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I Bought some wild garlic recently. But then read up and realised that it really thrives in a marshy situation.

My problem is my allotment is hardly marshlike.

My thought was to plant them in a plastic tub with a few small holes drilled in the bottom then submerge this into my soil in a shaded part of my allotment.

I hope this will replicate the marsh like environs, by trapping most of the moisture with a bit draining so it won't be waterlogged.

Any thoughts?

hiya!

sorry I can't help with the answer, but I wanted to give wild garlic a go this year as well - can I ask where you managed to find some? cheers!  ;D

I made a visit to Jekka McVicar's Herb farm in Bristol.

She sells them online too.... 

http://www.jekkasherbfarm.com/

She was sooo lovely to meet!

Sounds interesting, I love the smell of wild garlic when I am out walking, how do you use it?

You can chop the leaves and use in stir-fies, use the leaves in salads, use the leaves in soup....yummm.

Flowers are edible too.

Might sound a daft question but that garlic you find it woodlands is this the edible variety????

Quote from: wardy on April 15, 2005, 14:49:35
Might sound a daft question but that garlic you find it woodlands is this the edible variety????

Not daft at all.... But yeah, it is edible..   Very mild garlic taste, which suits its self as a salad leaf.

Quote from: wardy on April 15, 2005, 14:49:35
Might sound a daft question but that garlic you find it woodlands is this the edible variety????

yes (and no) there's a European one with triangular cross section leaves that is becoming a pest and isn't the genuine wild ramsons.

There used to be a LOT of the genuine ones in the back, wooded part of Tapton Park :) as I used to walk home through them from school! But I guess that they fall under the same laws as bluebells and you can't dig them up.

moonbells

the leaves make a wonderful pesto, too
this has really become very fashionable again in germany - being sold at farmer's markets and that. it sure used to be a peasant's veg/herb as it grew wild (it's also protected over there in the wild)

svea

Moonbells    I was in Tapton Park on Tuesday.  Never been before but I had to go to Tapton House on a course and there it was so I had a gleg before coming home  :)

Hi all , I have got so much wild garlic in the garden,I dont know what to do with it all!!!

If anyone wants any I will happily dig up a chunk and send it out.....(now wondering the best way to get it through the post in one piece.)

It is VERY hardy and spreads like wildfire!!

Let me know if I can help anyone out with this  ;D

You've beaten me to it cyrilsquirrel.
That is if what I call wild garlic is what you are all referring to.  white bluebell like flower only smaller and very strong smell of garlic of course.  must admit I have never eaten it.
Wouldn't say it needed to be in marshy conditions, probably does better it it doesn't dry out completely but then when we've had very hot summers and little rain I've never watered it but it still keeps multiplying

MM

This is 'wild garlic'?
Bought at the market this am. Note the flower bud!

Hi Tim,
If that is wild garlic, then mine isn't.  the leaves are more like bluebell leaves.
Might take a photo later and post it.

MM

These are two pictures taken from one of my wildflower books.  The first picture is Ramsons - true wild garlic, the second is of Keeled garlic.  There is another, it is field garlic but has the same habitat (dry grassland) and looks very similar to the Keeled - this no picture.  All three are Alliums.  The only one I have ever come across is Ransoms which like woodland.  It smells strong and I am thinking of getting some, I do not know about the other two.

redclanger I can't see your pictures, I've just got little boxes with a cross in them and they won't open but here is a photo of my wild garlic or whatever it is.  If it's what you are thinking of getting then let me know and I'll dig up some bulbs and send them to you.



MM

They are showing up at my end.

maybe but there is nothing here!  :'(

MM

Try again!

can see them this time, thanks.
so what is mine?

MM