Other common names for wild field garlic are Crow Garlic and Onion Grass. The underground bulbs start sizing up in late spring and hold well until autumn. Here's a video on how to find and use the flower stalks or scapes that have a short season: th-cam.com/video/L2EVqUVtuRo/w-d-xo.html Here is a different form of the same species (Allium vinale), that most folks call Wild Chives because you use them like chives: th-cam.com/video/7nUirr-bEKM/w-d-xo.html --- You can see the much larger scapes from Elephant Garlic in this video - th-cam.com/video/eRuadb28-vA/w-d-xo.html -- Do you like wild field garlic? I'd like to know. Happy foraging!
Ma'am, l'm almighty glad l found your site. You have a pleasing voice and are very knowledgeable and l am learning things l've wanted to know for a long time. Thank you very much!
Cecil, Holly has the gift of making others comfortable, like a favorite family member we enjoy being around. She always cleans her plate, so you know it was good.
i dehydrated and ground mine(backayrd is absolutely full of this stuff so much that when i moved in i just thought it was long grass!), and added ground lemon grass I'd grown, made a fantastic spice rub for chicken wings with smoked peppers from my friends garden, and ginger and then lime and some honey. oooo. so good. thanks for this video! I havent come across one that looked enough like what I had out back(im in southern ontario canada btw)
Thanks, Lorna J Bartlett! I hope you do see some wild field garlic, or another kind of wild garlic, iin your area. They are handy for so many uses. But they can blend in with other plants so easily.
Thanks, Squirrel Bait! I like wild plants that are so edible, tip to tail. I know I could eat those roots, too, but I just have never tried that. They would take more effort to wash! I hope you can find some of these wild field garlic around you, too.
So glad I found your channel. I have some growing in my yard and knew it was wild garlic based on the garlic scape on the plant. Thanks for your videos. You are a wealth of knowledge!!
Thanks for this! I’ve got a ton of wild garlic growing in my field so I’ll wait until it matures and do as you suggest. Hurray for free and nutritious wild food!
That's what makes it so hard to get rid of the Wild Field Garlic in cultivated fields. Every time a tractor goes through, or a rototiller, or even a shovel, those bulblets break off and there's a new plant the next season. Put that with the dozens of little topset bulblets that shatter in the autumn, and there is no end to these little garlics! I appreciate your comment, Richard F, because you point out how anybody can start growing wild field garlic in their own garden, for absolutely free.
You're so inspiring ! I've never missed a single video of yours since subscribing to your channel a year ago. Big Cheers from India 🇮🇳 I do have a request though, please make a video on finding mushrooms and their picking this year if you can and obviously the last request to give us a garden tour of the fruits and veggies there. Thank you for your time.
I was never lucky enough to find wild garlic but I've been making garlic and honey for boost immune system for a awhile. Of course, I've learn this from TH-cam 👍
I do hope you find some Wild Field Garlic. Once you see it and key in on it, you'll find it more places than you expect. Thanks for adding that you do this with domestic garlic, Kira S. Those garlic cloves are a lot bigger, lol. But your comment helps us all appreciate that wild food is real food, just maybe a little smaller sometimes. Happy foraging!
New to this stuff but i found a whole patch of this stuff on a corner in the city. I pulled a whole bunch of em but had no idea Wgat to do next.😂thank you❤ now i do
This spring I took the wild garlic and covered it with olive oil slowly cooked it very low heat , till they were just golden ,then removed the garlic and will use the olive oil for stir fry . I did not throw the slow roasted garlic away but made the very best garlic bread .
That sounds really delicious, EugenePatti V! I will try that myself with my next harvest of the wild field garlic! And with my elephant garlic later this year, too! Thanks!
New sub here. Your videos are so well done! I sure wish I could find some of that wild garlic on my land. I seem to recall seeing a long stalked thing with a little bow with the top. I'm going to have to go out and have a look again tomorrow and see if it's the garlic you're talkin about! Can't wait for you next video!
Ciao! Thank you for your recipies! I’ll try just now! With the green part i make a delicius pesto that you can keep in the fridge for over a year! I just use the green part some olive oil or any other oil and some salt. If you want it is also great if you add some almonds or any other dried fruit!
