So over the bank holiday weekend I've picked some wild garlic and decided to make some soup with some sweet potato.
I've got some garlic bread that's rising at the moment, I think it's my favourite wild food.
Wild garlic
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Loads about at the moment. Passed a leaf to my three and half year old grand daughter yesterday after scrunching it up to bruise it.
She loved the smell.
She loved the smell.
I managed to get a few clumps last year and planted them around my garden. I was just thinking that I hadn't seen any about while walking at the Boarstall Duck Blind, and then checked mine. To my joy, all 4 clumps have come up. Looks like Garlic with everything for the next few weeks!
I might have to try and get some growing, I've always found it fascinating how people have always said where did you get that from when the clue is in the name lol its so easy to find but people just walk on by.
Mine's coming up too - found it in about 5 places but can't remember exactly how many locations I planted it in to begin with!
We have it growing on my local brook,spotted a couple of years ago the first time in 40 years.I like to check on it when I'm walking the dog,someone had cut the lot back which I thought was a bit harsh,at least its all getting used.
Took couple of bulbs a few years back for a big plant pot,doing very nicely. I love the smell to.
Took couple of bulbs a few years back for a big plant pot,doing very nicely. I love the smell to.
I'll add a couple of warnings. It can be a very invasive plant, so take care if you introduce it. Even so it's not legal to dig up bulbs without the land owners permission, it is however very easy to grow from seed which you can freely collect.
Leaves and flower buds go very well in an omelet with wild sorrel and nettle tops.
Leaves and flower buds go very well in an omelet with wild sorrel and nettle tops.
Is this possibly escaped domestic garlic? Invasive? I planted some from the grocery store, hoping for the best. Nothing.
I do better potting up chunks of grocery store ginger root, fine dice the leaves into salads.
I discovered that there's a green fleshy sprout at the top of the garlic plants that some locals are making into pickles.
Absolute treat.
I do better potting up chunks of grocery store ginger root, fine dice the leaves into salads.
I discovered that there's a green fleshy sprout at the top of the garlic plants that some locals are making into pickles.
Absolute treat.
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Not even remotely possible. Wild garlic is gallium ursinum (bear garlic) domestic garlic is allium sativum. They look and taste completely different.
I'm amazed you struggle with domestic garlic...when and how do you plant it? I grow hundreds of bulbs a year, both hard and soft neck. We get over 99% success.
Thanks for the proper names. I broke up some heads of garlic from the store, planted 2" down and 6" apart in the autumn. Somebody told me to do it that way.
Stakes and string to mark the patch so I wouldn't forget after 6 months of hard winter brain freeze. Maybe 1/20 came up? They may still be there, now several years later.
If the snow lets up this week, I'll check. Much of our store garlic comes from SE Asia = probably had a hissy fit with our winters!
In the Great Plains of the interior of North America, wild onion has been reported. I found one.
"Hard neck and soft neck. . . " Are those your names for the structures called 'scapes?'
Stakes and string to mark the patch so I wouldn't forget after 6 months of hard winter brain freeze. Maybe 1/20 came up? They may still be there, now several years later.
If the snow lets up this week, I'll check. Much of our store garlic comes from SE Asia = probably had a hissy fit with our winters!
In the Great Plains of the interior of North America, wild onion has been reported. I found one.
"Hard neck and soft neck. . . " Are those your names for the structures called 'scapes?'
Scapes are flower buds, the neck is dried foliage after the bulb has been prepared for storage.
Your planting sounds okay so I think you need a hardier variety. The one I have developed doesn't even frost burn ate below zero (Fahrenheit)
Bought some fresh purple carrot, pea, green bean and beet seed. Want to start some of the multicolor, heritage corn/maize seed in 500ml pots = the ears look fantastic.
Thanks, BR, you're probably right. I'll wait until the garlic growers start to show up in the local Farmer's Market and buy some to try again this coming autumn.
I've got 88 black currant bush cuttings doing well and will have approx 90 grape vines started for the Friday Markets. Fun to start cuttings from my pruning garbage and sell them.
40 Medjool date palms are happy.
Thanks, BR, you're probably right. I'll wait until the garlic growers start to show up in the local Farmer's Market and buy some to try again this coming autumn.
I've got 88 black currant bush cuttings doing well and will have approx 90 grape vines started for the Friday Markets. Fun to start cuttings from my pruning garbage and sell them.
40 Medjool date palms are happy.
I'm going to have to get some to grow I never tried as I herd it was really hard to get to grow in a garden
Just been out today and some of the wild garlic I planted last year is flowering:
The rest of it doesn't seem to be flourishing because of other weeds but hopefully year on year it will improve
The rest of it doesn't seem to be flourishing because of other weeds but hopefully year on year it will improve
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