The wild garlic seeds can be used to propagate the coveted plant in addition to growing them from onions. However, when harvesting and sowing the seeds, some special features of wild garlic must be observed.

Sow wild garlic seeds freshly

Wild garlic seeds lose their ability to germinate very quickly, which is why they should be put back into the ground as soon as possible after they have ripened. The black wild garlic seeds are almost spherical and about 2 millimeters in size. The wild garlic seeds are cold germs, which only break through the seed dormancy and begin to germinate after the winter cold. With mild winter temperatures, however, it can also happen that the seeds only enter the germination phase in the second year. But there are also certain techniques to artificially simulate seed dormancy. Depending on the region, the seeds are harvested ripe from the inflorescences in June or July. Then these are mixed with wet sand in a ratio of 1:3 and kept in a bag at room temperature for about 4 weeks. The mixture is then stored for around a month at temperatures between minus and plus 4 degrees Celsius before it is sown at a depth of around 2 centimeters and at temperatures between 5 and 12 degrees Celsius.

Harvest wild garlic seeds from the wild

Outside of nature reserves, you can harvest wild garlic seeds in nature if you transport the ripe seeds together with the withered flowers in a bag to your garden in June or July and work them lightly into the substrate at the desired location. Then keep the soil sufficiently moist in autumn and winter in case of natural dry periods. Please make sure that you only ever harvest part of the leaves or seeds from natural stocks of wild garlic in the forest, so that the natural propagation and regeneration of the stock is still guaranteed.

Resist the temptation

All kinds of delicious dishes can be conjured up from the different parts of the wild garlic, for example:

  • Wild garlic pesto made from the leaves
  • wild garlic soup
  • Wild garlic capers made from pickled wild garlic buds

Every leaf that you harvest from the wild garlic is missing from the plant for further development. Therefore, only ever cut off part of the leaves and buds for use in the kitchen, so that the stock in your garden can always recover and multiply automatically by self-sowing the seeds.

tips and tricks

It takes a lot of attention and effort to keep wild garlic seeds in pots evenly moist during the long germination period. Therefore, sowing on the spot outdoors usually brings better results with less maintenance.

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