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Hector

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Ransomes
« on: June 27, 2011, 20:23:59 »
How slowly do these multiply? Wondering how many seasons from planting 12 I can harvest a few :)
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Re: Ransomes
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2011, 21:08:05 »
Quite quickly in the right conditions... damp light shade...  :-\
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Hector

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Re: Ransomes
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2011, 21:17:48 »
Quote from: saddad on June 27, 2011, 21:08:05
Quite quickly in the right conditions... damp light shade...  :-\

Ah, typical Welsh summer conditions? I should do well then :)
Thanks :)
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Re: Ransomes
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2011, 21:53:31 »
Or Lancashire Pennines...  :-X
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Re: Ransomes
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2011, 21:54:31 »
Didnt do at all well under my apple trees - probably not damp enough.....
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Jeannine

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Re: Ransomes
« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2011, 22:25:12 »
They apparently gow wild right here in BC, does anyone know the best time to go looking foir them,,easily identified by smell I am told and have white flowers,,but also told the flowers go real fast so need to be ready..

I shall be looking for fiddleheads this coming Spring too.(edible ferns local to me)

XX Jeannine
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lottie lou

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Re: Ransomes
« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2011, 22:34:51 »
May I ask what are ransomes.
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Hector

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Re: Ransomes
« Reply #7 on: June 27, 2011, 22:44:32 »
Quote from: Jeannine on June 27, 2011, 22:25:12
They apparently gow wild right here in BC, does anyone know the best time to go looking foir them,,easily identified by smell I am told and have white flowers,,but also told the flowers go real fast so need to be ready..

I shall be looking for fiddleheads this coming Spring too.(edible ferns local to me)

XX Jeannine

I've been told spring best here in UK , not sure in your neck of the woods :)

Lottie lou, its a wild garlic.
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Re: Ransomes
« Reply #8 on: June 27, 2011, 23:44:09 »
Is that when they flower
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Re: Ransomes
« Reply #9 on: June 28, 2011, 03:35:55 »
it is a bit late in the year to harvest them.
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Re: Ransomes
« Reply #10 on: June 28, 2011, 11:01:25 »
Yes, here in East Sussex they have flowered and disappeared.
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Jeannine

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Re: Ransomes
« Reply #11 on: June 28, 2011, 15:37:00 »
Thank you I will file that in my head for next yeae XX Jeannine
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Re: Ransomes
« Reply #12 on: June 28, 2011, 19:13:22 »
there are loads of wild garlic near me  and spring is the time they flower but ive never tried eating any
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