Garlic spring onions?

[Eyren]

I've been clearing off my raised beds after a long gardening hiatus, and found a couple of "volunteer" salad crops that have been successfully fighting off the weeds!

One looks suspiciously like land cress (and has self-seeded around the plot) and the other is some kind of spring onion. I have vague memories of buying "garlic spring onions", and these little fellows do have a faintly garlic flavour in addition to the usual oniony-ness - am I imagining it, or do such things exist? I tried Google, but it just threw up a lot of pages that talk about garlic and spring onions, not garlic spring onions.

[bretty666]

Big chives?

[fishpond]

I have some (lots) of garlic flavoured spring onions/chives scattered about my garden, quite handy when you are peckish.
Never seen them bulb like a spring onion though, more like giant chives (up to 12" high).

[Richard Eldritch]

Could they be small elephant garlic? Which is really a leak of course but a small one would look like a spring onion but smell like garlic.....

[snakeshack]

Garlic chives maybe?


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[Eyren]

Not elephant garlic - they look like skinny spring onions with very little bulb, but much more substantial than chives. If I get a chance, I'll take a photo...


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[solway cropper]

Garlic chives, as snakeshack says. I have them in my garden along with ordinary chives, Welsh onions and wild garlic (ramsons). These perennial veg are great as they can usually be relied on to give something fresh and tangy in March when there's not much else available. This year they've all been ingredients in my lunchtime sarnies since late Feb!

[veggiechicken]

Three cornered leek?
or garlic growing from bulbils?

[Tripmeup]

Garlic chives I reckons.. (so, it's probably not )

[realfood]

Garlic chives have flat leaves, whereas chives have circular leaves.

[fishpond]

Garlic chives have flat leaves, whereas chives have circular leaves.

Sorry, not in my garden.
Round leaves, smell and taste of Garlic with a hint of onion.