Best time to plant chives in Nowra
Allium schoenoprasum
Also called onion chives
Sow chives in Nowra in Sep to Mar.
The smallest kitchen onion relative, chives form dense clumps of slender bulbs and hollow, grass-like leaves about 25 cm tall. Both leaves and the pale purple, star-shaped flowers can be eaten. They come back each year, and cooks snip them fresh over all kinds of food.
When to sow in Nowra
Nowra, NSW is in the temperate zone. Its months for chives apply here without a frost adjustment.
Not yet checked against a local guide.
Your local conditions can shift any months shown here, so treat them as a guide.
Frost in Nowra
Frost usually arrives in Nowra around late July and finishes by mid August. In about 1 year in 10 it comes as early as early July or as late as late August, so frost-tender crops are planned around those dates.
From its Bureau of Meteorology station, 1991 to 2020, counting a night at 2°C or lower as a frost. Frost hollows and hillsides can shift these dates by weeks, so ask the growers at your garden too.
On a shared plot: stays for years
Holds its spot for years. Check your garden's rules and how long your plot licence runs.
Growing details
- How to start
- Raise seedlings, then transplant
- Sowing depth
- 8mm
- Plant spacing
- 10cm
- Row spacing
- 20cm
- Height
- 50cm
- Time to harvest
- 60-90 days
- Frost
- Hardy, takes a light frost
- Sun
- Full sun
- Life cycle
- perennial
These are typical figures, and varieties differ. Your seed packet takes priority.