Foraging wild garlic?

[Asteroidneenee]

Hello i'm looking for places where to get wild garlic. If you have a spot i'd love to pick some up!

[malumbu]

Tudeley in Kent. Not round here as it should be protected. Too many of us. https://www.walkingclub.org.uk/walk/tonbridge-circular-via-tudeley/

[siousxiesue]

Asteroidneenee Wrote:

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> Hello i'm looking for places where to get wild

> garlic. If you have a spot i'd love to pick some

> up!

I've been wondering about this! There is a Facebook Group called Pickling Peckham Urban Foragers, they might help

[Ruffler]

We picked some today in the Ide Hill/Toys Hill area near Westerham, Kent. Lovely bluebell woods in full bloom too.

[Asteroidneenee]

Thanks all! I did not know of the saturday walking club I might join!

[malumbu]

There is a serious point about foraging. Out in Kent there may be loads of wild garlic which will be OK to take a relatively small amount. There are 'gangs' of foragers eg Epping Forest picking wild mushrooms for market and destroying eco systems.

I once found a small group picking wild rocket on the Thames past Woolwich. In Sweden we picked wild berries and chantrelle mushrooms, but low population density and lots of land, plus it is something the Swedes (and Italians, Eastern Europeans and even the French do). A bit of cultural stereotyping.....

I saw some bright red spotty mushrooms on a golf course on a walk out towards Surrey, they looked lovely and I should have tried some......

[Asteroidneenee]

I am not getting your point about killing yourself with 🍄?

For the wild garlic i'm attempting to bring it to my gzrden but failed last year i want to try again i love wild garlic pesto.

Ang there's a difference between foraging and exploiting nature indeed...

[Annie5]

I didnt know about the Saturday Walking Club. Will give this a go when out of lockdown. Thanks Malumbu :)

[malumbu]

Mushroom anecdote was true but a bit of light humour. I could never find them when I was likely to experiment with this sort of thing. I should never have eaten that yellow snow they encouraged me to.

[malumbu]

Oh and cheers Annie4, it's nice out that way but a bit of pain to get to. The hop fields have gone but a few orchards remain. There are other areas around there with plenty of elderflowers in the summer too.

[Huggers]

I have the three headed leek species of wild garlic and it?s v invasive. I can cut some if you want but I wouldn?t advise introducing it into your garden.

[siousxiesue]

Huggers Wrote:

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> I have the three headed leek species of wild

> garlic and it?s v invasive. I can cut some if you

> want but I wouldn?t advise introducing it into

> your garden.

Would it survive in a pot?

[Huggers]

Definitely would survive but might escape!

[Asteroidneenee]

Still lookikg as it was in the end not wild garlic that Huggers got in the garden! It is three cornered leek https://www.wildfooduk.com/edible-wild-plants/three-cornered-leek/

[Huggers]

Yes I did say that?s what it was upthread!

Asteroidneenee Wrote:

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> Still lookikg as it was in the end not wild garlic

> that Huggers got in the garden! It is three

> cornered leek

> https://www.wildfooduk.com/edible-wild-plants/thre

> e-cornered-leek/

[Asteroidneenee]

Indeed i must have been blinded by my hunger for wild garlic! All. Appologise to you Huggers!

Huggers Wrote:

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> Yes I did say that?s what it was upthread!

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> Asteroidneenee Wrote:

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> > Still lookikg as it was in the end not wild

> garlic

> > that Huggers got in the garden! It is three

> > cornered leek

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> https://www.wildfooduk.com/edible-wild-plants/thre

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> > e-cornered-leek/

[Huggers]

No apologies needed! My pleasure and hope you can use it in something delicious!

[malumbu]

I made a wild garlic and home made pappardelle (chunky pasta) https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/wild_garlic_langoustine_02012, as seen on Saturday Kitchen. I didn't use langoustine as don't eat animals.

First time both for the sauce and making pasta - very messy but will give it another go