Is it safe to eat the wild onion/garlic chives in my yard?

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I'm not sure which they are. They are really skinny round chives with small white bulbs under ground. They look like oniony chives but smell garlicky when pulled out. My husband always gets nervous when I ask about eating wild things, such as the blackberries and tiny strawberries that grow in the backyard...

Thanks!

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The flower buds are especially good

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Do they move???

Here's the reason I'm asking: many years ago, my mother visited China. Towards the end of her trip, in a restaurant, she made a comment to the waiter about the huge variety and diversity of Chinese cuisine.

To which he replied: "Ma'am, if it moves, we eat it."

So... do they move?

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in the Midwest as a child we'd chew on them for the 'bite' taste while playing in the yard. if you don't use pesticides or excessive fertilizers I'd use 'em just like you would scallion or chive. why not, right?

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These are what I have all over my pasture. The two horses don't care for them. So, can anyone tell me what these are? And are they edible?

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Might be vineale. I've never seen them make clusters that wide, but it could simply be a matter of the fact that your horse pastures are probably better "fertilized" than the waste land I am used to seeing them in.

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I think what I have in my CT yard is more likely wild chives, allium schoenoprasum: 

http://eol.org/pages/1084938/overview

They're edible too.

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I live in Jersey, as well, & yes, you can certainly eat them & cook with them with two provisions: 1) You don't use pesticides or chemical fertilizers on them & 2) only use the ones that are in an area where yours' or your neighbor's dogs can't pee on them!I cut & use them all the time & I chop & freeze lots of them so i'll have some when their growing season's over.

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