Wild and tamed

Foraging has become a hip thing in the UK, but - of course - cultivating crops, and domesticating nature has been so much more what we are used to, in buying food and eating it too, that eating wild things was for a long time not seen as appropriate. The Sub Gardener's parents gave us a couple of wild garlic plants, and they have been thriving:

Wild garlic, May 2014 (originally "imported" from Germany)

This wild garlic is spreading in an area of the garden where - despite this photo - it's fairly shady... In addition, we are also growing 'normal' garlic, in an orderly fashion - maybe photos of these another time.
In contrast to the wild garlic, we have grown some lettuce plants, rocket and some parsley in our greenhouse - which has not been invaded by slugs! - and this has also given us some salad over the last couple of months, when these plants would not have survived very well outside:

Parsley, oriental mustard lettuce, and mizuna, May 2014 (in green house)

The red/purpley plant is an oriental mustard lettuce - the leaves can get much bigger than that (and we have had some in the last couple of months). If you like eating lettuce, this one is - like mustard can be - a bit sharp. We have a couple of other more unusual herbs and salads, or if they are not unusual herbs we have not grown before: such as bay leaves! Another time, another post.

CHG (with some editional reporting, erm, sorting out of names of things by HG)