Garlic scapes are the hard, central flowering stems of hardneck garlic, but they don’t actually flower in the traditional sense. The stems grow straight up for several inches, then curl once or twice around before growing upward and blooming. If left to mature, the seed pod at the end ...
Garlic scapes harvested young are still tender enough to eat raw (although too pungent for some palates!) They can be cooked in stir-fries, pickled, or made into pesto. Harvested a little older, you may need to break off the woody bases, similar to asparagus, and just use the tender t...
Weed between the plants to reduce the competition for water and nutrients. This is best done by hand, as hoeing could damage the developing bulbs and their shallow roots. Remove any flower stems, or 'scapes', that the plants produce – you can eat these in stir-fries. Growing garlic: pro...
many of you have told me that these are actually garlic leaves and not garlic scapes. Sorry for the confusion – as I mentioned above I have a brown thumb and was mistaken about this. I was just so excited to see something growing in my kitchen window that I had to share 😂 I hope...
Garlic scapes are an excellent stand-in for the garlic cloves in this recipe. You’ll find them at the farmer’s market during spring. You can also mix them with basil and parsley to make an excellent garlic scape pesto recipe that freezes well. Dandelion greens may be too bitter. If th...
The bulbs are generally ready to harvest the following summer. But you can also enjoy thegarlic leaves or “scapes,” which appear in early spring. They’re delicious stir-fried or in salads. In addition to its intense flavor and many culinary uses, the “stinking rose” also serves as an...
If you see your plants putting up a central stalk with a bud on the end, that means they’re beginning to bolt (flower), and you should harvest them right away. (And eat the flower stalk, or “scape,” too - they’re tasty, just like garlic scapes!) Green onions won’t taste ...
But to me the late-spring arrival of garlic scapes, the aboveground parts of hardneck garlic plants, means something else: garlic scape pesto. I picked up a recipe for it from Potomac Vegetable Farms–handwritten, then copied on green paper–at least two decades ago, and it’s had a spot...
Garlic can tolerate frost, but autumn-planted cloves should be protected from frost-heaving and freezing ground in cold-winter regions. Garlic can be grown in containers. Related articles: Five Ways to Cook and Serve Garlic Snap Green Beans with Garlic ...
At low latitudes—below 35°—summer days aren’t long enough to initiate bulb formation in medium- and- long-day varieties, so southern gardeners should choose short-day varieties. Day length is less important for shallots, garlic, leeks, and scallions....