Growing Wild Garlic for Cooking
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).
