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Post by roofgardener on Apr 3, 2018 10:30:15 GMT
A minor mystery has emerged in my Sisters garden... and I wonder if anyone here can shed any light on it ?
"What looks like an onion" ?
Up in the Orchard Plot (a 20'x 40' square flower bed that contains some apple trees) a whole bunch of Onions have sprouted. Well.. they LOOK like onions. They've got the tubular "leaf", with a flat thin leaf to one side. They're only 4-5" tall at the moment.
Now, two years ago, we DID plant SOME onions in this area, but they all disappeared. Non of them reached maturity. And they where thinly spread. This NEW growth is far more dense... in some areas it is close packed, like a clump of chives.
We've never grown chives in my Sister's garden, so it can't be them. But I don't understand how these... "onions" - if that's what they are - could have planted themselves ?
I'm assuming its something wild that just happens to LOOK like an onion. Or could the original onions have lurked underground for a year, and propagate subterraneanly like rocks do ?
Any thoughts ?
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Post by Geumlover on Apr 3, 2018 16:51:54 GMT
Crush a leaf, if it smells like onion then it is onion. Could be wild Garlic which is an absolute thug.
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Post by grindle on Apr 4, 2018 3:54:23 GMT
Allium seedlings? or as geumlovers suggests, wild garlic
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Post by roofgardener on Apr 4, 2018 7:06:55 GMT
Thanks for those thoughts Geumlover and grindle. The thing that is baffling me is the sheer quantity of them. I could imagine the odd self-set "thingy", but 30-40 of them ? Ah well, all will be revealed as they grow, I guess.
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Post by SueA on Apr 4, 2018 8:40:38 GMT
I'd do as Geumlover suggests & crush some of the leaves between your fingers to see if they smell of onions. It could be that a seedhead from an allium or onion which was left to flower blew off, landed here & all the tiny seeds germinated close together in a clump.
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Post by sweetpea on Apr 4, 2018 13:12:36 GMT
if it is wild garlic aka ransoms as has been suggested then try and get shot of pronto. time will tell what you have there so just be patient until you are able to identify for sure.
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Post by SueA on Apr 5, 2018 7:40:09 GMT
I actually bought some wild garlic plants a few years ago for the wet wildlife end of the garden here as I love it, it hasn't spread though & only a few of the plants seem to be coming up this year, it's actually too wet down there even though they like damp conditions but I can see they could be a problem for some people.
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Post by Cherry on Apr 5, 2018 9:23:31 GMT
I used to have wild garlic in Scotland. This depends on a suitable soil. I loved it too SueA.
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