There were many plants inherited with this new house, and this is yet another one of them. There is also the regular, garden variety garlic with the curl below the seed-head but this is different. It's about 3 ft. tall with an extremely thin, very stiff straight stalk. Bulbs are about the size of a nickle in circumference.
The seed-head is segmented into 3. It does not flower. Can't quite make out the scent of the crushed bulb ~ not quite onion, not quite garlic.
Maybe it's wild garlic. It comes up all over the place around here.
Thanks
chuckle, the seed head IS the flower, diff between onion and garlic is that a garlic has a flatter blade, leaf. yours looks like an ornamental my dau has, she calls it Wild onion, tho it is much more huge than what I know as wild onion, I'll go fetch my digi an grab a shot for you
ok, wild onion, ornamental, indicates milder aromas, flavor, than non-ornamental
I dont have any of the ornamental garlic, all is edible, ht of plant can be a changing thing depending on season, placement, soil, length of time established in place.
closer look, garlic, probably the type of common garlic from a grocery store we plant because they are sprouting on us, the cloves indicate it has been growing over 2 seasons. onions and garlic change flavors depending on the ph of the soil they are grown in.
Perhaps I should have been more specific about the flower / seedhead ~ there is no flower before producing the stem bulbets at the top, unlike chives and ornamental garlics.
There is nothing attractive about it, so I was hoping it might be something useful!
the mexicans braid the long stems when the cloves dry, if you dont like em, and they are edible, compost