You got big bulbs there, mine are small. Ah, dehydrating the greens, good idea! What did I just put in honey? Well the ants found out, with turning the jar, though nothing leaked out and the jar was in a plate.... those tiny ants.... The jar is in a zip lock baggy now 😆
Uh-oh! I'm glad you found those ants as soon as you did, kleineroteHex! Good idea with the baggy. I usually use a moat system, with the jar sitting in a bowl of water. But that takes more counter space, lol. I'm glad you had some field garlic so handy like that. I hope you enjoy your results. And I look forward to your taste review, either way. These wild field garlic bulbs seem small compared to domestic garlic and Elephant Garlic, but I'm impressed with how much energy they put into their tall flower stalk. If only they could get that energy into their bulb instead!
I hope you find some, Angela Rae! If you don't, you may notice it more when it's dry, with the little bulblets on top. Or you may see it looking like wild chives in the fall, winter, or early spring.
Nice video! I will look for wild garlic! Raw honey and garlic are both great for the immune system. I chop up garlic and put with honey in a container in the fridge, then take a little bit on an empty stomach every morning. There are many more benefits for both of these too. This looks so yummy and love the ideas of how to use the greens! I have wild onions i can do that with. Thank you!
Thanks for sharing your experience, BlueEyesChick! It's so handy to have wild field garlic around, and other wild plants in the Onion family. They all have a little different taste, but they have plenty of uses. Happy foraging!
Good for you in knowing where you've got Wild Field Garlic, butch metzger! I don't think it's possible to over harvest this plant, because it's so effective at spreading through those little side bulblets, and from the tiny bulblets that grow on top of the flower stalk, too. This is a productive little plant. I hope you can try this out! I'll look forward to hearing how you like whatever you make with your harvest! :D
I just made garlic honey! Not the wild kind as I haven't run into much wild alliums this year. I love the box idea! I would really like to know what field guides you use, and do you ever go foraging in the local forests?
I actually do this, I also can the bulbs with a tender length of the green, as both sweet and dill pickle style snacks. Crow garlic, may very well be one of my most favorite invasive weeds, in fact I actually have gone thru the trouble of running a line of them in my garden, just in case I mow or hay my fields first. Always have it at the ready.
This was a great video! Also, I'm confused with telling apart the different mustard greens. Their flower stalks all look the same, so how should I go about distinguishing (for example) hedge mustard from field mustard? How about some of the other rocket mustards, as well?
I'm glad you enjoyed my wild field garlic bulbs! There are so many different wild mustards, in addition to all the garden mustards that can spread outside of cultivation. Over 500 species in North America! Some are native with a small region where they live, but others are introduced and thrive in so many places. It's one thing to ID them with their flowers, but it is a harder challenge when you want the early season greens, for sure! You've got me thinking about how to help out with identification more, in a way that lets each person get to know the plants in their own area. In the meantime, I"ll get some mustard videos on my list to do. Thanks, Tommy Nolan!
I am new to your channel and I have fell in love I will be at foreversubscriber I have a broke neck and back and spend most of my time in bed nowadays I used to be an outdoorsman and love to do things like that but I cannot do it any much I really want to get me and my two boys into eating out of ouer front yard especially with the c o r e d 19 going on I live in Abingdon Virginia I'm going to try to learn everything I can thank you for sharing the information that you know with your voice sounds so sweet and peaceful
Absolutely love foraging this, thanks for the inspiration. I'm a big fan of your work. Superb video & editing, I appreciate the effort gone into this, so keep up the great work, so really hope to see you back. I wish you a happy & prosperous New Year for 2022. James
Thanks for adding how you like to use wild field garlic, starless mystery. It helps other folks appreciate that these are really good food. There sure are a lot of them around!
Holly, that dish looked simple to process and more than good enough to eat. Yum! I will do this and when using the honey dressing on greens, I may add a little bit of sesame oil, for an added taste sensation. What plant growing in the wild, would be comparable to the flavor and or texture of 'bok choy"?
Is there a recipe to can the wild garlic to preserve it? When you put it in the honey, where is it stored? The fridge, or a shelf? How long is it good for?
