Wild garlic

Just checked it is illegal to dig up the bulbs.

I didn't suggest digging up any wild garlic bulbs (though anyone is welcome to come and dig some of mine up as I have industrial quantities.)

All I suggested was taking a couple of ripe seed heads.

What I would not do is pay good money for a rampant 'weed'.

I haven’t smelled wild garlic for years: it makes me think of the time I spent in Cornwall.

Wild Garlic on the verge, taken this afternoon. There was at least a mile of it.

Thank you GSM, I have emailed that link to her

Thank you Maisie and WWM Because of the strong garlic smell I've always assumed it was wild garlic. But now I see your picture WWM I remember the woodland garlic from childhood.
Every day's a school day, as the saying goes.

My neighbour insisted that his wild garlic was a white variety of bluebell
and it spread all over my garden and into the lawn .

I've found that it's easier to pull up when it's in full flower and the bulb is weaker .

Leave any bulbs behind and up it comes again .

I've suffocated patches of it with thick black plastic bags weighed down with stones .

It's been an ongoing battle , which I'm slowly winning .

Just checked it is illegal to dig up the bulbs.

25Avalon

MaizieD is right Aldo’s. That is not wild garlic.

I paid a fiver for 2O garlics in the green. Much quicker than seed. Not sure if you are allowed to dig the bulbs up in the wild?

No I wouldn’t. Son of course excepted 37 years ago😄

MaizieD is right Aldo’s. That is not wild garlic.

I paid a fiver for 2O garlics in the green. Much quicker than seed. Not sure if you are allowed to dig the bulbs up in the wild?

I agree Maizie. Definitely not wild garlic. I have that too, seeds around but I don’t mind as it’s pretty and it dies down completely before the summer plants come into their own.

Germanshepherdsmum

MrsKen your daughter can buy some plants online here
www.gardensupplydirect.co.uk/wild_garlic_in_the_green/wild_garlic_in_the_green__allium_ursinum_ramsons/12983_p.html
And lots of other places I’m sure.

Thank you. That will be useful for me too.

This is wild garlic😄

Aldom

And here is the photo of my little patch.

I'm afraid that that isn't wild garlic, Aldom. It's another member of the allium family, allium triquetrum. it has that strong oniony smell but that's all. And it's a terrible garden thug and seeds itself like crazy. I've spent years trying to prevent it taking over my garden!

Wild garlic has much broader leaves, a bit like tulip leaves and a globular flower head made up of tiny white flowers. Lots of images of it here:

duckduckgo.com/?q=wild+garlic&t=chromentp&iax=images&ia=images

I'm amazed that people sell it on line! I'm sure that if one went to a wood where it grows and picked a couple of flower heads when they had set seed it would be very easy to grow!

I do recall that last spring there were complaints that in some areas woodlands were being stripped of their wild garlic because it had become a fashionable restaurant offering...

And here is the photo of my little patch.

I keep a little patch of wild garlic by the back gate. It used to be a glorious large patch until I used the space for a shed. A few pop up in a couple of borders, but each year, after flowering I remove as many as possible.
My first school was in woodland. Masses of wild garlic and wild wallflowers grew there. The smell of both takes me back to being a little girl.

Germanshepherdsmum

MrsKen your daughter can buy some plants online here
www.gardensupplydirect.co.uk/wild_garlic_in_the_green/wild_garlic_in_the_green__allium_ursinum_ramsons/12983_p.html
And lots of other places I’m sure.

I bought some in the green quite cheaply on EBay a few weeks ago.

MrsKen your daughter can buy some plants online here
www.gardensupplydirect.co.uk/wild_garlic_in_the_green/wild_garlic_in_the_green__allium_ursinum_ramsons/12983_p.html
And lots of other places I’m sure.

Wild garlic will die down and the leaves disappear by June time, until it re-emerges next Spring, so you won’t have it all year round. Lots of things you can do with it - make garlic butter or pesto. Just be careful it is wild garlic. I am trying to grow it in a wooded area at the moment but although it is supposed to be invasive it’s being slow.

Just one thought - are you show it is wild garlic? Wild arum looks similar when it first comes up but is highly poisonous. I have it appearing in my flower borders this year. If cooking with wild garlic the leaves smell of garlic unlike arums which eventually get hooded with the poisonous berries which ripen to red inside. It’s these the birds must deposit.

My son is 50 this year and as a young teenager he used to cycle throughout the Sussex countryside. One trip near Arundel castle he brought back some wild garlic for me for the garden. It is still there - daring me to get rid of it😄

It is considered a noxious weed in Australia because it spreads too quickly.

Can you send some to my DD. She wants some in her wood.? 😃

But they split and spread like billyo. It took us about 5 years of digging them out. We still get small outbreaks which look lovely but are dug out as the flowers die.

You can dig it out it has little bulbs that look like spring onions Auntieflo.