[DenisCooper]

Hey

I planted some wild garlic last year and it’s all coming through now. I wondered if I should leave it alone for this year to get established before our king some leaves to make some lovely salads and wild garlic butter.

Thoughts?

[sabrina]

I left my plants for the first year. Now have loads. It does spread well.

[Fleecewife]

Is it worth all the fuss? Is wild garlic so different to cultivated?  I have never tasted it so this is a genuine question.

[Perris]

it's milder. The young leaves go in salads or make pesto of whatever. I've never tried the wild bulb but it's small.

[arobwk]

Hey

I planted some wild garlic last year and it’s all coming through now. I wondered if I should leave it alone for this year to get established before our king some leaves to make some lovely salads and wild garlic butter.

Thoughts?

Wild garlic or 3-cornered leeks ?  [Wild garlic has broad leaves (bit like the poisonous snowdrop and tulip) while 3-cornered leek has triangular stems and long narrow leaves (with leaves bit like the poisonous daffodil and wild lily).]
Both are very prolific, but the leek is the worst of the two and you might come to regret starting your own patch - of either - I'm sorry to say !  (I do a very very thorough clean of any tools I've used in gardens with either being present!)
All parts of these two are edible.  Never bothered much myself although I have sprinkled a few leek flowers through a few salads. Once had to politely try to make some way into a bowl of "chefy" wild garlic soup at a posh restaurant: ghastly, but it wasn't an occasion to make a fuss!

[Fleecewife]

We have 3 cornered leek growing in our strawb bed.  I want to move it to a distant hedgerow but Mr F wants to keep it where it is     Oh the small compromises we have to make 

[SallyintNorth]

Is it worth all the fuss? Is wild garlic so different to cultivated?  I have never tasted it so this is a genuine question.

Flavour similar, preparation and use quite different - it's leaves rather than the bulb.  Yummy free food, easy to harvest and use, fab in salads, sandwiches, quiches etc, makes fab pesto.... What's not to love? (Apart from remembering to pick from the middle of the patch to avoid dog wee...  )

[Fleecewife]

We once made clover wine.  We had sent our boys out to pick the flowers. The resultant wine tasted just like dog     

[SallyintNorth]

We once made clover wine.  We had sent our boys out to pick the flowers. The resultant wine tasted just like dog