Wild Garlic

[casualman]

A farmer is allowing me to put some hives on his land this year. He told me that there is a lot of wild garlic growing near to where the hives are likely to be positioned. Does anyone know wether it will adversely affect the taste of the honey?

 

[Into the lions den]

A farmer is allowing me to put some hives on his land this year. He told me that there is a lot of wild garlic growing near to where the hives are likely to be positioned. Does anyone know wether it will adversely affect the taste of the honey?

Where there is enough you will get a lovely flavoured honey..........the plants stink but the honey is lovely delicate stuff..............the plant is often known as Ramsons.....and usually grows in damp yet well drained valleys, usually wooded. The town name Ramsbottom is derived from that.....nothing to do with sheep.

 

[mbc]

Loads of wild garlic round one of my sites and I've never noticed a bee on it or any garlicy smell or taste.

 

[casualman]

tHANKS FOR PUTTING MY MIND AT REST

 

[Hivemaker.]

Loads of it around here as well,in the woods,around the woods,all along the sides of the roads,around the field hedges....lovely stuff,i often pull a few roots/leaves and eat as i'm going around in the spring.

Here is a picture of a honey bee on wild garlic.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oz_walkers/3479013487/lightbox/

 

[victor meldrew]

Local name in these parts is "Stinking Lily"
VM

 

[Norton]

There are large amounts of it here in Cyprus, but I too have never seen bees working the flowers. Maybe they will this year after all the rain we have had.

 

[flytrapman]

Local name in these parts is "Stinking Lily"
VM

Ive not heard it called that John, Ive always known it as ransomes. Borsdane woods full of it

 

[Erichalfbee]

Here in Cumbria the old word for wild garlic is Craven, related to the Welsh Craf I believe.

 

[BILL.HEARD]

Loads of it around here as well,in the woods,around the woods,all along the sides of the roads,around the field hedges....lovely stuff,i often pull a few roots/leaves and eat as i'm going around in the spring.

Here is a picture of a honey bee on wild garlic.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oz_walkers/3479013487/lightbox/

Loads up the Teign valley, lovely plant.

 

[gingerbees]

pull a few leaves and stalks in spring, add olive oil, few chopped nuts and seasoning, blitz to a paste and use as pesto - makes a fab pasta sauce!

 

[Andy Coleman]

no idea about the honey, but well worth picking the leaves. Can be used as a vegetable, for instance cooking chicken breasts wrapped in them, really nice!

 

[Erichalfbee]

The very young leaves are nice in salad