Wild garlic contains many good ingredients, in addition to health-promoting effects on many individual areas of the body, it is said to generally strengthen the body. This is why it got its name: The Germanic peoples were convinced that the brown bears like to eat wild garlic after hibernating because it quickly helps them regain their bear strength.
In the kitchen it can be used just as versatile as garlic, only you are spared from unpleasant odors with wild garlic. This reason alone is enough for fans of Mediterranean cuisine to plan large areas of wild garlic in their garden, which can quickly become a reality if you pay attention to a few things:
Select location
Before you worry about the ways in which to bring wild garlic into your garden, it is a good idea to research if you can offer it a convenient location. Because wild garlic absolutely needs a half or fully shaded place, it looks particularly good under bushes, trees and hedges. There it should be placed on humus-rich, moist soil
Hit as much lime as possible, the wild garlic will have a hard time in pure sandy soil.Bear's garlic is actually not a plant for a very neatly designed garden, because it feels good in rotted leaves that fell from the plants above it. If you don't have such areas, you could bring in leaves from the outside. The garden will then look a little closer to nature. You should plan a lot of space for the wild garlic. Once it's comfortable, it will grow vigorously over the years.
If you do not want the wild garlic to spread all over the garden, you should even plan a rhizome barrier (root protection fleece) before you start the settlement.
Grow wild garlic
The choice is yours: wild garlic can be sown in the garden, planted as an onion or planted as a finished plant. However, sowing is a very tedious affair, because the wild garlic seeds are cold germs that need one to over two years to germinate. Even if they
If you buy pre-treated seeds in stores, you should be prepared for a fairly long germination time. And then it can also happen that the seeds were not fresh enough. Then maybe they have already lost their ability to germinate? This happens very quickly with wild garlic seeds.If you want to spread wild garlic seeds, it is best to sow them right away at the intended location. This can be in summer or autumn, then you can just wait and see if the seeds develop. The usual method of growing in small plant pots is theoretically conceivable, but you would then have to make sure that the plant pots are moist for up to two years are enough, and it is also not entirely unlikely that a layer of moss will form on the plant pots during this time, which will interfere with the germination of the wild garlic seeds.
The wild garlic bulbs are simply stuck into the ground like a normal flower bulb. The tip should be covered with soil about an inch or two. You can put the onions in groups of around four, the individual groups should be approx. 30 cm can be planted. The bulbs can be planted in the ground immediately during the entire delivery time, and must even be planted immediately as they cannot be stored. They should then sprout the following spring.
Insert finished plants
Depending on the weather, you can get wild garlic from this address between mid-February and the end of March. Here you can get wild garlic plants that come fresh from the forest, they still have their leaves and are after
plant and water in a few days.When planting, the bulb should be brought a few centimeters below the surface of the earth, the plants are planted at a distance of about a hand's length. Do not forget to water the wild garlic plants vigorously after planting them out. In the next two weeks you should also make sure that the soil does not dry out under any circumstances. When the wild garlic is firmly attached, it becomes more undemanding, but wild garlic generally prefers it to be moist rather than too dry.
Joyful self-sowing can become a nuisance
If your wild garlic is comfortable, you will now spend a few problem-free years together, but then it will come up with the idea of multiplying. Once it really gets started, it will spread unrestrained if you don't set any limits on it. Because wild garlic masters two reproduction strategies at the same time, it reproduces through onion runners and through seeds that industrious ants spread for it.
It has already been mentioned above that a rhizome barrier can be introduced to prevent the spread of onion runners. If you have not put this around your wild garlic meadow from the start, it is time to dig and insert root protection fleece. It is easier to slow down the spread of the seeds: you only have to cut the fruit before the seeds are ripe. The stems with the ball of small green balls at the end can be used for extravagant floristic works of art, but you can also pickle the fruit like capers.