Wild Garlic

Wild garlic season has us singing and dancing in our home – we just can’t get enough of it! As the growing season comes later in the Highlands, particularly to the high ground where we live, we find ourselves enjoying wild garlic from May until July. We call wild garlic ramsons but, as the plant is a wild relative of onions and garlic, it gets called a variety of names, such as bear’s garlic, bear’s leeks and wood garlic – it just depends where you live. It likes growing in wooded areas. We have clusters of wild garlic under our trees and gather it by the basketful. The leaves get flung into every salad and dressing and we make bucketloads of pesto and rolled logs of flavoured butter to put in the freezer so that we can surprise ourselves in the winter. Something as simple as a hot baked potato with melted wild garlic butter can be dreamy on a dreich November day.