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Years ago, when I was an apprentice we were building a bungalow in a wood, the hut were we had our dinner was surrounded by wild garlic which stunk, we call it 'Dog Ramps' in these parts.
Anyway we had some sodium chlorate which we used as a weed killer at home so I took some to work to kill the Dog Ramps, unfortunately they thrived on it and grew twice as fast! In fact, in the end we though it must have been fertiliser I put on them, I wasn't popular...
Whats a strange name for Ramsoms? Wonder where it originated?
They are less imaginative in Norfolk. There is a large garlic woodland on what was the old coast road (now bypassed) near Sandringham and its simply known as 'Onion Corner'.
I waded in there to take some close up photos some 30 years ago...my shoes stunk of garlic.... such that the wife 'isolated' them in the garden shed for weeks.
Fortunately we were wealthy and I had another pair of shoes.
Last edited on Fri May 4th, 2012 05:04 by Eric
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