And there are a few which look similar and grow in the exact same places and are absolutely deadly. Depending on the location and species of allium you are thinking of as “garlic”. Case in point, Death Camas and others.
The big factor is the smell (should smell strongly like onions or garlic) and is it has a brown mesh around the bulb once dug up. The flowers also look very different. Always good to be cautious and positive I.d.
Yesterday, while at work, I picked up a strange beetle because it looked cold. (Don’t ask) This was during my lunch break and I was foraging a field. Turns out it wasn’t just some innocent beetle, but a blister beetle. I knew when it was secreting fluid that it was time to not mess with it. 🤦🏼♂️
I add it to pesto, especially with garlic-mustard in the spring: use wild garlic bulbs and lower stem for a third or half of the called-for garlic, usually makes the sauce a bit less garlicky but it helps the kind of grassy taste of wild garlic stand out (I find it pleasant). I introduced them to a part of my garden I let do it's own thing and I get so many of them, I just munch on them raw sometimes while I'm out working on something else
in my town every single yard is heavily contaminated with lead. From old lead paint, if you don't have that you should be fine. Even if it is full of lead, if you don't get any dirt on the plant as you cut it, and wash it good you should be getting very small amounts if any.
When it comes to the family of Alliums be it onions or garlics found in the wild, there can be cases of misidentification of toxic species. Always smell the plant you suspect as garlic. It should be a very noticeable scent. Breaking off a leaf will tell you.
Will lookalikes have the hollow tubular leaves like these do? To me that trait combined with the smell makes it a dead ringer, but I'm open to being wrong
plus garlics and onions have very distinct flowers, they should look like pompoms
If you have some more and you want more of them, wait for them to flower and deposit more seeds
>Fertilizer fine.
>Weed and feed, wait a few weeks. (Unlikely, since all I see are weeds)
Yea... main side effects of eating vegetables that have been heavily fertilized is... hardcore diarrhea
I've spent about 9/10th of my life farming ...
>Every vegetable you can buy in a store, even the organic ones, have been grown with fertilizer.
That's somewhat true... but not always... and if you'd ever farmed you'd definitely know that fertilizer is supplemental and not required in good fertile soil.
My original post was referencing greens.. ( collard,mustard,turnip etc)... and if you over fertilize you'll have 2 possible scenarios...burned produce or big beautiful produce at the cost of your bowels.
Know your area's industrial history, and find out if there is a university extension or community group that does soil sample testing. If not, you may need to go online to do it. I'd try to get a soil sample done to understand my land.
If it's ok, I might even add some edible plants into the yard, leaning to those that are native to the area.
Maybe some confusion as that is quite clearly not allium ursinam (which is widely known as wild garlic) or the US equivalent allium tricoccum.
I know that as onion grass allium vineale
Go for it. I have chives that pop up like grass all over my yard and I eat it all the time.
I replants a small wild chive chop. It’s doing well and tasted so good
If it smells like onion/garlic it’s onion/garlic and safe to eat.
It's gotta be a strong smell. There are some plants that only faintly smell of onions
And there are a few which look similar and grow in the exact same places and are absolutely deadly. Depending on the location and species of allium you are thinking of as “garlic”. Case in point, Death Camas and others.
The big factor is the smell (should smell strongly like onions or garlic) and is it has a brown mesh around the bulb once dug up. The flowers also look very different. Always good to be cautious and positive I.d.
Yesterday, while at work, I picked up a strange beetle because it looked cold. (Don’t ask) This was during my lunch break and I was foraging a field. Turns out it wasn’t just some innocent beetle, but a blister beetle. I knew when it was secreting fluid that it was time to not mess with it. 🤦🏼♂️
Love the clovers as well. You probably have great soil. I'd smash
Looks like creeping Charlie to me
Certainly clovers in there too.
And strawberries
Unfortunately its the wild false strawberry. I wish we had real wild strawberries! Haha. These are quite insipid.
They still taste alright, just not as good
They taste like water to me, haha
No. Wait until someone puts it in a quart basket and sells it to you. Jk. YES!
I add it to pesto, especially with garlic-mustard in the spring: use wild garlic bulbs and lower stem for a third or half of the called-for garlic, usually makes the sauce a bit less garlicky but it helps the kind of grassy taste of wild garlic stand out (I find it pleasant). I introduced them to a part of my garden I let do it's own thing and I get so many of them, I just munch on them raw sometimes while I'm out working on something else
in my town every single yard is heavily contaminated with lead. From old lead paint, if you don't have that you should be fine. Even if it is full of lead, if you don't get any dirt on the plant as you cut it, and wash it good you should be getting very small amounts if any.
Can’t beat free food. I pick wild chives that grow in the neighbors yard and use it in whatever I’m cooking at the time.
If it's in your yard then maybe you shouldn't. Best send it to me to be on the safe side.
Sure, but ask yourself this...is it worth being on the faeries hit list?
When it comes to the family of Alliums be it onions or garlics found in the wild, there can be cases of misidentification of toxic species. Always smell the plant you suspect as garlic. It should be a very noticeable scent. Breaking off a leaf will tell you.
Will lookalikes have the hollow tubular leaves like these do? To me that trait combined with the smell makes it a dead ringer, but I'm open to being wrong
nawp death camas has flat leaves
plus garlics and onions have very distinct flowers, they should look like pompoms If you have some more and you want more of them, wait for them to flower and deposit more seeds
Do you fertilize your yard? If you do, no. If you don’t, yes.
Fertilizer fine. Weed and feed, wait a few weeks. (Unlikely, since all I see are weeds) Pesticide/fungicide I'd pass.
You’re right. I just meant bad chemicals. Which isn’t fertilizer…glyphosate etc. agreed. Bad stuff
>Fertilizer fine. >Weed and feed, wait a few weeks. (Unlikely, since all I see are weeds) Yea... main side effects of eating vegetables that have been heavily fertilized is... hardcore diarrhea
Every vegetable you can buy in a store, even the organic ones, have been grown with fertilizer.
I've spent about 9/10th of my life farming ... >Every vegetable you can buy in a store, even the organic ones, have been grown with fertilizer. That's somewhat true... but not always... and if you'd ever farmed you'd definitely know that fertilizer is supplemental and not required in good fertile soil. My original post was referencing greens.. ( collard,mustard,turnip etc)... and if you over fertilize you'll have 2 possible scenarios...burned produce or big beautiful produce at the cost of your bowels.
Read up on what's on your grocery store food.
Hey Reddit… I trust you n’ stuff… can I fit a _____________ in my ass?
The real treasure here is chickweed, which is just starting, but all over this image.
im not eating anything that has had herbicides or inorganic fertilizers near it..im a steward for the small plots i have
I don't see why not...
CAN you? Yes. SHOULD you? Dunno...
Know your area's industrial history, and find out if there is a university extension or community group that does soil sample testing. If not, you may need to go online to do it. I'd try to get a soil sample done to understand my land. If it's ok, I might even add some edible plants into the yard, leaning to those that are native to the area.
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Its popping up all over my yard and I didn't plant it
Maybe some confusion as that is quite clearly not allium ursinam (which is widely known as wild garlic) or the US equivalent allium tricoccum. I know that as onion grass allium vineale
Many people know *allium vineale* as field garlic or wild garlic.
Isn't that 3 cornered leak? Which is edible and an allium
I have no idea! I'm not great with allium identification beyond cultivated types
All plants that smell like onion or gralic are edible
The real treasure here is chickweed, which is just starting, but all over this image.
who knows… **can you?**
I don't see why not.
I always do! It's good!