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Post by richardw on Oct 1, 2018 20:40:46 GMT -5
I heard from a friend there was wild garlic growing on the side of the main highway so i went and had a look at it, it has a mostly flat leaf and smells like it, bit early to tell yet but the scape will tell me more in a few months, its spread about 200m along the road
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Post by walt on Oct 2, 2018 12:10:06 GMT -5
There are lots of roadside garlic here in Kansas, USA. That is why I haven't got into breeding true seed garlic. Interesting project, but I harvest all the garlic I want from roadsides. The cloves are small, but lots of them.
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Post by richardw on Oct 2, 2018 13:36:33 GMT -5
I'm holding judgment on what it is till summer, but in the meantime i need to go and dig some up and bring home because the roadside mowers will be due at some stage.
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Post by richardw on Oct 2, 2018 13:41:39 GMT -5
There are lots of roadside garlic here in Kansas, USA. That is why I haven't got into breeding true seed garlic. Interesting project, but I harvest all the garlic I want from roadsides. The cloves are small, but lots of them. So what would happen to that garlic if grown in your garden, stay small? |
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Post by reed on Oct 2, 2018 15:16:32 GMT -5
What I find wild will grow bigger if divided and cultivated but it ain't worth the trouble in my book. I just gather starts of any I find and add it to my collection. I much prefer letting it establish and leaving it alone. It don't seem to be as tough and hardy when cared for as it does all crowded in weeds.
I never had any problems with having all the garlic we need till I started cultivating it, trying to get bigger cloves or seeds. Could be, most likely is, that I don't really know how to properly cultivate garlic but If I just leave it alone and harvest either cloves or just leaves as we want them, I don't have too.
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Post by richardw on Oct 2, 2018 20:38:24 GMT -5
So if this patch is garlic it would have to have coming from overseas surely, cant see how it could have come commercial garlic given how difficult it is to grow seed here in NZ. May not even be garlic yet given the leafs are not flat neither are they fully round like a onion.
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Post by reed on Oct 3, 2018 4:13:59 GMT -5
I'v only found two patches of it growing apparently wild but they were both near old home sites. I'm sure they were just abandoned and survived on their own for decades. Never seen it in a situation where it looked like it might have come from seeds. Never seen a garlic seed, except some I got from folks on the forum, didn't have much luck growing them either but a couple that did grow are now in my patch.
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Post by richardw on Oct 3, 2018 12:49:42 GMT -5
This does look like it has spread by seed though going by how far its spread over. There are house nearby but they are set back a long way off the road and with a sheep paddock in between, I'm going past tomorrow so i'll be taking my shovel so as to bring a square of soil with plants back.
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Post by walt on Oct 3, 2018 13:07:03 GMT -5
There are lots of roadside garlic here in Kansas, USA. That is why I haven't got into breeding true seed garlic. Interesting project, but I harvest all the garlic I want from roadsides. The cloves are small, but lots of them. So what would happen to that garlic if grown in your garden, stay small? They get some bigger. But I generally don't give them much attention. They do OK with no attention, so my attention goes to other crops that do require attention. |
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Post by richardw on Oct 5, 2018 15:35:24 GMT -5
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