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Plant Portrait - Allium ursinum, Wild Garlic

It was late December when I was deciding which plants to include in this edition of the newsletter. We were in the grip of a period of very cold weather that had seen the ground frozen hard for only the second time in the seven years I have been living in Cornwall. I was walking along a country lane and my thoughts were moving longingly ahead to the spring and warmer weather. I started thinking about the first signs of the spring - for us it is the snowdrops and the wild garlic. I suddenly remembered that in no more than six weeks time I would actually be harvesting wild garlic from the banks at the side of the lane I was walking down. Suddenly, spring did not seem so far away.

Wild garlic grows abundantly in this part of Cornwall, and also in many other areas of the country. It is a plant that seldom needs to be cultivated, just give it a position in semi-shade, preferably under trees, and leave it to its own devices. It will succeed in most soils and prefers moist conditions, though it will also succeed where the soil is very wet in the winter. When given suitable conditions, it will form a dense carpet of growth and can be very invasive. The plant comes into growth in the middle to late winter, flowers in the spring and then dies down completely by the middle of summer. This allows many other plants that come into growth in spring to grow in the same space.

This is an excellent companion plant in the garden, it grows well with most plants and seems to positively affect their health and their ability to resist pests and diseases. It does not seem to grow so well with plants in the pea and bean family, however, with many gardeners noticing reduced growth and vigour in both species. It is also said to repel moles from the garden, though I am not at all sure that the moles have read the same reports, or that they would agree with them if they had!

We eat all parts of this plant in quantity when it is in season. The leaves are delicious raw or cooked and we have harvested them as early as the middle of January in mild winters. They have a distinct garlic flavour, though are milder than garlic cloves, and really add something special to a winter salad. When cooked, they are normally used as a flavouring in soups, stews etc, though we have at times used them like spinach.

As the flowers begin to open in the middle of spring, the leaves start to lose their vitality. At this time we simply switch our attention to the flowers, using them in exactly the same way as the leaves. They have a somewhat stronger flavour and make a decorative and very tasty addition to salads. The flowering heads can still be eaten as the seed pods are forming, though the flavour gets even stronger as the seeds ripen.

The bulb can also be eaten raw or cooked, and can be harvested all year round, though is best used when the plant is dormant from July to December or January. It has a fairly strong garlic flavour, though it is quite small and fiddly to harvest.

From the health perspective, wild garlic has most of the benefits of the cultivated garlic, A. sativum. It is therefore a very beneficial addition to the diet, promoting the general health of the body when used regularly. It is particularly effective in reducing high blood pressure and blood cholesterol levels. The juice of the plant has been used as a general household disinfectant.

Once you have this plant growing, you are unlikely to be without it, or to need to propagate it. However, should you want to introduce it to a new site, this is a simple thing to do. You can either harvest the seed in early summer and sow it immediately either in situ (if you have masses of the seed) or in trays in a cold frame. It usually germinates well and should produce plants large enough for harvesting in the third year of growth.

Alternatively, dig up some bulbs in the summer once the plants have died down and plant them immediately into their new site. They will be ready for harvesting from their second year of growth.

You can look at our leaflet on Perennial Onions for other intresting members of the onion family.

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Allium vineale

Michael J. Orlove D.I.C., D. Phil Sun, 25 Jul 1999

Universe! Dear Rich, 24-July-1999

I discovered your page with the following URL:

http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/pfaf/onions.html

In it you made reference to Allium ursinum, as "wild garlic". I always thought A. ursinum was a rare species in North American woods, and that in Britain and North America the term was usually applied to A vineale. It is also applied to A. canadesne as you know, and also feral populations of A. sativum whose origin in the New world is considered mysterious, Native Americans and early White settlers have both been suspected of introducing it, or possibly it spread on its own without human agency (which I doubt). A. vineale is a tubular leaved species but it is much more closely related to A. ampeloprasum, A. sativum, A., scorodoprasum, A. shaeonoprasum, and A. rosem than to A. cepa, or A. fistulosum. It is the one that is a pest in wheatfields because of the similarity of its bulbils in shape and density to wheat kernels, making mechanical separation very difficult.

what has fascinated me so much about A. vineale is its extreme variation in umbel contents even within a local population. some plants have flowers some bulbils, and some both. When bulbils are few or absent in the umbel, the blossoms are VERY showy --being companulate instead of ovatge.

