Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Grubbypaws on March 18, 2022, 15:51
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Hi, I want to plant some wild garlic. Because it can be invasive I was going to plant it in a flower bed that is entirely separate from the rest of the garden. In this bed I already have a healthy productive blackcurrant bush. Will the wild garlic swamp the blackcurrant or will they be OK together?
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Sorry, don't know answer to your question but my plot partner wanted some wild garlic. We've got seeds which say sow in autumn but always missed the boat. So, sowed some a few days ago to see what happens.
Do you intend to use seed or sets?
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I have seeds. The instructions are to sow the seeds indoors using normal potting compost in March time (or directly outside in April-June). I sowed mine 10 days ago and nothing has yet germinated. The seeds were packed in February 2021so maybe they are too old :(
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be aware, wild garlic will self seed beyond any border you hope to set for it, but it's easy to pull up.
As for competing with a current, it's a short season - up now, flowering soon, died down by summer - and it seems to coexist quite happily with shrubs round here, but I don't know if the odour (which can be strong when it's in full flower) would attract or repel whatever insects the currant needs or hates.
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It's not a problem. I have wild garlic in the garden, in a piece of woodland I own next to the garden and around my greenhouse. Beautiful show of white flowers in April with peasant garlic odour and then it just dies back. As another poster noted, easily pulled up if it gets into unwelcome areas
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Usually grows best in damp ish shaded areas also be sure to pick a leaf at a time to you don’t get any other weeds among it that could be poisonous bit unrelated but I thought I put it out there 👍