Wild Garlic (Allium vineale) can be difficult to remove from your garden. Another way of harvesting that gives a slightly different product is to dig up a clump and then prepare the individual plants by cutting off the roots and removing the sheath of the bulb. Use a fresh standard growing medium. I suspect the vegetatively produced bulblings get transplanted by ants, since I never see the plants bloom. At least here in Washington state we do. The leaves are best enjoyed before the plants bloom. In a garden situation it is very easy to raise pH by adding lime or wood ash. Really enjoy your blog by the way. Interestingly, the usually reliable Plants for a Future database has a description of A. tricoccum that is considerably different from those to be found everywhere else. A lot of the forestry trees and other plants we use here in Scotland come from the Pacific Northwest due to the similar climate, so I imagine wild garlic should grow well with you if you can get it started. Alternatively the dormant period is long enough that you could fit in another crop or a green manure, or interplant wild garlic with another perennial that makes use of the later part of the year. My own patch is rather more modest, but wild garlic definitely does tend to take over if you let it. I make traditional basil pesto and started making cilantro pesto last year because my garden is overrun with both herbs. Wish I’d seen this website a few weeks ago. The only difference I can see is that the leaves are much narrower. It is worth growing some wild garlic in the deepest shade you can find, in which case it will persist until midsummer. The shoots are a great substitute for spring onions when cooked, particularly in stir fries. Garlic can be successfully grown in pots. I generally put my wild garlic leaves in a bowl of cold water for five minutes as soon as I get home, to preserve and wash them. The flowers look amazing in a salad. Their habit of dying down in the summer makes them easy to manage as you can choose this time to top-dress them, mulch them or hoe over the top of the bulbs. I’ve got a patch growing nicely in the garden and am amazed at how readily they spread. Like any bulb, the best time is when they are dormant, but it’s generally more practical when they are in leaf and they seem pretty resilient at all stages. Wild garlic can be cultivated very well in your own garden. Look for clusters of white flowers. Grow your own Wild Garlic. I like to chop leaves into salads: whole leaves are a bit strong to eat in bulk but chopped roughly and mixed with other leaves they are delicious. The bulbs are also usable once the leaves have died down, but they are not as good as the bulbs of cultivated garlic and they don’t store very well once lifted. I freeze the pesto in ice cube trays, but I’d like to store it in sealed canning jars. Both are spring ephemerals, coming up and dying down early to make the most of the spring sunlight before the trees leaf up. See also: How to Store Wild Garlic. The whole thing then hangs together in a sort of ‘spring onion’ version of wild garlic. That said, it can be well worth the effort. Wild garlic can be used pretty much anywhere you want a garlicky flavour, with the caveat that the flavour doesn’t survive cooking for long, so you generally need to add it to cooked dishes near the end. ( Log Out /  Wild onion and wild garlic are easily recognized in the lawn by the strong garlic or onion odor they produce when mowed. Wild garlic will have a cluster of flowers at the end of a single stem. Hi Andy. You can chill the seeds in the refrigerator for at least six weeks. It grows in large patches across the woodland floor and can often be found alongside bluebells in England. 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