I have the same questions as this person.... Along with an additional one. If I have left over from a past batch, can I add that on top of the new batch..like adding sourdough starter to each batch ?? Thanks in advance for your reply and I look forward to future videos
I am working on editing videos right now, Von F. Thanks for your encouragement. Editing my videos is where I get stuck! I have a lot of footage for videos that I hope you find interesting and helpful.
I dug a bunch today to make wild garlic sea salt. I'm wondering if I could plant the roots I just removed and start my own patch. It would sure be nice to have a bed of wild garlic outside my door as opposed to traipsing through the field with my shovel. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
You may be a little too far north, ETC. I know it's in southwest Ontario, up to the base of the Bruce Penninsula. You probably have the wild leeks or ramps (Allium tricoccum) somewhere nearby. And at least you have all those wonderful Ostrich fern fiddleheads! :D
I've had that fork a long time, Tyler Baker. I got it decades ago, from my Grandmother, who got it from her mother. My mom has a couple, too. They are enjoyable to use.
These are Allium vineale. It has so many different common names, like all the wild alliums do. The A. canadense has flat, solid leaves and is really an onion rather than a garlic. The A. vineale has hollow stems, with little ridges on them. You can see more of these A. vineale stems in some of my wild salad videos, or this one that's about eating the flower stalks before the seedhead opens up: th-cam.com/video/L2EVqUVtuRo/w-d-xo.html I hope you can find some of these wild field garlic in your area!
@@HaphazardHomestead awesome ty. I share this account with my boyfriend and he's trying to learn so I'll show him that, I grew up calling it onion grass, we live in the woods and forage alot, when we had rabbits he would pick stuff for them too. We have alot of mustard seed? Grass? I can't remember and a few dandelions, some kinda onion grass chickweed and plantains. I'm sure there's more, he does the plant stuff I do the animal stuff. I have what I like to call a black thumb not green. I've never been good with plants. I have one aloe plant I got when I was 16 I'm not 28 and it's huge, but that's it and my parents took care of it I just brought it home. Ty for the comment I'll show him that video you linked
I personally find it risky to not show the differences between wild garlic, wild onion and death camas on every video that discusses one of these plants.
Other common names for wild field garlic are Crow Garlic and Onion Grass. The underground bulbs start sizing up in late spring and hold well until autumn. Here's a video on how to find and use the flower stalks or scapes that have a short season: th-cam.com/video/L2EVqUVtuRo/w-d-xo.html Here is a different form of the same species (Allium vinale), that most folks call Wild Chives because you use them like chives: th-cam.com/video/7nUirr-bEKM/w-d-xo.html --- You can see the much larger scapes from Elephant Garlic in this video - th-cam.com/video/eRuadb28-vA/w-d-xo.html
-- Do you like wild field garlic? I'd like to know. Happy foraging!
Thank you!! ❤
Hi im put to dry leaves of fields garlic with parsley and grinding goes super good on meat or seasoning veggies
Ma'am, l'm almighty glad l found your site. You have a pleasing voice and are very knowledgeable and l am learning things l've wanted to know for a long time. Thank you very much!
Cecil, Holly has the gift of making others comfortable, like a favorite family member we enjoy being around. She always cleans her plate, so you know it was good.
This grows in my yard like crazy. I always thought this was Onion... But the leaves are indeed hollow so hey, tons and tons of wild garlic!
Yay! I'm glad you know what you have in your yard now, Mgtow Monk! If you use your plants, I'll look forward to finding out what you think of them! :D
Definitely an interesting idea to mix the garlic with the honey. I'd love to try it out some time!
It's good enough to give to people for gifts. It's so good!
Do you gotta can the honey garlic or is it fine without sealing?
@@furygeist No need to seal honey. It will last until your great grand-children are born and they can keep it for their great grand-children.
i dehydrated and ground mine(backayrd is absolutely full of this stuff so much that when i moved in i just thought it was long grass!), and added ground lemon grass I'd grown, made a fantastic spice rub for chicken wings with smoked peppers from my friends garden, and ginger and then lime and some honey. oooo. so good. thanks for this video! I havent come across one that looked enough like what I had out back(im in southern ontario canada btw)
That sounds delicious!
I am very thankful I found your page, I just picked my 1st ever batch of wild garlic and getting ready to clean it and process it. Thank you so much!