At such times they are purple instead of green. The very showy form is known as A. V. capsuliferum in reference to its seed capsules. the half and half (bulbils and blossoms) form is called A. V. typicum, and the all bulbil one is A. v. compactgum. Two dark pigmented bulbilforms are also described, one reproduces like compactum, and is called A. v. fuscescens, and the other appears to have viviparous bulbils, but the "sprouts" are actually non-vestigal blades on scale leaves on the bulbils, and is known as A. v. crinitum. crinitum usually has one or 2 ovate flowers per umbel which are lavender or purple in color. All sorts of intermediates exist between these forms. Here in Ithaca fuscescens-like ones have flowers, and crinitum like ones don't or crinitum like ones will have many flowers and viable flowers with many capsuls forming.

I once found a clump of capsuliferum surrounded by a vast field of hundreds and thousands of typicum. Those typicum near the capliferum had purple flowers like the capsuliferum, but the ones farther out had the green flowers typical of typicum. The blossoms of this species are usually visited by tiny ants, sweat bees, or nothing at all, but the capsuliferum where being actively and aggressively visited by large bumblebees (Bombus pennsylvanicus --a large pocket maker, related to the British species B agrorum, but as big as B. terristris). Large paper wasps (Polistes fuscatus) were equally present and interested in the nectar.

An article by Hugo Iltis in the 1940's (it was either in Scientific Monthly or Atlantic Monthly) claimed that this showy capsuliferum form made it as far north a as North Carolina, and . v. typicum was as good as you could get in the Northeast.

Nevertheless this wonderful clump of capsuliferum I found was in the Bronx! that was in 1979, and it continued to persist there until 1983. could this have been global warming? the real question was this capsuliferum more related to the non - sexual nonspecific neighbors around it, or capsuliferum in N. Ccarolina? did it evolve denovo from non-sexual or less sexual forms?

Many biologists say it is a mystery how sex evolved to begin with (the origin - of- sex question" and it is equally a mystery how sex stays in the population and doesn't get selected against (the maintenance - of -sex question). John Maynard Smith (at the University of Susex), Goeffrey Parker (University of Liverpool), and George Williams (University of the State of New York at Stonybrook) have become famous elucidating and trying to solve this mystery. It seems that mating with a stranger may further the fitness of your offspring, but it appears not enough to justify throwing half-of your genes away, as a female does when mating. Plants with both cleistogamous and chasmogamous flowers, like Violo sp., Impatiens capensis (Orange balsam), and I. noli-tangeri (touch-me-not), and the very similar North American I. palida, not to mention the hog peanut, Amphicarpaea xxx, present a similar example of this mystery.

What are your thoughts on this issue? How far north does A. v. capsuliferum make it in Britain? I have found capsuliferum in Interlaken, N. Y. Near Ithaca, N. Y. where Cornell University is, but these ones were not as tall or showy as the ones from the much warmer Bronx. but they were capsuliferum, and made good seed. I have 2 accessions of them, one from a bulbil, and the other from a seed collected from the same umbel in Interlaken.

I have been unable to get them to blossom or even bolt with bulbils in my garden, just getting non scapigqarous growth every spring.

There is some folklore in this country that A. vineale takes on its capsuliferum form when in the vacinity of an underground stream, and dowsers exploit the information provided by the occurrence of the plant in particular instances.

Well I must go now, Please forgive my sloppy typing, I am disabled and it takes me eons to proofread things. Incidentally, are you in Cornwall, or Yorkshire?

Some day I will, if I only live, compare the DNA of different forms of A. V. vineale from different locations. the Bronx material seems to be now absent from the original site, I have been back 3 times over the years, and the material I collected now exists as seed in cold storage, but I lack access to it over a technicality (it was shipped to another storage facility instead to Harvard where I was going to grow it out, due to an accident, and it would take a very large sum to recover it, as well as the permission of the person who became its accidental owner who is not willing to release it to me. this is very frustrating.

sincerely yours,

Michael J. Orlove D.I.C., D. Phil

Allium ursinum, Wild Garlic

Tue Dec 25 19:00:47 2001

Hello! I have a book about medicinal plants in my own language (romanian) written by Mrs. Maria Trben. It's a great book.( By the way, this book has been translated in 17 languages). I have a condition that i always have hard headaches and i barely can sleep at night. i read the book,in my language,and i found that (leurda) ALLIUM URSINUM (by the way for each medicinal plant, they put the well-famous latin translation.) it's great to use as tea-type, and its great for my condition, and for a total disinfection of the body, as you mention in your report. That's how i found out of the translation by the latin name. I encourage that in any medicinal book, the writters? to include the latin name of the plant, because as far as i know, every language use it. uhm, but now that i know that in English it is called Wild Garlic, i am looking for the tea-type product of it. i know some medicinal stores, and im going to see if they have what i want. wish me luck.

i found about this site by the latin name of the plant i was looking for.

