Allium Guide
12 onions, garlics and chives — how each one persists, when it goes in, and where it belongs.
Twelve alliums, and the thing that decides where each one can live is how it persists. A perennial that spreads cannot share ground that gets turned every season; an annual that needs seven months of bed space cannot live in a cinder-block hole. Sort them into the three tiers below first, and placement mostly answers itself.
Permanent
Plant once. Bags, pots, or bed corners that are never turned.
Annual production
Real bed footage for 7–8 months, then out cleanly.
Succession
Cinder-block holes and bed edges. Resown continuously, never committing bed interior.
Updated 2026-10-05