Loved your video really enjoyed it preciate it I don't see much Wild Garlic but I really think I'll keep my eyes sharp open
Thanks, Lorna J Bartlett! I hope you do see some wild field garlic, or another kind of wild garlic, iin your area. They are handy for so many uses. But they can blend in with other plants so easily.
Some great ideas there!!!!! Another winner!
Thanks, Squirrel Bait! I like wild plants that are so edible, tip to tail. I know I could eat those roots, too, but I just have never tried that. They would take more effort to wash! I hope you can find some of these wild field garlic around you, too.
So glad I found your channel. I have some growing in my yard and knew it was wild garlic based on the garlic scape on the plant. Thanks for your videos. You are a wealth of knowledge!!
I have lots of wild garlic in my yard. I will try the garlic honey. Thanks
Yay! I hope you enjoy the result, song yardbird. I hope you let me know how you liked it, when your batch is done aging in the jar. :D
You are one of the main reasons why I eat wild plants!!!
Thanks for this! I’ve got a ton of wild garlic growing in my field so I’ll wait until it matures and do as you suggest. Hurray for free and nutritious wild food!
They are very high price ib my country i am thinking to grow them in my village
Those little side bulbs are for planting for next years crop, (in your own garden), just like Elephant Garlic!
That's what makes it so hard to get rid of the Wild Field Garlic in cultivated fields. Every time a tractor goes through, or a rototiller, or even a shovel, those bulblets break off and there's a new plant the next season. Put that with the dozens of little topset bulblets that shatter in the autumn, and there is no end to these little garlics! I appreciate your comment, Richard F, because you point out how anybody can start growing wild field garlic in their own garden, for absolutely free.
You're so inspiring ! I've never missed a single video of yours since subscribing to your channel a year ago.
Big Cheers from India 🇮🇳
I do have a request though, please make a video on finding mushrooms and their picking this year if you can and obviously the last request to give us a garden tour of the fruits and veggies there. Thank you for your time.
Your ideas are clever and fun and easy to do. Thank you for helping us harvest delicious wild edibles, and making weeds useful!
I was never lucky enough to find wild garlic but I've been making garlic and honey for boost immune system for a awhile.
Of course, I've learn this from TH-cam 👍
I do hope you find some Wild Field Garlic. Once you see it and key in on it, you'll find it more places than you expect. Thanks for adding that you do this with domestic garlic, Kira S. Those garlic cloves are a lot bigger, lol. But your comment helps us all appreciate that wild food is real food, just maybe a little smaller sometimes. Happy foraging!
@@HaphazardHomestead appreciate all the knowledge you are sharing.
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New to this stuff but i found a whole patch of this stuff on a corner in the city. I pulled a whole bunch of em but had no idea Wgat to do next.😂thank you❤ now i do
thank you, ur the best
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I have to say, once I found your channel, I binged on all your videos.
They are super tasty and perfect in omlets.
Love your videos....so informative and easy to follow and understand!
This spring I took the wild garlic and covered it with olive oil slowly cooked it very low heat , till they were just golden ,then removed the garlic and will use the olive oil for stir fry . I did not throw the slow roasted garlic away but made the very best garlic bread .
That sounds really delicious, EugenePatti V! I will try that myself with my next harvest of the wild field garlic! And with my elephant garlic later this year, too! Thanks!
Just found a bunch on my walk today and brought them home! So glad I found your video so I know what to do with them!
I enjoy your channel. Thank you for sharing to others your knowledge.
New sub here. Your videos are so well done! I sure wish I could find some of that wild garlic on my land. I seem to recall seeing a long stalked thing with a little bow with the top. I'm going to have to go out and have a look again tomorrow and see if it's the garlic you're talkin about! Can't wait for you next video!
Ciao! Thank you for your recipies! I’ll try just now! With the green part i make a delicius pesto that you can keep in the fridge for over a year! I just use the green part some olive oil or any other oil and some salt. If you want it is also great if you add some almonds or any other dried fruit!
I dry the greens and make a powder and use for homemade ranch dressing . Yum
another great video and terrific live taste review. I wish I could find more wild garlic. All I can find is the Garlic mustard right now
You got big bulbs there, mine are small. Ah, dehydrating the greens, good idea!