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Konni Worsley Mon Apr 8 17:45:03 2002

Does anyone out there know how to get hold of some bulbs? We encountered Baerlauch, or Allium ursinum in Germany, but have been unable to successfully germinated the seeds.

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Wed May 29 18:17:37 2002

does anyone know how to pickle wild garlic

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Caitlin Mon Oct 21 03:57:29 2002

Here is a very interesting website about this plant: Alli Urs According to this site, it grows in many places in Europe and is used in local recipes, but has been difficult to commercially cultivate. It's American cousin is ramp, Allium tricoccum, used in a very similar way.

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E Lewis Sat Apr 5 21:12:39 2003

Please help, My garden borders are infested with wild garlic. I've tried to dig it out over and over again but if I leave just a little in it is twice as bad in the next season. Is there a way chemically to rid myself of it? My wife and I are both galic lovers but at the present time it's jut too much.

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Tue Apr 29 14:31:44 2003

you can get wild garilc bulbs here:- http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~nfarley/thomas-etty/bulbs/allium.htm

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Wed May 4 2005

Now is the time to visit Carmarthen & Pembroke [Apli/May] Lanes & wooded areas full of the stuff , smells real good.

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Sean McCartan Sun May 29 2005

Picked some a.ursinum today at Lch Eck , Argyll & bute , Scotland. Classic conditions , i.e. beside water , under tree shade , giving off strong odour.Had it tonight in scrambled egg ,after a recipe found in Northern Spain...superb !.

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fiona roberts Mon Nov 14 2005

We found it in Arran in Scotland about five years ago. dug it up and planted it in our garden in Cntral London where it flourishes!!!

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Mike Thu Jan 19 2006

As others have said, you don't even have to look for it in any wet woodland setting, just follow your nose :) I grws profusely in a just such a setting at Balbirnie Golf Course in Fife where there is a huge raft of white flowers in spring that follows on from the snowdrops.

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Pat Legerton Wed Apr 5 2006

We brought some wild garlic bulbs back from Cornwall last year but they haven't survivied. We would like some more to put under some trees in a wild part of our garden in Hertfordshire. Can anyone help.

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Helga Grant Sun Apr 16 2006

H.Grant I visit Germany and enjoy eating the soft cheese made with this plant in the spring spring, you can find it on the farmers market. It is delicious. It can be easely confused with some poisonius plants like Lily of the valley, if you are not knowlegable.

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yana Sun Apr 16 2006

Ok, now I'm confused... Which is the closest American plant to the European Allium ursinum: Allium vineale or allium tricoccum? Also, which, if any, of these plants are native to the North American continent? I'm researching growing wild garlic here (I live in Minnesota) after having had the one in Germany. Since I am a native plants proponent I hesitate to introduce a potentially invasive plant here, so I was wondering if there actually is a close relative (in taste and health benefits) that's native tothis region. Thank you so much for any leads or pointers!

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Mwnci bach Mon Apr 24 2006

I can't say for anywhere else - but there are vast drifts of this species in the upper Neath Valley in S. Wales. (Between Aberdulais and Resolven) There is an area of wetlands between the Neath canal and the River Neath - at times the smell of garlic on the towpath walk is quite overpowering. Does anyone else know for large populations in the UK? This species seems to like the high rainfall levels of the S. Western areas of the British Isles.

Allium ursinum, Wild Garlic

Tue Apr 25 2006

My wife and I discovered large drifts of wild Garlic in North East Hampsire this weekend, we both like garlic and "liberated" a few bulbs for the garden. We found it growing under trees in ancient copses where you would find bluebells and wood anemones. The landscape was dry with no source of water in sight.

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Mwnci bach Thu Apr 27 2006

(Well - I say the drifts are in wetlands - they aren't in the marshy areas themselves. They're on raised mounds up off the wet areas in dappled sunlight beneath a canopy created by willows, ash and hazel trees.) Very beautiful - some the blooms have started to flower (See date above).

