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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: reddyreddy on February 03, 2010, 09:59:52
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this may be a really obvious question but what is wild garlic and can you grow it? :-\
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There are several wild garlics, but the common British one is Ramsons. You can grow it easily, but it's said to seed everywhere so it may not be a good bet for a small garden.
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Thanks Robert, I have an allotment so will create a corner for it! Many thanks.
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What time of the year do you harvest wild garlic...if you can find it ? I would love to grow some too!
Duke
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is wild garlic the same as mountain garlic?
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http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Allium+ursinum (http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Allium+ursinum)
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why bother? it self-seeds everywhere, needs damp shade, and ain't as strong in flavour as 'normal' garlic!! ;)
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Why? Why not !! sometimes its just nice to try something !!
Duke :P
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Why? Why not !! sometimes its just nice to try something !!
Duke :P
exactly :-*
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Logically enough for "wild" garlic, it grows "wild" in my "shrubbery". I've never eaten it though since I have splendid "proper" garlic from my plot.
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Why? Why not !! sometimes its just nice to try something !!
Duke :P
you obviously ain't seen the size of the cloves!! (very small and fiddley to peel)
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I think the leaves and flowers are used more often than the bulbs.
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Yes, I'm sure it's the leaves and flowers I've seen mentioned in recipes. Oh well, nothing ventured...
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Yes, I'm sure it's the leaves and flowers I've seen mentioned in recipes. Oh well, nothing ventured...
be sure to let us know how you get on!! (with photo's) ;)
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If you use it for just the leaves they are a great fresh taste in the spring when all else is dead!
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I have been reading up on it and its the leaves and the flowers that are used. Sometimes a mild taste can be nice and its good if you like to use flowers in a salad.
Duke
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I grow Wild garlic, although not for eating.
I plant it with blue bells, they flower at the same time and the white and blue are a good combination.
My gardens is just stuffed with blue bells (Spanish, not English :() and the park down the road has a stream running through it with more garlic growing on the banks than you can shake a stick at.
It works out as a very cheap addition for all the gardens I work in, and the clients like it as they get something stunning (and strongly fragrant) for free.
The cloves can grow upto about 2 inches long but not much more than pencil thickness, a bit like the size of a large bullet, but most are the size of a small bullet.
If anyone wants some, I can go down the park with a fork and get some (under the cover of darkness - obviously :o)
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a friend has it growing quiet freely in her garden, it gets very little attension and gives a lovely show each year,i have also heard it is quiet favoured by some chefs in their dishes
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we grow garlic chives, they make a nice addition to salads, plus the flowers are lovely and attract hoverflies ;D
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I grow it in my flower beds and also pick it in the park, its great in the spring in omelette's
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I've collected it in the woods, but not grown it. I used to use it when I was camping.
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Have used the leaves in soup in previous years. Very tasty, although people tend to keep their distance ;D
Does spread everywhere, but grows quite close together so makes a lovely green carpet.
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Excellent - I have some seeds for this year - looking forward to growing this under my apple trees (hope its not too dry)
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If anyone has any spare/thieve some... could you PM me... I'll send a SAE :)
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It grows and blooms well in Jersey CI... well it did when I was there on honeymoon almost 53 years ago, ;-))
I didn't know what that nice looking flower was until I went to pick some, phooooeeee..... qahtan
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If anyone has any spare/thieve some... could you PM me... I'll send a SAE :)
PM sent (I think).
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why bother? it self-seeds everywhere, needs damp shade, and ain't as strong in flavour as 'normal' garlic!! ;)
"Needs damp shade"?.... I've got the sad bit behind my shed under the trees at the bottom of the plot... nothing useful grows there ATM.... a garlicky-flavoured chivy thing might be just the job :D
chrisc
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If anyone has any spare/thieve some... could you PM me... I'll send a SAE :)
Package dispatched today - 2nd class. There should be enough for about a square foot.
If the constabulary come a-knocking and making inquiries, you don't know me and have never heard of any Pesky Wabbit. OK ? Mums the word. :P
PS. Open package in a well ventilated space, otherwise the aroma could blow your socks off.
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All received!!! many thanks.... if there's anything I can do for you, just drop m a line...
:)
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Great. Glad I could spread a little aroma around. 8)
Just plant them ASAP, as soon as the rain/snow stops falling. :(