‘Wild garlic is an ancient-woodland-indicator plant. If you spot it while you’re out exploring, it could be a sign you’re standing in a rare and special habitat’.
In early march, woods and orchards of the Monimail area are getting covered by wild garlic, sea of wild garlic, also called cow’s leek. It covers all the secrets kept in the woods, the remnants of the past of the old community. It complitely transforms the area. WIld garlic belong to genus Allium, same as many beuatiful spring flowers in our garden. Wild garlic is not only delicious but also good for you and your gut. You can ferment it, pickle it, make delicious pesto or just add raw to your salad. The bulbs have been used in medicine for centuries.
As it one of the first flowering plant in the spring, it is an important early bloom for the bees and other insects which pollinate them.
You can harvest bags of garlic when you visit Monimail. Today’s bonfire is a great opportunity too.
