Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: RJR_38 on January 06, 2013, 17:37
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I am just setting up my new allotment and I wondered if anyone knew how I could get hold of some wild garlic? It grew like mad in a woodland near where I used to live and I used it all the time. Now I have moved several counties away and I haven't seen a wild source anywhere so I thought I would grow some on the lottie in the shade of the shed. However, I don't know if it comes as seeds or plants and haven't yet managed I track a source down.
Any ideas?
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What a coincidence. I was just looking at this as I want to get some started at my new house. The Garlic Farm sells it on line but its not cheap (£10 for 12 bulbs) but it does spread pretty well so hoping once it's taken hold I will have lots.
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I bought some, a couple of years ago, from eBay. :)
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Quick question do you wild garlic growers have it in pots, as I was led to believe it spreads or is it not that bad, someone offered me some and much as I really wanted to grow it, I did not want it everywhere.
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Ah, bulbs would make more sense! I will look at both sources, thanks. As you say it spreads like mad so 12 bulbs should be plenty
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I bought some, a couple of years ago, from eBay. :)
So did I :D
It dies down every year and so might be available as small bulbils now.
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Saw these on ebay today.
150 bulbs for £12 and the money goes to donate trees for planting across the UK.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/125-Wild-Garlic-tubers-bulbs-Allium-ursinum-25-extra-free-Ebay-cheapest-/110997936079?pt=UK_HomeGarden_Garden_PlantsSeedsBulbs_JN&hash=item19d7fe17cf
Sounds like a really good deal and gives you loads to share!
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I looked at these last night - looks like a fab deal doesn't it! I shall be ordering this week!i never thought of looking on eBay it has to be said.
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Quick question do you wild garlic growers have it in pots,
No I don't. I haven't found it invasive yet. :)
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Quick question do you wild garlic growers have it in pots,
No I don't. I haven't found it invasive yet. :)
Thankyou arugula, I shall give it a go I think :)
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Out of interest. Is anyone who grows wild garlic harvesting yet? One of the chefs on James Martin's programme this morning used some in the dish he cooked saying its in season now and he's been picking leaves for a month already! :ohmy: Mine isn't even showing above ground. No it wasn't the rerun show. :nowink:
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Well I only planted mine about 6 weeks ago and it was a bit sprouty then and definitely has a load of leaves now. I've not harvested any yet as think it need a bit of a chance t get going but the smell when I bruise a leave is lovely.
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Out of interest. Is anyone who grows wild garlic harvesting yet? One of the chefs on James Martin's programme this morning used some in the dish he cooked saying its in season now and he's been picking leaves for a month already! :ohmy: Mine isn't even showing above ground. No it wasn't the rerun show. :nowink:
Mine is not up yet either --- it usually comes up at the same time or just after the bluebells in the woods
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Our bluebells are up in the green, along with flowering mini daffs, snowdrops, crocuses, daffs, tulips, hyacinths... but no sign of the wild garlic. I seem to recall it being more of an April crop... :unsure:
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April crop round here too. :)
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Our bluebells are up in the green, along with flowering mini daffs, snowdrops, crocuses, daffs, tulips, hyacinths... but no sign of the wild garlic. I seem to recall it being more of an April crop... :unsure:
Our bluebells are only an inch tall yet -- mind you some were only planted last year of course ;)
And we always had ramson flowers with bluebells, late April early May
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Our bluebells are only an inch tall yet -- mind you some were only planted last year of course ;)
Of course. ;)
So here, where Ice is and where you are sunny, April is the wild garlic time. I wonder where in England that chef is. :wacko:
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Somewhere they grow wild garlic in a polytunnel perhaps... :unsure: :unsure:
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Yes, I'm thinking that too. He didn't say that though, and he specifically mentioned it being in season which I woud construe as cheating if he's tunnel growing it. :nowink:
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I feel sorry for all those folk scouring the woods for it ???
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Never tried it do you use the tops or the bulb ?
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Never tried it do you use the tops or the bulb ?
The green leaves, which are large and flat, not thin like usual garlic Bulbs are realtively small
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Sounds similar to garlic chives then .
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We have wild garlic showing in our plots along the boundry it has about 4" growth
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Does it leave an aftertaste and smell like normal garlic does?
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you can buy wild garlic (ransoms) seed very cheaply on Ebay - 99p! I just treated myself to some.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/British-Wild-Flower-Allium-ursinum-Ramsons-Wild-Garlic-100-Seed-Edible-/360561624003?pt=UK_HomeGarden_Garden_PlantsSeedsBulbs_JN&hash=item53f325c3c3
there are also different looking plants from bulbs - that look like white bluebells. i don't know what sort of garlic this is exactly?
The ransoms seeds I just bought look just like the wild garlic in my local wood (which is a SSSI, so I wouldn't nab anything). I'm going to put them under the apple tree on my allotment
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Sounds similar to garlic chives then .
Similar, but wild garlic has a more pronounced garlic flavour and is not as sweetly chivey as garlic chives. I like garlic chives chopped into salad dressing or potato salads and wild garlic is a bit strong for that to my taste :)
The garlic chives I have are blue flowered, instead of the usual white and very pretty :)
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We have wild garlic showing in our plots along the boundry it has about 4" growth
Really? And you're in Glasgow, that's interesting...
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Its at about 4 " here too, but I am sheltered !
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Its at about 4 " here too, but I am sheltered !
And you are almost as far south in the UK as we get. ;) I googled the chef in question who said he'd been cropping for a month already and he is based in Torquay too. :)
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Its at about 4 " here too, but I am sheltered !
And you are almost as far south in the UK as we get. ;) I googled the chef in question who said he'd been cropping for a month already and he is based in Torquay too. :)
Not known as The English Riviera for nothing then
notwithstanding today's temps of course ;)
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:D slightly spoilt here ! No frosts but it does feel cold at the moment.