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Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9887
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 14 3:11 pm Post subject: three cornered leek
Just spotted some growing out of the top of the compost heap - anyone know if it is transplantable? I wouldn't mind having it as a permanent fixture - but not in the compost heap. I believe the seeds are spread by ants... I was hoping there was another way?

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 14 3:36 pm Post subject:
best way to find out is eat some and plant the rest

Mithril

Joined: 22 Jul 2011
Posts: 1755
Location: wessex

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 14 3:58 pm Post subject:
I'd risk moving it. But then I'm looking to buy some

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 14 4:24 pm Post subject:
Take care where you plant it, it's very invasive and on Schedule 9 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act in England and Wales i.e. don't plant where it can escape into the wild.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9887
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 14 4:54 pm Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

Take care where you plant it, it's very invasive and on Schedule 9 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act in England and Wales i.e. don't plant where it can escape into the wild.

hmmm so it is -perhaps better if I dig it up and eat it.

Finsky

Joined: 10 Sep 2011
Posts: 847
Location: Notts.

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 14 5:14 pm Post subject:

I have planted mine under black currant bushes where its growth is kept check.
It will grow in spring and I keep using it....and once the bushes turn green cutting the light out, they will stop growing and disappear till next spring again. Just like nature does it with spring bulbs..

They've been in their current spot for few years now and the clump has barely spread further..give them more room and less challenging 'bed' and they will take over.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 14 5:22 pm Post subject:
It's rampant here. I must have dug up a million bulbs this winter and I still missed some! Some of this was under trees and bushes.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9887
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 14 5:36 pm Post subject:
interesting that I was reading that NT at Greenway are having a fight with it - we went to the beach this afternoon to a NT car park - there was lots there too, right by the newly landscaped path...makes you wonder if it is travelling on NT people.

NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
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Location: Peeping over your shoulder

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 14 5:40 pm Post subject:
Hmm. What conditions would keep it healthy-but-contained?

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 14 9:57 pm Post subject:
It grows between the cracks between the path and the wall in the park here. It doesn't seem to need much room!

Finsky

Joined: 10 Sep 2011
Posts: 847
Location: Notts.

Posted: Thu May 01, 14 4:57 am Post subject:
Sounds like they don't like competition....and the soil under my currant bushes has plenty of it... I don't keep those areas weed free...far from it Or..maybe it is because I usually tend to drop pile of mulches on top of them in late spring...never seen single flower from them yet..no seeds. Where as wild garlic...oh well....that is another story..though they don't get 'blanket' over them..

madcat

Joined: 24 May 2008
Posts: 1265
Location: worcester

Posted: Thu May 01, 14 8:39 pm Post subject:
It's gone mental on the boat moorings and spread. Some came home with me and has got away in the garden . I'm planning a blitz on it . Very pretty but invasive.

lettucewoman

Joined: 26 Sep 2006
Posts: 7834
Location: Tiptoe in the Forest!!

Posted: Fri May 02, 14 11:08 am Post subject:
ah. Always thought that was wild garlic! whoops.....

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9887
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Fri May 02, 14 11:38 am Post subject:
now I have started looking for it, have noticed large areas of it by roadsides etc - we have a little dotted around here and there - but not on an invasive scale - so perhaps not the right conditions for it? sposed to be nice made into a pesto - but I don't have enough to try it

Mithril

Joined: 22 Jul 2011
Posts: 1755
Location: wessex

Posted: Fri May 02, 14 12:44 pm Post subject:
So, my plan on buying some for a small / medium garden might not be wise?

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