Any idea about these flowers?

[cambourne7]

Hi

This has grown on a friends plot after he cleared in from garlic.

http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n61/cambourne7/Allotment/14082008162.jpg

Cam

[cambourne7]

[froglets]

Flowers look like Chives, but I would expect there to be lots of leaves too.

Sorry, a bit vague really.

[Emagggie]

Yes, I agree. Are the flowers attached to the leaves in the photo Cam, only the leaves look like dock or something and the flowers look like the onion family.

[Eristic]

Garlic.

[cambourne7]

ah so there must be more garlic down there

[Sally A]

The size looks more like wild or field garlic rather than cultivated garlic.  Have a look at the local plant database to see if if it's another plant naturalised to your area.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/plants-fungi/postcode-plants/

It was only by using that site that I found out that field garlic is extremely useful to use the greenery in VERY EARLY stir fries etc, at least 2 months before cultivated garlic can be used that way.

[cambourne7]

Ace i will have a look the flowers quite pretty but hard does it have garlic seed inside???

[Sally A]

Sorry to be so late in coming back.  a pic of the leaves would help (ie there aren't any ;).  I wouldn't rely on this crop, but it is a hardier, much tougher UK naturalised version of garlic.  The bulbs are small but pungent, but the fact they are usable from spring onwards is a plus and as they grow like weeds...Hey! use them.  some of the outer stalks you might want to remove before dishing up to Egon Ronay ;)  But would definitely use as flavouring.  If you can dunk it into a dish in a muslin bag, a la bouquet garni, that would probably be the best way.

[petengade]

Left some garlic in the ground  and seed heads came up, same as the ones in photo, put some of the bulbets in peat in a seed tray and they have begun to grow, 3 inches high now.