I have had a few mounds of chives that had moved with us to our farm 10 years ago. By a miracle they have managed to continue to live and are surprisingly hardy little buggers. I had them planted in the ground but ended up digging up the mounds and setting them on the top of the ground. There they sat for the last 5 years until now that I have decided on a final growing location for them. I know... I am a super lazy ass, but it would not have been right to plant them again only to dig em up and move em again.

I had 2 mounds that had not been cleaned of grass yet so I decided to use them for the first row. More to say I started planting in a row and hoped it would make it to the tend. In reality the single mound got about 7/8 of the way through the 15 foot row. Luckily I had a second mound that had a small smattering of little chives, but they were growing so they finished the row out perfectly.

It is just a single row at the moment and it sits next to the new asparagus rows that I planted yesterday. Each row has a single run of soaker hose that provides the water. I have it running every other day right now since the temps are low enough and the soil is still moist.

The 2 larger pots on the left are the other chives that need to be broken up into rows and the 4 pots all the same size on the right are shallots. I got a bag of them from a CSA box a couple years ago and decided to toss them into soil. I am very happy to finally be putting them into the ground so I can see how big they will get. The chives will take at least on more row, if not two, then the shallots will get a row to themselves.

It is so nice to see the chives all spaced out and with plenty of room to spread and grow. I hope beyond hope that they blow the hell up but I don't want to have to ask people to take chives since I can't sell them fast enough. The old laws of supply and demand.

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