What did I just put in honey? Well the ants found out, with turning the jar, though nothing leaked out and the jar was in a plate.... those tiny ants.... The jar is in a zip lock baggy now 😆
Uh-oh! I'm glad you found those ants as soon as you did, kleineroteHex! Good idea with the baggy. I usually use a moat system, with the jar sitting in a bowl of water. But that takes more counter space, lol. I'm glad you had some field garlic so handy like that. I hope you enjoy your results. And I look forward to your taste review, either way. These wild field garlic bulbs seem small compared to domestic garlic and Elephant Garlic, but I'm impressed with how much energy they put into their tall flower stalk. If only they could get that energy into their bulb instead!
😮 I just came across a whole patch of these yesterday.👌
Lucky you! And good job in noticing them. A lot of people just don't see them among other plants.
This is an awesome video. We love our field garlic around here. Definitely want to try the refrigerator pickles. Thanks!!!
Wonderful! I've got my eyes peeled for wild field garlic, thanks for training me how to look for it :-)
I hope you find some, Angela Rae! If you don't, you may notice it more when it's dry, with the little bulblets on top. Or you may see it looking like wild chives in the fall, winter, or early spring.
best video on the topic
Nice video! I will look for wild garlic! Raw honey and garlic are both great for the immune system. I chop up garlic and put with honey in a container in the fridge, then take a little bit on an empty stomach every morning. There are many more benefits for both of these too. This looks so yummy and love the ideas of how to use the greens! I have wild onions i can do that with. Thank you!
Thanks for sharing your experience, BlueEyesChick! It's so handy to have wild field garlic around, and other wild plants in the Onion family. They all have a little different taste, but they have plenty of uses. Happy foraging!
I can't wait to try the garlic honey.
If you do try this, feel free to leave a taste review about whether you liked it or not. I hope you do get to try this and enjoy it, too!
I like the honey idea.👍
Sounds tasty! I know where there's a bunch of it growing if it's not too old!
Good for you in knowing where you've got Wild Field Garlic, butch metzger! I don't think it's possible to over harvest this plant, because it's so effective at spreading through those little side bulblets, and from the tiny bulblets that grow on top of the flower stalk, too. This is a productive little plant. I hope you can try this out! I'll look forward to hearing how you like whatever you make with your harvest! :D
Good morning!
I bet that honey and wild garlic would make one interesting home remedy.
Yummy! I've got to try that!! 👍
I hope you can find some wild field garlic, too, Gramma Moses. It's really good. The little bulblets refrigerator pickles, too!
Thank you! I love the ideas of ways to use these. I have a ton of them, but was running out of things to do with them.
Love your videos.
I just made garlic honey! Not the wild kind as I haven't run into much wild alliums this year. I love the box idea! I would really like to know what field guides you use, and do you ever go foraging in the local forests?
Field garlic powder is amazing, definitely recommend. Just like garlic powder from the store!
I actually do this, I also can the bulbs with a tender length of the green, as both sweet and dill pickle style snacks. Crow garlic, may very well be one of my most favorite invasive weeds, in fact I actually have gone thru the trouble of running a line of them in my garden, just in case I mow or hay my fields first. Always have it at the ready.
This was a great video! Also, I'm confused with telling apart the different mustard greens. Their flower stalks all look the same, so how should I go about distinguishing (for example) hedge mustard from field mustard? How about some of the other rocket mustards, as well?
I'm glad you enjoyed my wild field garlic bulbs! There are so many different wild mustards, in addition to all the garden mustards that can spread outside of cultivation. Over 500 species in North America! Some are native with a small region where they live, but others are introduced and thrive in so many places. It's one thing to ID them with their flowers, but it is a harder challenge when you want the early season greens, for sure! You've got me thinking about how to help out with identification more, in a way that lets each person get to know the plants in their own area. In the meantime, I"ll get some mustard videos on my list to do. Thanks, Tommy Nolan!
I am new to your channel and I have fell in love I will be at foreversubscriber I have a broke neck and back and spend most of my time in bed nowadays I used to be an outdoorsman and love to do things like that but I cannot do it any much I really want to get me and my two boys into eating out of ouer front yard especially with the c o r e d 19 going on I live in Abingdon Virginia I'm going to try to learn everything I can thank you for sharing the information that you know with your voice sounds so sweet and peaceful
This was so helpful! I thought then things in my yard were onions! But they are garlic!?
woah I wish we have that here in Philippines
Looks delicious.
