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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Hector on June 27, 2011, 20:23:59

Title: Ransomes
Post by: Hector on June 27, 2011, 20:23:59
How slowly do these multiply? Wondering how many seasons from planting 12 I can harvest a few :)
Title: Re: Ransomes
Post by: saddad on June 27, 2011, 21:08:05
Quite quickly in the right conditions... damp light shade...  :-\
Title: Re: Ransomes
Post by: Hector 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 :)
Title: Re: Ransomes
Post by: saddad on June 27, 2011, 21:53:31
Or Lancashire Pennines...  :-X
Title: Re: Ransomes
Post by: gwynleg on June 27, 2011, 21:54:31
Didnt do at all well under my apple trees - probably not damp enough.....
Title: Re: Ransomes
Post by: 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
Title: Re: Ransomes
Post by: lottie lou on June 27, 2011, 22:34:51
May I ask what are ransomes.
Title: Re: Ransomes
Post by: Hector 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.
Title: Re: Ransomes
Post by: Jeannine on June 27, 2011, 23:44:09
Is that when they flower
Title: Re: Ransomes
Post by: plainleaf on June 28, 2011, 03:35:55
it is a bit late in the year to harvest them.
Title: Re: Ransomes
Post by: artichoke on June 28, 2011, 11:01:25
Yes, here in East Sussex they have flowered and disappeared.
Title: Re: Ransomes
Post by: Jeannine on June 28, 2011, 15:37:00
Thank you I will file that in my head for next yeae XX Jeannine
Title: Re: Ransomes
Post by: brown thumb 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