this may be a really obvious question but what is wild garlic and can you grow it? :-\
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.
Thanks Robert, I have an allotment so will create a corner for it! Many thanks.
What time of the year do you harvest wild garlic...if you can find it ? I would love to grow some too!
Duke
is wild garlic the same as mountain garlic?
http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Allium+ursinum (http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Allium+ursinum)
why bother? it self-seeds everywhere, needs damp shade, and ain't as strong in flavour as 'normal' garlic!! ;)
Why? Why not !! sometimes its just nice to try something !!
Duke :P
Quote from: Duke Ellington on February 03, 2010, 10:29:50
Why? Why not !! sometimes its just nice to try something !!
Duke :P
exactly :-*
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.
Quote from: Duke Ellington on February 03, 2010, 10:29:50
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)
I think the leaves and flowers are used more often than the bulbs.
Yes, I'm sure it's the leaves and flowers I've seen mentioned in recipes. Oh well, nothing ventured...
Quote from: reddyreddy on February 03, 2010, 10:55:43
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) ;)
If you use it for just the leaves they are a great fresh taste in the spring when all else is dead!
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
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)
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
we grow garlic chives, they make a nice addition to salads, plus the flowers are lovely and attract hoverflies ;D
I grow it in my flower beds and also pick it in the park, its great in the spring in omelette's
I've collected it in the woods, but not grown it. I used to use it when I was camping.
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.
Excellent - I have some seeds for this year - looking forward to growing this under my apple trees (hope its not too dry)
If anyone has any spare/thieve some... could you PM me... I'll send a SAE :)
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
Quote from: Jokerman on February 08, 2010, 20:41:07
If anyone has any spare/thieve some... could you PM me... I'll send a SAE :)
PM sent (I think).
Quote from: tonybloke on February 03, 2010, 10:24:08
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
Quote from: Jokerman on February 08, 2010, 20:41:07
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.
All received!!! many thanks.... if there's anything I can do for you, just drop m a line...
:)
Great. Glad I could spread a little aroma around. 8)
Just plant them ASAP, as soon as the rain/snow stops falling. :(