Absolutely love foraging this, thanks for the inspiration. I'm a big fan of your work. Superb video & editing, I appreciate the effort gone into this, so keep up the great work, so really hope to see you back. I wish you a happy & prosperous New Year for 2022. James
So, the bulbs are more sucker-like? Neat! I wonder if society garlic propagates this way...
When you dehydrate these oddly they dehydrate way faster than ordinary garlic or onions. I like to ferment the whole bulb and greens also.
Thanks for adding how you like to use wild field garlic, starless mystery. It helps other folks appreciate that these are really good food. There sure are a lot of them around!
Naice
Dang... looks great
We pick when they are young and chop like chives and use in recipes.
Holly, that dish looked simple to process and more than good enough to eat. Yum! I will do this and when using the honey dressing on greens, I may add a little bit of sesame oil, for an added taste sensation. What plant growing in the wild, would be comparable to the flavor and or texture of 'bok choy"?
As far as garlic goes, I'm famous for picking the wild ones down at my grandfathers house.
I saw in another video that the wild garlic roots can be eaten too.
Is there a recipe to can the wild garlic to preserve it? When you put it in the honey, where is it stored? The fridge, or a shelf? How long is it good for?
I have the same questions as this person.... Along with an additional one. If I have left over from a past batch, can I add that on top of the new batch..like adding sourdough starter to each batch ?? Thanks in advance for your reply and I look forward to future videos
Holly, are you still making videos? Haven't seen you in a while. Miss you.
I am working on editing videos right now, Von F. Thanks for your encouragement. Editing my videos is where I get stuck! I have a lot of footage for videos that I hope you find interesting and helpful.
Heck yeah
I have this at a new property we bought in SC, but when do I harvest? It's early April and they look similar already!
Knowledge
WOW. YUMMM!
It was, Donna Stevens, it was! :D :D
I dug a bunch today to make wild garlic sea salt. I'm wondering if I could plant the roots I just removed and start my own patch. It would sure be nice to have a bed of wild garlic outside my door as opposed to traipsing through the field with my shovel. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
I never found any wild garlic here in Sudbury
You may be a little too far north, ETC. I know it's in southwest Ontario, up to the base of the Bruce Penninsula. You probably have the wild leeks or ramps (Allium tricoccum) somewhere nearby. And at least you have all those wonderful Ostrich fern fiddleheads! :D
Where did you get that cool fork?
I've had that fork a long time, Tyler Baker. I got it decades ago, from my Grandmother, who got it from her mother. My mom has a couple, too. They are enjoyable to use.
Can you replant the root?
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Would this be allium canadense? The ones around me don't get near that tall but maybe thats due to lesser sunlight
These are Allium vineale. It has so many different common names, like all the wild alliums do. The A. canadense has flat, solid leaves and is really an onion rather than a garlic. The A. vineale has hollow stems, with little ridges on them. You can see more of these A. vineale stems in some of my wild salad videos, or this one that's about eating the flower stalks before the seedhead opens up: th-cam.com/video/L2EVqUVtuRo/w-d-xo.html
I hope you can find some of these wild field garlic in your area!
@@HaphazardHomestead awesome ty. I share this account with my boyfriend and he's trying to learn so I'll show him that, I grew up calling it onion grass, we live in the woods and forage alot, when we had rabbits he would pick stuff for them too. We have alot of mustard seed? Grass? I can't remember and a few dandelions, some kinda onion grass chickweed and plantains. I'm sure there's more, he does the plant stuff I do the animal stuff. I have what I like to call a black thumb not green. I've never been good with plants. I have one aloe plant I got when I was 16 I'm not 28 and it's huge, but that's it and my parents took care of it I just brought it home. Ty for the comment I'll show him that video you linked
@@HaphazardHomestead we also have a patch of wineberrys but there really hard to get to and will be moving this week sadly.
The species is considered invasive in the US ......so please eat as much as you can! ;D
Give me your knowledge please
Hai however I am fine i want Wild garlic seds
I personally find it risky to not show the differences between wild garlic, wild onion and death camas on every video that discusses one of these plants.