Wild Garlic - Allium canadense

[MikeH]

Jul 7, 2012 9:43:06 GMT -5 MikeH said:

Jul 7, 2012 8:44:52 GMT -5 edwin said:

We're working on it - transplanted about 6 patches into the edges of our forest area. Ended up hand watering them as the rain stopped. I guess we will know how successful we were next spring.

Yep, we've been doing the same thing with Allium canadense, Allium cernuum, Allium tricoccum, and Matteuccia struthiopteris. A couple of years ago we started them in a lattice-covered raised bed rich in leaf mold. Each fall we subdivide and plant some into the woods. This year the Allium canadense and Allium tricoccum have set seed so I'm going to try planting them in pots to start them.

June 8, 2012



January 10, 2013


Success rate was about 50%. Those bulbs from which I removed the very hard outer casing were 100% while those bulbs with the outer casing intact mostly rotted out.

[oxbowfarm]

There is a hard casing on the bulbils?

[MikeH]

The shiny green covering on each bulbil that you see in the top two pictures got very hard when they dried.

In the bottom picture, the bulbil in the top right corner still has the casing on. It's not that distinct but that's what it is.