Ramp Supper

[Lee]

32nd Annual !!!!!! That explains why I haven't heard of it. I was gone 10 years before it became an event.

Ramps. I'm still looking to find some. No luck so far, but I know where there's a lot of skunk cabbage.........

[Sprue]

WV Ramp Capitol

http://www.wchstv.com/traveling/2007/twv070419.shtml

[TCLouis]

Ramps required growth habitat.

Colony or individual plants scattered about?

Any sources to start a Ramp "bed"?

How about a picture of them in the wild?

Full of questions, that I am.

[madsenshooter]

MMMM, you sure made me think of home, SE Ohio (aka Upper Appalachia), haven't seen anything here in N. IN that looks anything like a ramp. Since they're one of the first edibles to come up in the spring, the Cherokee, I've read ate them as a spring tonic. The little town I am from is surrounded by acres of forest, either Wayne National Forest, or coal company land, lots and lots of ramps and few people dig them. Now you have me wanting to go home!

[BCB]

I have tried to transplant them in areas very near and similar to where the ones in the pictures are growing--very limited success and spread and propagation is extremely slow..

These pictures were taken on a piece of property I own in Western Pennsylvania. I gather a "mess" of them each year and make leek and potato soup. A delight every year...

In the pictures you also see Trilliums, Mayapple, Trout Lily, and Wild Geranium. So that might give an idea of the habitat they prefer...

BCB

[yotatrd4x4]

I didnt realize that most people who arent from the appalachian mountains as we are dont have a clue what a ramp is. The term did come from a latin word for garlic and all the people who settled in the appalachians where mostly poor and it was easy for them to live off the land so the latin word which I believe was ramson but was shortened to ramp after time. Here are a few good links to show yall outsiders what you are missing.
http://main.nc.us/yancey/Ramps/ramps_or_wild_leek.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium_tricoccum

[rugerman1]

Just talked to my uncle and made our yearly plans to meet at our secret ramp patch in the next month or so.Made some chili with ramps Saturday:
Great Nothern beans,
kidney beans
pinto beans,
homemade hot sausage links,
ground beef
a jar of home-canned tomatoes/onions/sweet peppers sauce
a dash of chili powdah
a handful of diced(frozen 2009) ramps
my secret awesome chili spice

Cooked it down for 4.5 hours
Made the mistake of inviting my cousin and his wife down to taste it,2 results:
Less chili for me
Marital discord for them

[oneokie]

Shoulda made a bigger pot of chili.

[largom]

Sure makes me homesick for the hills of West Virginia.

[Three-Fifty-Seven]

Use to get them back in VT on a South Eastern hill kinda dampish area . . . I'd put some in a blender with Extra Virgin Olive Oil, make a paste . . . makes a great spread on toast! Freezes well too!

I had a friend who would pickle them . . .

[Four Fingers of Death]

After being alone for a couple of years, I have re-married. My new wife is a retired Chinese Doctor. She and her family eat raw garlic cloves as a side dish to most main meals. If I see her chomping into them, I try and have a couple, otherwise I couldn't handle her breath. I'm quiet fond of them now. I reckon she'd take to your ramps like a duck to water. Another couple of months till we plant those sort of things here.

[Old Goat Keeper]

Ramps = natural birth control! lol

Tom who be single

[Sprue]

Anyone make it this year ?

[cattleskinner]

Mark,

Are ramps always red in the stem part between the leaves and bulb, or can they be white also? I found some in the woods that look like what you're showing but are a different color.

[BCB]

I don't believe I have ever seen any that were white from the ground to the leaves...

May be a regional thing. I don't know...

They often times grow in and around trout lilies and they may have a white stem--don' remember for sure. But the trout lily has a sort of motled leaf...

Good-luck...BCB

[223tenx]

They are available now at roadside stands in the Charleston area, maybe at the Farmer's Market in Charleston also.

[TCLouis]

wild geranium, trillium (purple, not white in middle TN, may apples, but no ramps.

Seems like I have seen leaves like the Ramp leaves tromping around the state, but don't remember where. I do remember it was like a colonial form and was unique enough to stand out.

[TCLouis]

wild geranium, trillium (purple, not white in middle TN), may apples, but no ramps.

Seems like I have seen leaves like the Ramp leaves tromping around the state, but don't remember where.
I do remember it was like a colonial form and was unique enough to stand out.

[BCB]

Unless you are in the woods at the correct time, it is easy to miss them as the leaves die back and the flower stalk appears. At that time it is near impossible to identify unless you know there were there before...

Good-luck...BCB