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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: arobwk on January 14, 2018, 11:50:43 pm

Title: Is there any creature that will eat wild garlic?
Post by: arobwk on January 14, 2018, 11:50:43 pm

Are there any domesticated animals that will eat wild garlic (bulbs or greens)? 

Reference to "wild garlic" includes both ramsons and 3-cornered leek:  reference to "domesticated animals" excludes forum members  :) ! 

Title: Re: Is there any creature that will eat wild garlic?
Post by: Buttermilk on January 15, 2018, 07:31:25 am

Pigs?  When rooting about.

Title: Re: Is there any creature that will eat wild garlic?
Post by: macgro7 on January 15, 2018, 08:19:28 am

Goats, cows. Dairy farmers are always scared of them eating wild garlic because it makes the milk stink!

Title: Re: Is there any creature that will eat wild garlic?
Post by: Lesley Silvester on January 16, 2018, 12:48:53 am

My goats would given half a chance.

Title: Re: Is there any creature that will eat wild garlic?
Post by: Foobar on January 22, 2018, 12:19:40 pm

Sheep?


If you have some you want rid of dig them up and send them to me :)

Title: Re: Is there any creature that will eat wild garlic?
Post by: Perris on January 22, 2018, 05:33:08 pm

people - leaves, bulbs and ground up into a sort of pesto

Title: Re: Is there any creature that will eat wild garlic?
Post by: arobwk on January 25, 2018, 09:32:32 pm

Quote from: Foobar on January 22, 2018, 12:19:40 pm

Sheep?  If you have some you want rid of dig them up and send them to me :)

Foobar - do you really want your 'patch' taken over - once introduced, difficult to keep 'contained' unless you eat/cut every flower head or turn the sheep onto them to eat every flower head before seeds are formed! I'm just tackling a garden that is overrun with 3 corned leek: could probably send you several cwt of the stuff and by the end of summer I could probably send you more and, then, next year ....... LOL