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Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] BEANS & RAMPS &crows foot
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:00:03 -0600

I'm new to the list and don't know who wrote what about garlic but heres
what I have learned over the years about the allium family....In all the
books I see and in my old geezerette wanderings, I found wild garlic has
dark green with a touch of blue-green tube leaves and wild onions have
grassy green sorta limp flat leaves, just the opposite of garden sorts. I
have both plants....If you dig up a wild garlic it will have sections
just like a tame garlic but in miniature...and it has a STRONG garlic
flavor.. Most folks call this common plant wild onions, but it's
garlic..trust me....If a cow grazes on wild garlic the milk will taste of
it , if a critter eats it before you kill them for meat the meat will
taste bad, and if chickens or other fowl eat garlic the eggs will taste
bad....First time I tried it I thought it would be like eating scrambled
eggs with onion fried in but it's not.....I learned a lot of my gardening
and critter lore from a dear old friend who grew up in the wilds of
Montana, no schooling, just tutors and a wise Father....

Leeks have flat leaves like tame garlic....Garlic chives have flat leaves
that can be snipped into salads...and they have clusters of white flowers
in the summer that can be tossed in salads for a garlic taste. I bet if
you sprouted the seed it would taste of garlic. It is running wild in my
garden......All from a tiny pot I bought at an herb sale......I have seen
pictures of Ramps and best I remember it has sort of broad leaves.....not
like any other member of the onion family....I would like to have a plant
or two in my garden just for a conversation piece. Have never seen it
advertised to sell, so it may have to have a certain soil or climate to
thrive....Jeannie T
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On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:38:23 -0500 "Carol Hall" <> writes:
> Ok Lee,
> I` m going to disagree wiyh you OK???
> Onions have tube tops and all my garlick has flat tops just like
> ramps..
> I just came in from the garden..
> Now there is a type of chive that has tube tops and I have some
> chives that
> has flat leaves...
> Unless there is something else in those woods I don`t know about and
>
> probably is....
> Do you all know what crows foot is ??
> Carol
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lyman C Babbitt Jr" <>
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> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 4:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] BEANS & RAMPS
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>
> >
> > Dont forget Onions & Garlick have tube tops , Leeks & Ramps have
> Flat
> > Leaves ,, old lee, just keep it up & ill be sittin on your Door
> step
> > lee
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