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RAMPS!
Buckskinner:
Ramps make you no more fragrant than if you eat onions or garlic, imo. I made some with leftover smoked venison shoulder and eggs this morning, delicious.
You do need to watch out for lily of the valley when picking ramps as the leaves look similar, but no issue if you're taking the whole plant as the lily does not have an onion bulb nor does it smell like onion/garlic! Some people just pick the leaves of ramp's so plant keeps producing, where I get them there are plenty so I take the whole deal...
boxerboxer:
I know this is an old thread but it's about to be ramp season again so I'm bumping it. My #1 favorite thing to make with ramps is compound butter. It's incredible on a steak or some fresh baked bread. Here's a simple recipe: https://leitesculinaria.com/110774/recipes-ramp-butter.html.
Ramps grow all over the eastern US so you might even have close by.
Eric Krewson:
I hunted a place that was covered up with ramps, I never thought of transplanting some to my place. The landowner was a peculiar guy, a business genius but pretty stupid on day-to-day stuff. I kept up his land for 12 years with my tractor and chainsaw, he let me invite a couple of guys to hunt the place. One of the guys turned out to be an unethical hunter and I revoked his hunting rights and told the land owner why. The guy took any shot he saw, distance, brush in the way it didn't matter. He wounded and lost 8 deer, three of the bucks he wounded and lost were 150" + bucks. The land owner got mad at all of us and revoked our hunting rights to his land. I no longer had access to the ramp patch.
This year I decided to order some ramp plants online and plant them on my property, I hope they do well.
Buckskinner:
How did the transplants go?
I moved about a dozen plants this spring. It's hard to tell because the greens go dead about now so will have to wait until next spring to see if they take. I'm going to keep an eye on my spot and harvest some seeds to plant as well. I've heard you can also cut half inch of bulb above roots and plant that as well.
Eric Krewson:
Some critter pulled up every one overnight and ate them.
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