Yes, Jack by the hedge, aka hedge garlic, hedge mustard etc etc etc. The food plant for the larvae of the orange tip butterfly so a good plant to have. It's also edible as a salad leaf or steamed/stir fried when young - but I prefer to leave it for the butterflies.
Garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata). Quite invasive in the right conditions (usually damp, shaded areas in gardens) and is rather edible. Has a peppery taste a bit like watercress as well as a nice garlic flavour.
Got loads growing under a hedge at the side of the allotment and it makes a great addition to salads. It would be the only salad ingredient left if the pidgeons and slugs had their way
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give it a sharp tug before it sets seed and it come out cleanly.
Never had it but think it's called "jack by the hedge". Have seen it on the forum, and recently in some local waste ground.
Yes, Jack by the hedge, aka hedge garlic, hedge mustard etc etc etc. The food plant for the larvae of the orange tip butterfly so a good plant to have. It's also edible as a salad leaf or steamed/stir fried when young - but I prefer to leave it for the butterflies.
http://www.naturessecretlarder.co.uk/wild-food-useful-plants/jack-by-the-hedge-alliaria-petiolata.htm
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You can eat it.
Sounds like a good weed to have... it's at the end of the garden anyway so it can stay. Can't wait to try in some salad
Garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata). Quite invasive in the right conditions (usually damp, shaded areas in gardens) and is rather edible. Has a peppery taste a bit like watercress as well as a nice garlic flavour.
Got loads growing under a hedge at the side of the allotment and it makes a great addition to salads. It would be the only salad ingredient left if the pidgeons and slugs had their way