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
Flowers look like Chives, but I would expect there to be lots of leaves too.
Sorry, a bit vague really.
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.
Garlic.
ah so there must be more garlic down there
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.
Ace i will have a look the flowers quite pretty but hard does it have garlic seed inside???
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.
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.