Wild garlic

Germanshepherdsmum, thank you for the link, I have just bought some for DD.

Farmor15

Real wild garlic is not invasive. I have some for years and it's hardly spread from its original site. It has a very short season - only a few weeks, then it dies back.
On the other hand, we have lots of other invasive weeds!

It is here - it depends on the conditions.

But honestly yes I have a garden frothed in white - but what a lovely problem to have in spring.

In a few weeks time it will be completely gone and the problem with it.

The one with the triangular stems and bell shaped flowers is three cornered leek, as outlets have said , it is very invasive. I dig up loads of it every year and it still manages to pop up. We also have the real wild garlic which is very oretty and doesn’t spread very quickly. Nice in a woodlandy area.

Real wild garlic is not invasive. I have some for years and it's hardly spread from its original site. It has a very short season - only a few weeks, then it dies back.
On the other hand, we have lots of other invasive weeds!

The best way of getting rid of wild garlic is to move!!! No , seriously it is a real pest and if you try and dig it up all the little bulbils come up again, so my suggestion., which I use for any serious weed problem . Before you put the plastic down chop as much as possible to ground level and dispose of it but not into your compost bin. that helps because you are then already limiting what light it is getting. If it is in a particular patch, put down some really good black thick plastic sheeting or old carpet that does not let any light through. Then cover the carpet or plastic with medium gravel of whatever colour suits your garden and then put pots over the gravel. Result ? So you have lots of pots to look at in which you can grow whatever you prefer by choosing what compost/soil you use. You will have to water them of course but I find that putting pots together that grow plants that enjoy the same soil or water needs means that you water each group accordingly. Then you have something lovely to look at , can move pots about etc and I chose to leave it like that for 2 years . No light at all is the answer and the pots are nicer to look at in the meantime.

I dug out a clump of bulbs yesterday. I’d thought it was wild garlic that’s been spreading but reading this tells me it isnt

I have an odd garlicky invader in my garden, perhaps someone can identfy it from a description.

It is just one stem, a bit like one shoot of chives, but darker green, and not floppy and it grows to about one foot. It has a deeply rooted small white bulb and it reeks of garlic. I have cooked with them. I have no idea what the flowers are like as I never let it get that far, I dig it up and put it in the food waste container to be anaerobicly digested (it is a form of garlic), so there is no chance of it spreading anywhere else..

It turned up in my garden, en masse, some 10-15 years ago, it spreads like a rash, despite me not letting it flower and nobody else I know has it. My assiduous digging and disposal over the years has almost rid the garden of most of it, but odd ones keep springing up round the garden, and then every so often, a small area is spattered with them.

If anyone knows what it is, I would be interested to find out

Harvest wild garlic leaves and use them for soups & casseroles, etc.. If you blend them with a little water you can freeze in ice blocks and store those in the freezer for winter use. It's great.

I have been trying to get rid of wild garlic in my garden since we moved in 22 years ago! Far worse is the problem of bamboo which my neighbour thought would be a good idea to plant in their garden, aaaaah!

Hi everyone who has given me useful tips about using my Allium (the Not Wild Garlic one) in cooking. I shall try some soon. Thank you.

By the way mine have never flowered and I have added them to an omelette which was delicious and garlicky. I’m still here so they must be ok.

Aldom

And here is the photo of my little patch.

I have that but sowed the seeds yes,f from a packet naming them as garlic chives. I always thought that wild garlic has bigger broader leaves?

I learnt a hard lesson when I bought a bag of mixed Allium bulbs at a flower show some years ago. NEVER plant the really little ones! I planted two patches of five bulbs, and every year since I have had to dig up bucketfuls of them (easiest when in the green before they flower). The are pretty, but real thugs and crowd out all my heucheras and aquilegias.

Aldom

And here is the photo of my little patch.

You can do the same things sith three cornered leek as you can with wild gsrlic, except you get an oniony taste and not a garlicky one.

My family were farmers and I remember an occasion when the cows got into the orchard, which was carpeted with the stuff, and ate the garlic. The next two days' milk had to be poured away because it smelled strongly, and of course the Milk Marketing Board wouldn't accept it.
My father was not happy.

I have been cutting my dying Bluebells. If I leave them to mulch will the seeds still develop?

Spay them with a strong weedkiller.

Another one here who thought she had wild garlic, whatever I have got it is menace but looks lovely when in flower.

Aldom, it's edible!

Thanks MaizieD. I'll get to it as soon as I can 🤞

BlueBelle

Aldom I have your sort and always thought it was wild garlic 😂😂

BlueBelle I thought about it this afternoon and I'm thankful I didn't cook with it!

If you find it hard to remove, Auntiflo I'd suggest that you at least cut all the flower heads off before they set seed. They grow very, very easily from seed. Then at least they wouldn't spread so fast.

Thanks to all for all the helpful posts.
On looking at the pictures, I now think that it isn't wild garlic but Aldom's, the garden thug according to MaizieD. It does look very pretty, but has spread throughout a smallish bed in the front. There are alliums as well. I know I won't be able to get down to dig it out, so will have to do 15 mins at a time, bending and pulling.
My friend who came this morning, couldn't smell it at all.

Last month I walked deep into the woods and picked bags full of beautiful wild garlic.
I wash it, dry it in the sun then set about making a years worth of pesto.
I use the wild garlic, toasted walnuts, walnut oil/olive oil, basil, Parmesan and lemon.
It’s the taste of summer just delicious.

Aldom I have your sort and always thought it was wild garlic 😂😂