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Fri Apr 28 2006

To Pat Legerton you can buy wild garlic bulbs here here:- http://www.thomasetty.co.uk/

Thomas-etty bulbs they moved to this site

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Virginia Wed May 3 2006

I have vast quantities of a plant- which smells garlicy but I am not sure if it is wild garlic. I was hoping to find a picture

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MartinJ Wed May 3 2006

Virginia, there are loads of pictures here, http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=images&imgsz=all&imgc=&vf=all&va=wild+garlic&fr=fp-tab-web-t-1&ei=ISO-8859-1 which variety do you think you have? Is Virginia your name or where you live?

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MartinJ Sat May 6 2006

The wild garlic flowers are starting to open here in North East Hampsire, date 05 May 2006, See link to a photo. About 10% of the flowers are open the rest are still tightly closed buds.

Yateley1 Wild Garlic and Bluebells

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Steve Hatcher Sat May 13 2006

I'm from Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan.The wild garlic is profuse and well into flower along the banks of a local shaded brook.The aroma is delicious.I have them dotted around my garden. Thanks for the culinary tips by the way!

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Andrew Mortimer Thu May 18 2006

Does anybody have a recipe for preserving wild garlic? We live in cornwall where it grows absolutely everywhere, and are happily eating our way through it. However,as it has great medicinal properties, and only a short growing season, we would like to be able to use it for the remaining part of the year when it is unavailable. Any recipes, macerations, preservation methods would be great.

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Jimmy Durnin Sun Jul 2 2006

where can i buy wild garlic seeds or plants

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MartinJ Sun Jul 2 2006

Jimmy, check the post above on Fri Apr 28 2006 - they sell the bulbs

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PETE C. WHITBY Sat Jul 8 2006

WILD GARLIC GROWS ALONG THE CARRS RUSWARP NEAR WHITBY N YORKS & IN THE VALLEY GARDENS AT SALTBURN BY THE SEA.

Allium ursinum, Wild Garlic

Thu Aug 3 2006

In Wiltshire the plant can be found all the way up Derry Hill, on the way into Calne.

Climate Camp- SouthWest Bloc

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json Sun Dec 10 2006

I live in North Carolina, United States, and this stuff grows everywhere. Most people have a hard time keeping it out of their lawn during the winter months...

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Ken Fern, Plants for a Future Sun Dec 17 2006

I think json has probably misidentified this plant. Allium ursinum has quite wide leaves, unlike most other Alliums, and produces white flowers in the spring. In America, Allium vineale is commonly called wild garlic. This is a slender plant with the thin round leaves we associate with Alliums. Instead of producing flowers, this plant produces small bulbs at the top of its flowering stem. Introduced from Europe, Allium vineale is a common weed of lawns and meadows, it has been declared a noxious weed in some American States.

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Gordon Carpenter Mon Feb 19 2007

how do I rid my garden of Wild Garlic, it is taking over, the more I dig out the more it comes

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Chrissie Thu Mar 1 2007

Chrissie Thurs 1 March 2007 Where in Hertfordshire can I find Wild Garlic Growing

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Ken Fern, Plants for a Future Sun Mar 4 2007

The best starting point to finding the location of any plant in your locality is your local library. Here, they are almost certain to have a local flora and will also be able to give you details of any local botanical groups.

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Wed Mar 28 2007

I live in devon, and the wild garlic is a pest yes the flowers are pretty! but the smell is bad and its taken over the whole lawn, pulling the bulbs out only seem to make it worse the next year! They are a nightmare!

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Jeanne Hannah Mon Apr 9 2007

Im trying to naturalize part of my garden where I have a collection of over 100 Lilac Bushes. I was thinking to add wild garlic and want to know how strong is the smell? We also have a Salmon spawning Creek and would like to know if it's invasiveness would be a problem for the creek? Maybe I should think of Bluebells and English Daisy instead.

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Tess Mon Apr 23 2007

It's all over Alderney in the Channel Islands, where I live. We've used it in hollandaise sauce for locally caught bass-delicious!

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rob mills Tue Apr 24 2007

Can the plant or parts be frozen so we can have it all tear round

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Sabine Schwartz Tue Apr 24 2007

Wild Garlic can be preserved by finely chopping the leaves and mixing them with some salt and a good olive oil. Fill into sterilised jars (the ones with a screw lid) and make sure they're covered with oil. Keeps in the fridge for about 8 months. You can also make a lovely pesto by adding freshly grated parmesan and finely chopped roasted pine nuts or sunflower seeds, which also keeps for 5-6 months. I use a food processor to make mine, and it's very quick.

