Thank you so much for the informative video. I have been morel hunting my whole life and never knew about ramps until a few years ago. I harvested my 1st ones today 5/9/24. I didn’t wipe out the patch, but I took roots and all, not knowing. I will be harvesting them again next year and do so leaving the rhizomes. Live and learn!!!
Amazing tutorial. I did not know ramps produce seeds. thought reproduction was entirely via rhizome. Thank you for sharing this vital info. I am in NY and have a ramp forest that I am trying to cultivate. Used the “save the root, and replant” method, by harvesting top part of bulb and leaves, while leavening cut bulb and root in ground. A method that has effectively multiplied a good number of ramp patches that were already present on woodland property.
Just for those who might be confused, Allium tricoccum is a wild onion native to NA. It is often called ramp, spring onion, ramson, wild leek, wood leek, and wild garlic. But it is not the same as Campanula rapunculus, which is the "true" ramp, as it is from the Campanula/Rampanula genus-- whereas the ramp in the video is an Allium.
Hey, Joe! Did you happen to know the late Nathan “Frog” Hill from Western NC? He was my Great-Grandfather. He was a HUGE Ramp fan. He used to go to all the conventions. Admittedly, he usually came back with more moonshine than ramps. Ha!
Joe Hollis the absolute legend! Thank you for this wealth of knowledge and for teaching to leave the rhizome. I finally found something oniony in CT and have had a tough time identifying them. They had a white stem which was throwing me off. I can not find the species you talked about: allium bicnelilia. ( I have no idea how to spell it) I did however find the following info on wikipedia. [Allium tricoccum variety burdickii. The two varieties are distinguished by several features. A. tricoccum var. tricoccum is generally larger than A. tricoccum var. burdickii: the bulbs are larger, the leaves are usually 5-9 cm (2.0-3.5 in) wide rather than 2-4 cm (0.8-1.6 in) wide and the umbels typically have 30-50 flowers rather than 12-18. Additionally, the leaf stalks (petioles) and leaf sheaths are usually red or purplish in var. tricoccum and white in var. burdickii. The leaves of var. burdickii also have less distinct stalks than those of var. tricoccum.]
Allium tricoccum bicknellii? Or Allium tricoccum var.burdickii? I've been very interested in this species as it grows in my woods clearly distinct from the normal red guys, and I've found very little info on them. I can't even find a Allium bicknellii? He has to be mistaken or is recalling a very old forgotten name.
I live in WEst Greenwich RI and spend tons of my time in the woods MTN Biking- I was learning about Mushrooms and picking chicken of the woods and now have started hearing about Fiddle heads and now Ramps-thinking there may be an app that I could use to help identify and/or need to find someone who rides and knows...:)
i enjoyed this - i'm in Australia and was intrigued enough to try growing some ramps from seed - i'm not sure if i'm having any success but this year i have what looks like a single blade of grass coming up, its thin, pointy and strong - time will see :) I don't think anyone else has them growing here but i'm giving it a go
