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Gardening

HopeHoops

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8. That's why we grow our own. I've got a chive colony we started in 1987.

Reply to luv_mykatz (Reply #7)

Sun Nov 18, 2012, 11:57 AM

Nov 2012

That colony has been split many times, made it through several moves, and a lot of the clumps have been given away. There's NO COMPARISON between fresh chives and the paper rings they sell in little bottles. Oh, and I remember looking at the unit cost for chives about 30 years ago and it was $270/oz. That's more than the best pot on the market! I realized then that you aren't buying the chives - you're just buying the bottle they come in.

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