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- Grow wild garlic in the garden
- Special features in the propagation of wild garlic
- Grow wild garlic over onions
- Sow wild garlic yourself
- Tips & Tricks
Grow wild garlic in the garden
The wild garlic (Allium ursinum) often forms dense stands on partially shaded forest clearings, which are best recognized by the white wild garlic flowers. For the settlement and propagation in their own garden, there are different procedures.
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In order for the wild garlic to multiply and spread well after planting, choosing a suitable location is very important. A shady to half-shady place under deciduous trees and shrubs is optimal for the wild garlic, as such a location comes closest to the circumstances of the natural sites of wild garlic in the forest. Basically, wild garlic can be propagated by dividing and transplanting the onions or by sowing the seeds. For both types of propagation, the rule applies that seeds and onions must be brought as fresh as possible into the soil at the planned location. In addition, you should protect the plant in the first two years of life, in order to be able to reap from a naturally increasing stock later in the larger quantities.
Grow wild garlic over onions
As wild garlic collected in the forest also always presents a certain risk of infection with the fox tapeworm or of being confused with poisonous plants, you can alternatively buy wild garlic onions from specialist retailers. If you have the permission of the landowner. you can also dig up some onions of wild garlic at a wild spot in the forest. For this you need a grave fork or a spade, because the Bärlauch onions sit in a depth of up to 15 centimeters in the ground and can not simply be pulled out of the earth with the leaves. Purchased and wildly dug-up onions are equally unstable and must be kept moist from August to autumn for transport and then buried as soon as possible on the spot again.
Sow wild garlic yourself
Fresh seed of wild garlic usually only germinates for about 4 to 6 months. It can either be purchased from specialist dealers or collected with the withered inflorescences of wild garlic. Observe the following factors when sowing:
Tips & Tricks
When sowing or planting the onions of wild garlic, pay attention to an extensive planting, as the population will later on densify due to self-multiplication.
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