In article >, "AAaron123" > wrote:
>I answered you all yesterday.
>Maybe you see the replies but my news reader does not show them.
>Anyway, thanks for the replies.
>
>Maybe I should have present a more complete question.
>We plant garlic every fall (upper NY) and harvest it the next summer.
>We do not let them develop seeds at the top of the stems that develop (cut
>stems off).
>But somehow new garlic plants show up in the garden.
>Some surprisingly far from the planted ones.
>Don't know where the seeds come from or how these plants get started.
>No one near us plants garlic.

I don't think garlic has seeds as such. "Seed garlic" used for
planting has the same sense as "seed potato" -- both are
vegetative plant organs, not true seed.

I'm left wondering if your feral "garlic" plants are true garlic or
whether they are actually wild garlic which seems to have spread
world-wide in temperate regions. There's some info he

<http://www.dpi.vic.gov.au/DPI/nreninf.
nsf/childdocs/-9B2A7AB4FD562D03CA256BC800058E91-18953CC10B4D6BA3CA256B
C800062A07-ECC844336D72F0634A256DEA00293F8A-138E0D572F65AD1DCA256BCF00
0AD54C?open>

Err... Bugger that, try it this way: <http://tinyurl.com/6849kp>

<quoting extract from above URL>
Wild garlic is native to eastern Mediterranean countries and probably
originated in the Balkans. It is an important weed of pastures and
cereal crops causing problems in most temperate regions of the world.
</quoting>

Mind you, I don't personally know that wild garlic (AKA crow garlic or
field garlic _Allium vineale_ L.) so I've no idea whether it could be
confused with the domesticated species, at least in the early growth
stages.

>So we have these garlic's growing that we do not need and I had heard that
>the greens can be cut up and cooked with eggs.
>
>That was what I was wondering about - if anyone had heard of that?
>
>What I was wondering was: do people include a lot of greens or is just that
>they add a small amount for seasoning.
>
>Or maybe I misunderstood and they no not actually use the greens at all.
>
>Or maybe there is another use for the greens.

Cheers, Phred.

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