse, adding to good drainage and no matter how deep I...
Monsanto did a number on BT when they incorporated it into GMO corn. Many creepy crawlers became immune to it and it is now less effective than it used to be.