garlic

 

Hello

2 questions about garlic please.

1)  Last autumn I planted some garlic cloves in a large tub, kept them in
the G'house overwinter. They have grown nicely and now have leaves/stalks
about 12-18" long. I pulled one up this morning. It has not formed a bulb at
the bottom, but resembles a large spring onion. However it has a fine strong
smell & flavour and I can use it no problem, leaves and all. If I leave them
a few more weeks will the others form bulbs ?

2)  What is 'wild garlic' ? is it ordinary garlic which happens to be
growing in the wild, or is it a totally different plant which just happens
to smell like garlic ?

Thanks

KK

 



Wild Garlic or Allium Ursinum,  Grows to be about 300mm high with a white
flower like a ball.  Smell strongly when in a mass.

Try Googling "Wild Garlic"

Bill

 



Probably: At some point, garlic changes mode from making foliage (which
manufactures food) to making bulb.  In my area (northeastern U.S.), this
happens mid to late June.  It's usualy done when about half of the  foliage
has turned brown.

Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/4 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G

 



"dido22"  wrote ...

May not, keeping it warm during winter is not good practice.
Garlic needs a cold spell to split into cloves so unwittingly you may have
caused them to form one large clove. It is as tough a plant as you will find
and ignores cold, so plant it out in the garden or put your tub outside in a
sunny spot next autumn.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsons

Totally different plant although a member of the same family, the leaves and
flowers are used in cooking but the bulb is very strong flavoured.

--
Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK
 

 

Bob Hobden wrote:

OK I've got a totally, totally different plant I always thought was wild
garlic but it obviously isn't. It grows strappy leaves much like
snowdrops (get a lot of those too) and grows just after the snowdrops
finish. It reeks of onion, has a snowdrop like bulb (although some have
a second bulb below the first) but the flower is really odd. the plant
has a stem with a papery bag at the top, there are a group of fleshy
seed things in the bag and out of the bag drops a narrow stem with a
white bell shaped flower. Does anyone recognise it? They're just
finishing now, grow in drifts in the grass.