Growing Wild Garlic for Cooking

Growing Wild Garlic for Cooking

Wild Garlic

Wild garlic or Allium ursinum is also called Buckram, Bear’s Garlic, Ramsons or Broad-leaved wood garlic. It is a pungent herb normally found growing in profusion in woodland areas.

  • Wild Garlic flowers from the end of May with white flowers on 8″ stems.
  • Wild Garlic can be grown in the garden and is championed for the lush tasty leaves.
  • Foraging for Wild Garlic in woodland is fairly straight forward and it will be found in semi-shaded, moist conditions.
  • Wild garlic has a very similar taste to domestic garlic but is slightly milder.
  • The leaves are delicious raw or cooked and work well in salads and soups.
  • It is easy to grow from seed or bulbs (please do not take them from the wild).

Wild garlic

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