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Sat Apr 28 2007

Wow! Yummy wild garlic! My dear John and I were frollicing around under and around trees last night, and we stumbled upon the fragrant aroma of yummy wild garlic! Was it for real? Could it be true? Why yes! We had found ourselves some yummy wild garlic! So, we picked a bunch, and carried it away home. We weren't too sure whether we could eat it or not, but are sure now going to give it a try thanks to the possitive comments that this webite beholds. Thank you for your inspiration and passion of wild garic! Peace! Emily and John xx (Bristol, Jacobs Wells Road)

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katja Tuominen Tue May 1 2007

Be carefull! It can easily take over whole woodland areas. I have seen an invasion in Sweden, Alnarp. It just kills all the rare native woodland flowers, like wild orchids. If you must plant it, make sure you know how to control it!!!!

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Scott Tue May 8 2007

Does anyone have any info on how to grow 'Wild Garlic'from seed.I have potted some up and placed on inside window ledge.This was done 10 days ago but no sign of growth yet.Is it better to plant outdoors now(May/North west of England).What growing conditions are best for Wild Garlic(Allium Ursinium) to grow.Any advice would be great...Thanks..

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Andrew & Kevan Maitland Sat May 12 2007

We live in South West Scotland and there are acres of Wild Garlic close to our house. We picked some today and we tasted it for the first time. We both love it because it has quite a strong flavour and it is FREE!!!

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Norm. Cornwall, Ontario, Canada ! :-} Wed May 23 2007

Wild Garlics are also found in Cornwall, Ontario Canada ! Many of the older generation eats them like Candies. Though many like to eat & cook with it, most people won`t go to pick any, cuz they would not know what the plant looks like. While they are Good for you - They are Not so Good for the day when you have company over :-o

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Bernard Laizer Wed May 30 2007

I believe I have and sell this variety right here in CT, a good old new England state of the USA. I have been told that the Local Indian tribes would seek this plant out in early May as their 1st Forest Crop. I find it not to be invasive and grows on the Upland side of a small valley with a seasonal stream. There is a complete canopy of hardwood trees. I have 200 acres and this grows only on 1.2 acres. If you care to purchase to eat or plant go to http://localharvest.org and look for Country Corners Farm Thanks, Bernie

Local Harvest many organic products, fruits, veggies and more

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Martina LeGare Tue Jun 5 2007

I live in the US/South Carolina. I can't find Allium usinum anywhere!! I bought seed in Germany but found out that it is almost impossible to germinate (takes about 2 years!!!) Is there anyone here in the US wwho has these plants in their yard and could share a couple with me? Please help!!! Thanks!!!

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jic Mon Aug 6 2007

Helga Grant, the only way you could possibly confuse Wild Garlic with Lily of the Valley is if you'd lost your sense of smell. You can usually smell this plant long before you can see it.

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Rita Thieme Sun Aug 26 2007

Does anyone know where I may buy this in the US. I prefer to buy the plants if possible, rather than seeds. I've read that the seeds are difficult to grow. Rita

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Gibby Wed Sep 26 2007

As there appear to have been no responses to appeals for advice on how to eradicate wild garlic, do we take it that there is no known cure???

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Rich Wed Sep 26 2007

In respose to Gibby, it may be better to ask the question on our mailing list which has 500+ subscribers. There tends to be a very slow response to questions posted here.

PFAF mailing list

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Oregano Wed Nov 21 2007

Andrew Mortimer asked about preserving wild garlic. We have grown our own and preserved wild garlic by either keeping it in oil or making pesto. Postings on wild garlic are on my blog http://foodfun.blog.co.uk/?tag=wild+garlic

Food Fun Occasional postings on wild garlic

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martin Sun Jan 13 2008

Germinating seeds:- I have seen a few comments about germinating the seeds of Allium Ursinum on this site and thought I'd give you the benefit of my experience to date. I gathered some seeds from wild garlic in the summer, the little round, black seeds are found in the wilting flower heads as the plant begins to go brown. As I had seen it suggested that I should plan the seeds immediately I did so, putting some in a pot and some in the garden. I watched them all summer with increasing dispair as none of them germinated. I more or less gave up on them but during the Christmas break looked at the pot to see that a number of them are germinating. So far they are little green root stems,basically the growth is downwards at the moment with no leaves yet but there are definite signs of life. If I don't manage to kill them I'll give a progress report some time.

