If its so near you Hank leave it where it is and gather what you want from there. It can be very very invasive. Try a leaf in a good thick ham sandwich - very nice. Eat it outside in the sunshine for a good picnic feel. I knew some cheese makers years ago who added the leaves to one of their cheeses .Never heard of anyone using the cloves though.

I would only recommend eating the leaves and stems, you can make pesto with but the actual cloves need to be left in the ground.

And preferably not in your ground - once they're in, they take over...

Thanks for the replies.
But I have a just made a very small plot quite separate from everything else - about 5 ft by 18 inches which I thought might be suitable. No ?

No if the garlic is growing in the wild that is where it needs to stay... your digging it up would be not different to digging up wild primroses or bluebells...

Grow chives instead - the leaves are mild oniony tasting and much less invasive, you can eat the flowers, and the flowers are very attractive ornamentally anyway. Wild garlic also spreads by seed which may be blown on the wind, so it likely won't stay where you put it.

I tried using wild garlic leaves when cooking. No taste at all but I haven't tried the bulbs. As everyone says though, it's rampant once it gets going and your garden will stink to high heaven!

I've not tried coking with it but it is nice raw.

If I've time tomorrow I'll be down the woods searching for it,

You can also set the flowers. I wouldn't recommend you putting any in your garden, I am pulling it out all the time as its so invasive.

Be absolutely sure of your identification. Some years ago a couple of people died after eating the bulbs of Colchicum autumnale, autumn crocus, thinking they were wild garlic.

Thanks everyone, very helpful.

God knows how anyone could think Colchicum autumnal was wild garlic! Hank it should be in flower now and will smell quite strongly or garlic!

Sadly My sense of smell isn't the best but I mean to find some.

Well Colchicum autumnal should all be below the ground right now... if you have any doubts sow some chives :)