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- Can you transplant wild garlic?
- Put wild garlic in the garden in the right place
- Transplant wild garlic as a plant
- Pull wild garlic out of onions
- Tips & Tricks
Can you transplant wild garlic?
The wild garlic (Allium ursinum) is an important spice plant that is used in the spring to refine many recipes with a garlic-like aroma. For the arrival and resettlement in the garden there are various possibilities.
Put wild garlic in the garden in the right place
There are various reasons for the location of wild garlic in your own garden, because after all, it is not just a charming ground cover for greening bare areas under deciduous trees and shrubs. When harvested in nature, the tasty crop also contains dangers such as the fox tapeworm or its confusion with poisonous doubles such as the bar of Aaron, the lily of the valley and the autumn timeless. In the own garden these can be minimized with a controlled cultivation and on a fenced property, so that you can consume the harvested wild garlic on request also raw. The right location is the most important criterion for the successful planting of a self-propagating wild garlic stock. For example, the wild garlic likes half shady to shady locations under deciduous trees with a constant soil moisture and humus soil.
Transplant wild garlic as a plant
Basically, the following options are available for the settlement of wild garlic in the garden:
After sowing the seeds of the cold germ wild garlic in summer or autumn, it may take up to two years in extreme cases, to show the first plantlets. So it's quicker if you use the onions or the whole plants in the field. Outside of nature reserves, in March you can carefully dig up some plants from a larger stock with a spade. Moisten the plants by wrapping them in wet paper and put them back into the ground as quickly as possible. For the next two weeks, regular watering must ensure a steady supply of water so that the leaves do not begin to wither.
Pull wild garlic out of onions
Less care than transplanting the complete plants requires the preparation of onions of wild garlic. Purchase the onions from specialist retailers or dig them out in late summer when the wild garlic has already retreated into the ground. The onions must then be buried again at the same depth and should not dry out as much as possible in between.
Tips & Tricks
For transplanting wild garlic, choose a time when the leaves are already a bit older and firmer. Then the plants wither less quickly than if they are bear's garlic plants with filigree, young leaves.