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Michael Walker Tue Jan 29 2008

Has nayone tried preserving wild garlic by drying the leaves (either naturally or othewise). Any views as to whether this would work?

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ange Mon Feb 25 2008

I've been trying to find a source of wild garlic for a few years, with no joy. Does anyone know of any in Norfolk or Suffolk?

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Michael Kelly Sun Mar 9 2008

Sun.9th March, Michael Kelly Hello Garlic lovers!!!, Picked wild garlic today, near Beamish Hall, County Durham,and cooked it this evening with other veg., lovely, yummy. The plants were young and not too long in the leaf.

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edward edmonds Sun Mar 9 2008

what dose this plant look like please put some pijctures on web

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Mon Mar 10 2008

Found a source of wild garlic in Norfolk - Ashwellthorpe woods, near Wymondham.

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Jess Thu Apr 3 2008

I want to introduce this plant to a wooded area across a little brook. Would it spread back by wind seed dispersal or whatever to the garden side? At present there is nothing growing beneath the trees on that side and I wanted to make a carpet of these and bluebells. Good idea or will I regret it?!

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geoff edwards Sat Apr 12 2008

I know this plant as Ransom in the county of Wiltshire UK. What I have been unsur of is which part of the plant is edible.

Lineone

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Peter Mon Apr 14 2008

www.dgsgardening.btinternet.co.uk/wildgarlic.htm Above is a link to eradicate wild garlic. It grows in abundance in North Wales along the River Dee for them those that want to redistribute some bulbs.. I was lucky enough to get some from my neighbour two years ago. I planted the plants in a pot and it promptly died off and got eaten by the slugs. I put the contents of the pot onto the flower bed - and surprise surprise!- I spotted a plant in the bed this morning and thought. What's that? I broke off a leaf....aaahhh! Delicious! If it takes over the garden then I will think I've died and gone to heaven.

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larry lund Tue May 13 2008

Where can I purchase allium ursinum seeds?

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ruth williams Mon Jun 30 2008

growing wild garlic from seeds can anyone help me to get wild garlic to germinate form seeds

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khang Wed Jul 23 2008

If anyone has an abundance growing in their garden they are sitting on money! Koreans (i'm not sure if all of asia) have had a strong interest in wild garlic leaves. Because of the health and medicinal value, Koreans have taken to pickling and cooking with it. If there is a strong Korean community in the city or surrounding county you should look into creating ties with a grocerer who could sell them for you.

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Robert Mon Sep 1 2008

Hi I have purchased many packets of seeds from Germany, as I am there right now and I would like to grow them in Canada...does anyone have any tips on when to get started etc ??? Rob

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Vijay Kumar Fri Oct 3 2008

Hi, Good to know that Garlic is used for HBP control. In India, we get only one type and that is called Garlic. Is it different than the Wild Garlic? someone may help to explain. ..Vijay Kumar

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Fri Oct 10 2008

wild garlic is milder than garlic the leaves are wide (not long and flat like the garlic chive or round like normal chives)u can eat the whole plant. i bought some bulbs off ebay a couple of months ago.

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RaDonna Fox Sat Apr 11 2009

Seeds can be purchased at: www.TheBearFootShaman.com

The Bear Foot Shaman allium ursinum seed for sale

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larrylund Sun Apr 12 2009

Does anyone know where I can purchase some bulbs. The allium ursinum seeds I planted didn't germinate. Larry

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Gatherer Thu Apr 16 2009

Does anybody know where to find wild garlic close to either North-West London or Surrey?

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David Sat Apr 18 2009

I am fairly certain that the plant taking over my front 'garden' is the same as the ones carpeting swathes of the floor of Lydford Gorge in Devon about 35 years ago. But is that allium ursinum? Very invasive, very smelly and quite pretty at its full-flower best. The Jersey, Channel Islands, climate seems to suit the beast whatever it is!

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ren finch Sun May 10 2009

I just got a jar of 'pesto' from a friend who went hunting for the wild garlic in Switzerland. Made the same way as basilico pesto with olive oil.Delicious on potatoe salad, fish and chicken.Perhaps a new recipe for you

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