Wild Garlic

Pests & beneficial insects

🐛 Prone to: Thrips

Thrips

Thysanoptera

Silvery streaking with black specks — the specks are how you tell them from mites.

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Attract Minute pirate bugs

Minute pirate bugs

Anthocoridae

Two to three millimetres, and both stages hunt — thrips and spider mites, thirty a day.

, Hoverflies

Hoverflies

Syrphidae

The adults only drink nectar. It is the larvae that eat the aphids.

, Lacewings

Lacewings

Chrysopidae

Golden-eyed adults that mostly drink; larvae that hunt like small alligators.

to keep them in check — plant CosmosGreat, GoldenrodGreat and African MarigoldGood nearby.

🌼 Beneficial companion — draws Hoverflies

Hoverflies

Syrphidae

The adults only drink nectar. It is the larvae that eat the aphids.

that help control Aphids

Aphids

Aphididae

Curled leaves, sticky honeydew and ants on patrol — usually with something already eating them.

, Thrips

Thrips

Thysanoptera

Silvery streaking with black specks — the specks are how you tell them from mites.

on neighbouring plants.

Growing from seed

Direct-sow Wild Garlic outdoors about 6 weeks after your last frost, keeping seeds in cooler soil (around 10–18 °C). Seeds usually come up in around 60 days. Grow in shade, spaced about 15 cm apart. Expect to harvest in roughly 365 days.

Keep track of the seeds you own.

Companion Planting

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  Blue Sage
  

  Blue SageExcellent pair

  • ❧Blue Sage attracts Hoverflies, which prey on the Thrips and Aphids that attack Wild Garlic
  • ❧Blue Sage roots deep while Wild Garlic feeds near the surface — no competition
  • ❧Wild Garlic acts as living mulch, keeping soil moist and weeds down around Blue Sage
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  Cleveland Sage
  

  Cleveland SageExcellent pair

  • ❧Cleveland Sage attracts Hoverflies, which prey on the Thrips and Aphids that attack Wild Garlic
  • ❧Cleveland Sage roots deep while Wild Garlic feeds near the surface — no competition
  • ❧Wild Garlic acts as living mulch, keeping soil moist and weeds down around Cleveland Sage
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  Lovage
  

  LovageExcellent pair

  • ❧Lovage attracts Hoverflies and Lacewings, which prey on the Thrips and Aphids that attack Wild Garlic
  • ❧Lovage roots deep while Wild Garlic feeds near the surface — no competition
  • ❧Wild Garlic acts as living mulch, keeping soil moist and weeds down around Lovage

How to grow Wild Garlic

1. Sow6 weeks from frost
2. Germinates60 days
3. Space15 cm apart
4. GrowShade
5. Harvest~365 days

Water: Medium · Height: 30 cm · Soil: Moist, humus-rich, woodland-like