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dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 18 8:38 am Post subject:
the conversation i had with bill and gary ( in NYC ) when i was asking for suitable containers to mix pimms was quite amusing. "can i borrow your jugs?" was rather confusing for 2 gay guys and then i remembered that a pitcher is not just somebody chatting to a commissioning editor

jema
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Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Wed Jul 11, 18 9:01 am Post subject:
and just don't ask for a fag

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales

Posted: Wed Jul 11, 18 9:31 am Post subject:
I've always viewed 'spring onion' and 'scallion' as being interchangeable terms but then I was born in SA.

billfromlachine

Joined: 08 Jul 2018
Posts: 26
Location: Montreal Canada

Posted: Wed Jul 11, 18 3:19 pm Post subject:

Shan,

What we call scallions/green onions in North America do not make bulbs and are grown primarily for their green tops. It's also much used in Chinese cooking the chop in up and put in raw in soups or add to stir fries, etc....

Unless I'm mistaken spring onions in the UK are imature onions with small bulbs, someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Here's a short video explaning scallions/green onions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSeKPGGZG4o

Regards + HH

Bill

Shan wrote:

I've always viewed 'spring onion' and 'scallion' as being interchangeable terms but then I was born in SA.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15981

Posted: Thu Jul 12, 18 6:48 am Post subject:
Bill, looking them up, scallions and spring onions are not the same, but generally spring onions and the large ones we harvest in autumn aren't either I don't think. Large onions can be used as spring onions, but think they are slightly different usually.

pollyanna

Joined: 03 Nov 2012
Posts: 221

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 18 2:57 pm Post subject:
In the South Wales valleys they were called gibbons; but I haven't heard them called thus since my childhood.

billfromlachine

Joined: 08 Jul 2018
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Location: Montreal Canada

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 18 5:17 pm Post subject:

pollyanna,

I checked and it appears gibbons or jibbons is a term for them predominently in Wales.

Here's some more info to mull over....lol.

https://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061109085024AArrxoN

pollyanna wrote:

In the South Wales valleys they were called gibbons; but I haven't heard them called thus since my childhood.

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6612
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 18 8:41 pm Post subject:
Bill do you get into eating any ramps in the spring? They don't have the species in the U.K. (to my knowledge) but they do have ramsons which are also a wild allium. (Just thought I'd throw out some more confusing allium names for people to mull over)

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 18 9:16 pm Post subject:
three cornered leek, a small allium which (as you guessed ) a triangular stem. quite tasy just for fun garlic mustard (which is not an allium but one of the brassicas ) and also called jack by the hedge is a bit strong but a little is ok in a mixed salad or minor potherb

billfromlachine

Joined: 08 Jul 2018
Posts: 26
Location: Montreal Canada

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 18 9:33 pm Post subject:

Slim,

We do have wild garlic or ramps growing where I live. Since the wild ones have been overharvested by people were restricted to harvest 25 bulbs max, which certainly isnt much to last the year.

My dental hygienist has a patch growing in her garden so maybe if I suck up to her she will give me some to replant in my garden. Just have to bring her some home made preserves as barter medium.

Her father gave her some which he picked in the country to start the patch so it keeps expanding.

Here is a video of someone harvesting them in Ohio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nptiaHxTr0I

Regards

Bill

Slim wrote:

Bill do you get into eating any ramps in the spring?
They don't have the species in the U.K. (to my knowledge) but they do have ramsons which are also a wild allium.

(Just thought I'd throw out some more confusing allium names for people to mull over)

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
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Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 18 9:42 pm Post subject:
It's a long process, but you can gather seeds (well, you can here, check your own Canadian rules first!) If you get them into some good ground with leaf litter by the fall you may see the tiny seedlings next spring - but they won't be worth harvesting for years!

billfromlachine

Joined: 08 Jul 2018
Posts: 26
Location: Montreal Canada

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 18 11:25 pm Post subject:

Slim,

Yep Ill definitely go with an established clump in a barter exchange rather than waiting many years for the first harvest.

Regards

Bill

Slim wrote:

It's a long process, but you can gather seeds (well, you can here, check your own Canadian rules first!)

If you get them into some good ground with leaf litter by the fall you may see the tiny seedlings next spring - but they won't be worth harvesting for years!

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15981

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 18 7:20 am Post subject:
Your ramps are rather different from our wild garlic. For a start, wild garlic leaves are used rather than the bulbs. We have lots of it in the woods, and have found the only way to control it is by letting the light in, although it comes back when the canopy closes again. Our wild garlic has very tiny bulbs, so not really worth eating. The flowers are also used by some people in a salad.

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 18 7:19 pm Post subject:
Flowers are also rather nice sprinkled on top of a soup.

Ty Gwyn

Joined: 22 Sep 2010
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Location: Lampeter

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 18 9:31 pm Post subject:

pollyanna wrote:

In the South Wales valleys they were called gibbons; but I haven't heard them called thus since my childhood.

In the Welsh speaking parts of the South Wales valley`s your Gibbons are called Shibwns,

My Granny,my Mothers Mother from Hereford called them Gibbons.

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