Well That Stinks!

Well I guess by your title of the discussion no pun intended! LOL I've always heard of wild onion growing but not wild garlic. So is it edible? With the price of produce the more we can live off of mother nature the better! It probably has a stronger taste if it is edible.

I love onion and garlic, but didn't know they were really edible..I have wild onion growing in parts of my yard, but I just cut them down.. I do have walking onion that I use for when I run out, like yesterday..

I love wild onions! You can tell by the smell which is which, but if you find wild onions, fry a batch of them quickly in hot oil and drain, then serve like a vegetable. They're kind of sweet and usually not as strong as cultured onions - definitely edible.

You have to be careful with those wild onions. My son eat what he thought was wild onions and got sick from them. I don't know what it looked like that he ate but he said it looked like wild onions. so be sure they are safe to eat.

Well that really is interesting. I have what I thought was onions all over my yard and now it might be garlic. Will have to go look at your report on the subject. But my donkeys and goats do smell after they eat it and boy the goats love the stuff. And also after I mow the whole neighborhood stinks for a couple of days. Good for you for finding out about this wild plant. They sure look like onions to me when I pull them up out of the ground. After it rains, I can pull up the whole plant. Thanks for the information.

I have never cooked with wild onion or wild garlic. I mean that's not to say that I wouldn't, it's just that I would be afraid that I would end up picking something that I thought was wild onion or garlic and have it be something poisonous.

I didn't know that but I don't think I know what wild onion or garlic is, I just buy mine from the grocery stores. I thought I knew that yogurt never goes bad but then I tasted some and it was just disgusting.

So I wonder which one I have been cooking with. I love the ones that I am currently using. I guess that I will have to do a search now. To me, it smells like an onion. I love the smell of onions. Guess after supper I will go onion/garlic hunting and figure it out. LOL

I would love to stumble on some wild garlic. I love garlic and we eat it with almost every meal. It is a healthy way to add a kick to our dinners. How lucky you are. What do you have planned with all or any of it?

we have lots of wild garlic - I love it! I love when we mow and its aroma fills the air. When the bulbs are not quite ripe I will use the greens in my cooking - very tasty. I have pickled wild garlic and it was wonderful - but very time consuming... and sticky! it appears garlic has a bit of oiliness to it.

I grow garlic cloves as well as garlic chives, they are both great for cooking and in our salads. I like the flavor of the wild garlic much better than the onion and it can all be used in the same ways. At first however, I did think that the wild garlic was onion chives until I pulled it out of the ground. Did you know that if you grow these on the perimeter of your vegetable garden it will help keep the critters out?

I just want to thank you for the link to the search engine! I do a LOT of searching for my writing job and it's nice to think I can get paid for it! I've done eleven searches in the past hour, researching for a couple of articles.

That's cool that you have wild stuff like that growing around you! I wouldn't have a clue what to look for!

I have tonnes of wild onion here but never thought to cook with it, I don't even know if you can - I guess you could? I would love to have wild garlic though - I would use it all the time!

Have you ever tried elephant garlic? It is a very pungent, spicy garlic. You can use both the bulbs and the leaves to cook with. The leaves are broad and flat. They have a milder flavor but very good in cooking.

That is what heaven smells like - Onions and Garlic!!! A few wild onions or garlic is nuttin'! I used to live in a rural farming area and was surrounded by thousands of acres of both onions and garlic! When the farmers would top the onions - cut the green tops off the full grown onions - to begin the harvest season, the whole area was just pungent! There was about a 4-5 mile section on the way into town that had onion fields on both sides of the highway and even with the windows rolled up the onion gasses would bring tears to your eyes as you drove past!!! I loved the smell of the onion harvest, even more so when they pulled the garlic! We used to find both truly "wild" and "wild-domesticated" ... ???"ferral"??? ... onion and garlic growning along the creeks and streams and irrigation canals in Colorado. I have used "wild" onion shoots and garlic when I have found some to cook with on camping trips.

Interesting Ldyjarhead! I never knew that about wild onions really most likely being wild garlic! So what did you find out about cooking with it? Is it safe to use at home? I actually was told the other day by my 13 year old son something interesting that he read on the box of Bagel Bites that he was heating up for an afternoon snack. It said that Bagel Bites are actually more nutritious than a peanut butter & jelly sandwich! Wow... I would've never guessed that to be true, but it actually broke down the nutrional context for both the Bagel Bites and a peanut butter & jelly sandwich. It was a real eye opener. My son especially liked the new info! LoL

Wow, well can it be eaten, or no? I personally don't like either onion, or garlic, but it would be nice to know. We don't have any of that growing around here, since it's an all new development and everything is torn up so they can build new houses.

Well wow I never knew that. I only like eating garlic bread...

You are not going to believe this. We once rented a house that had this really odd looking plant growing beside the garage. We would mow it down and in like 1 day there it was again. My sister came to visit one day and i told her about it. Showed it to her and she laughed because it was aspargus. How stupid we were. That is an expensive vegetable.