Roland, Where did you get your starts? Colleen NE Calif. -----Original Message----- From: pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Bulborum Botanicum Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 10:18 AM To: Pacific Bulb Society Subject: Re: [pbs] Species Alliums being edible? Allium cernuum was eaten by the Indians in America and Canada I grow loads of A. ursinum for eating they taste much better as A, schoenoprasum the sad thing is that it's just a short period that you can eat them How do you make your pesto Mark maybe better to PM me Roland 2013/4/5 Mark BROWN <brown.mark@wanadoo.fr>: > Dear All, > I have introduced Allium ursinium in the parts of the garden dedicated to wild food. > I enjoy its' mild flavour of late in salads and a few leaves thrown in with pasta as it is cooking. > You can make a great sort of pesto from its leaves which keeps well. > Allium vineale is wild here and makes a good addition as a wild vegetable. > I have grown A. oleraceum but this becomes too much except in the wildest places. > A. ampeloprasum is quite a delicious alternative to garlic! > A. senecens is grown for its' edibility but I have yet to try it! > A. sativum ophioscorodon is just a curiosity. A. cepa aggregatum is a bit fiddly to use. > > Kind regards, > Mark > > > > > >> Message du 05/04/13 18:44 >> De : "Nhu Nguyen" >> A : "Pacific Bulb Society" >> Copie à : >> Objet : Re: [pbs] Species Alliums being edible? >> >> I would say that it's not a good thing to eat wild onions, >> particularly because like many other geophytes, it takes so long for them regenerate. >> The ones in California takes about 4 years to mature from seeds and I >> would not expect any less from the ones in Israel. Perhaps they were >> eaten more thousands of years ago was because they were much more >> common. With that said, if you want to grow some up in your garden to >> eat, I'd be really interested in your assessment of the flavors. >> >> Nhu >> >> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Shmuel Silinsky wrote: >> >> > There are many species of Allium native here in Israel. Some are >> > endemic. I am wondering if all are edible, both as leaf or as bulb. >> > Obviously flavor will vary, even bitterness, but are any poisonous? >> > >> > I am especially interested in knowing about Allium aschersonium. It >> > has a large bulb - and I would like to try it as an edible. >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >> > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ -- R de Boer La Maugardiere 1 F 27260 EPAIGNES FRANCE Phone./Fax 0033-232-576-204 Email: bulborum@gmail.com Facebook: https://facebook.com/pages/Bulborum/…