Domesticating the wild garlic.....

[Toddy]

Don't think so....these are broad leafed like the ransoms but they have little aerial bulbils....and the googling I did last night more or less said that ransoms don't do this

Are Welsh onions not the ones with papery cases with little onionette things ? sprouting leaves before they drop from the mother plant ?

M

 

[British Red]

No welsh onions are a pernnial like chives on steroids which must be wrong from your description


Chives and Welsh Onions by British Red, on Flickr

Some of the wild onions form the little bulbs (Allium canadense) but the leaves are still wrong......

 

[Toddy]

Okay, then that's what I know of as the wild onion.

I need to burrow into the greenery and take some samples.

cheers,
Mary

 

[Toddy]

British Red; please watch those three corner leeks I sent ? I have been reading and I have a horrible feeling that they might be mixed with the invasive allium paradoxum
It's the only one I can find on line that's showing those little bulbils. Mine came from the burnside and they're common up through the castle policies which is ancient woodland. Thing is though, the policies were actively gardened for a couple of hundred years, so there are some odd things pop up.

If it is the paradoxum, then it's schedule 9 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act

I'll find you some good clearly taken 3 corner leeks if I have gotten them muddled.

Mary

 

[British Red]

I'm near certain it isn't paradoxum Mary but I'll double check

 

[Toddy]

I've been out to the garden and found the biggest one that I can find; it was growing smothered by the blackcurrant bush so it's stretched tall and the details are clear. I've dug up the whole plant, wrapped it in damp paper and polybagged it, and it'll come down to you in the post asap. I'm headed to the post office later on today so it'll go then.

Have a look please ? It doesn't seem to smother the wild garlic, but just grows along side it, and it's usually only about a foot high.

atb,
Mary

 

[British Red]

No worries mate - I'll take a shufti - I'm no expert, but I'll do what I can.

Just caught 20,000 runaways so busy right now

 

[Toddy]

Woo Hoo
"A swarm in May is worth a load of hay"

Nice one

M

 

[Big Stu 12]

Interesting... the farmer that owns the wood that we now meet in, is interested in us introducing some plants/fungi for foraging, one of the Plants he wants to introduce is wild Garlic...

so any info is helpfull

 

[The Big Lebowski]

I'm confused now.
British Red, you grow a lot of the wild onions; which one looks like ransoms but has little white/translucent aerial bulbils ?
What growing isn't red coloured like crow garlic .....do three corner leek and ransoms interbreed ?

cheers,
Mary

Would that be field garlic?

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=f...LjZgZgI&ved=0CDIQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=699#imgrc=_

 

[Elen Sentier]

I must try this, introducing wild garlic, as we love it and have to drive a ways to get it. Anyone got any seed ???

 

[Elen Sentier]

Further to ... I suspect your garlic might not yet stand being dug up ??? I'd love some bulbs to do the same as you.

 

[British Red]

Sadly not Elen - it wants a year or two to increase its bulbs etc.

Plenty on ebay though

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_nkw=wild+garlic&_frs=1

 

[Elen Sentier]

ta for that, Red - thought 1 yr was really too early.

Hmm, Red, what's your soil like? I seem to remember Ramsons like slightly acidic, we're not!

 

[Ash Blue]

Anyone else have extreme smelly farts after eating ramsons?

 

[British Red]

ta for that, Red - thought 1 yr was really too early.

Hmm, Red, what's your soil like? I seem to remember Ramsons like slightly acidic, we're not!

Mines on the alkaline side Elen - no problems here

 

[British Red]

Well now, the introduced wild garlic is flowering again



...and I'm delighted to see young plants emerging showing that the patch is spreading

 

[Harvestman]

If you like your garlic with a kick, then the flower buds are the best bits.

 

[Macaroon]

I've had good results with getting this going in various gardens and allotments, both transplanting and from seed; when I've had very alkaline soil I've dumped a bag or two of ericaceous compost on and dressed with pine needles, seems to do it a treat. This treatment for the soil has also enabled me to get very nice little moss gardens going on otherwise dark and damp little shady corners that are not much good for anything else.....................

 

[Toddy]

I pickled some of the buds and the vinegar was brilliant on salad, while the little buds were a tasty bit among the greenery too.

When the bulbs become over crowded, try lifting some of them, use the leaves as normal, but wash and slice up the bulbs and flash fry them in hot butter. The resultant jus is excellent as a basis for many dishes. I use if for tofu but I have used it for venison, hare, rabbit and chicken and folks seemed to enjoy that too

atb,
Mary