"Rusty Hinge" wrote in message
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Bill Grey wrote:
"K" wrote in message
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Kate Morgan writes
I would like to establish a biggish area of wild garlic, what would be
the best thing to do, use plants or bulbs

Do you mean, plant while they're growing or plant while they're dormant?

I've never tried planting them, though I have tried moving a few plants.
My observations are a) they grow very deep, from memory more than 6
inches down b) they're keen self-seeders, so you wouldn't need to plant
them very densely.
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Kay

Allium Ursinum (wild garlic) certainly spreads like mad and soon we'll be
able to detect it'ss distinctive scent especially alongside waterways,
river banks and the like. I don't know about propagating it, but I would
have thought bulbs would be the answer.

Does anyone have any recipes in which wild garlic can be used to
advantage: I dod oncespoke to a chef, asking what I could put wild garlic
in - he said "The compost heap" .

He wasn't a chef, then.

Well a sarcastic one not wanting to give away his secrets :-)

Whatever you'd use chives for, but more so. Casseroles, adding leaves
and/or bulbs (sparingly) to stir-fry, placing inside an onion inside a
chicken when you roast it - the uses are endless, and IMO, much nicer than
garlic.

I like a leaf or two with ham in a sandwich.

Bill