Transplanting Wild Garlic

Yorky

When is the best time to transplant wild garlic bulbs/plants? I use lots of it every year - salads and pesto.

It's for planting an old hen pen which is a mix of soil / hen manure/ gravel and is a mass of weeds which I mow occasionally.

There's a greenhouse in the middle of the pen and I'd like to have it surrounded by wild garlic

I realise it can take over.

Does anyone know how / when to transplant it?

galljga1

Apologies Yorky for hi-jacking your thread but where can you buy wild garlic? I have heard about it a lot lately and would not mind having some.

henryporter

Just dig it up in some soil and stick it in the ground where you want to put it and give it a good watering - remember it likes shade. Also remember it's a weed, so will spread like wildfire! It can be transplanted anytime, although if doing it now it will die back a bit, but will grow again next year.

As for where to buy it, not sure - but it's growing all over the countryside (just don't dig it up from the side of a road as it will be slightly contaminated)

marask

I got mine in woodies, bulbs for winter planting