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Hello I would like some advice or feedback on some garlic seed "miniature
cloves" given to me last year. I was told it wild and native to the UK. The
name given me is Jack by the Hedge. It grows to about 3ft. high and flowers
with mini seed which sprouts on the parent plant. Question is it good to eat
or best left as decorative.

If it's Jack-by-the-hedge, then it's not actually a garlic or onion at
all, it's a garlic flavoured member of the cabbage family, also known as
garlic mustard. It's edible (ie non-poisonous) but not as good as the
real thing. I wouldn't describe it as decorative - like a white and less
showy version of honesty or of dame's violet. But it's vigorous and easy
to grow, self seeding everywhere.

But if what you've got is like a miniature garlic clove rather than a
seed, then it could be wild garlic or ramsons - which I've never heard
called 'jack by the hedge'. That certainly is decorative - shiny leaves
shaped rather like tulip leaves, and clusters of white flowers. Likes a
shady moist area.




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Kay Easton

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