So Ive spent the weekend planting trees...600 fir, 40 apple, 40 pear and 20 cherry trees, my back is bloody killing me. I got the tractor and the bushhog out to cut down some of the grass and got an overpowering smell of garlic when i started chopping. Got off the tractor to find I have about two acres of garlic growing. I never planted it, dug some up and its small (the clove is about 1 cm), so young? Questions are...where the hell did it come from and will it continue to grow wild? (I found strawberry plants as well)
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Is it wild garlic?
http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/ontweeds/wild_garlic.htm
And your little strawberry plants
http://www.naturebasics.ca/learnMore/wildStrawberries.html
Russell Coight....outback legend
Odds are very good its Wild Garlic, and yes it will continue to grow wild, as will the strawberries, only the fir tree's once they grow out, will create a kill circle around them, and depending on how close you planted them, it will change the light cover which will effect both of these plants but the fruits won't, unless you mulch cover their roots zone on them (example, it takes us typically about a thousand pds or so of strawbedding to winter mulch our fruits tree's and grape vines each fall) but I think I'm in a harder zone then you?
As for the strawberries, assuming they are wild ones, they will have very tiny fruit, but the flavour is intense, we pick a cup's worth and add them to our garden grown ones for our best jam, if you intend to have a strawberry bed in the garden, you will need to cull the runners each year, some being used in the three year rotating bed system but the exta's can be planted out in and around the fruit tree's for a mix with larger fruits if you want them etc.
The wild galic for me locally, never gets as big as what I grow in the garden but gives you a neverending supply of green scarps for use in the kitchen, dried and salad's dressing etc. Luck you to have 2 acres of great natural grown cover!
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