What is a garlic scape? 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, th...
Do you harvest garlic scapes while they’re still straight or after they’ve curled? 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...
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...
You can grow your own garlic! Before you plant, know which garlic variety matches your climate and cooking. We’ll also share tips on how to grow bigger bulbs. Learn all about planting, growing, and harvesting garlic and garlic scapes. ...
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...
is synonymously used as hard neck garlic as it is very common. These have parchment skin which is a bit thinner than soft neck garlic. Its thin-skinned bulbs can be peeled easily, they have distinctive curling, and they have the nickname “serpent” garlic because of their garlic scapes. ...
Garlic–which is sometimes classified as an herb–is grown from cloves selected from medium to large bulbs, called heads, harvested the season before. You can plant cloves from garlic heads purchased at a grocery store or farm market as long as they have not been treated to prevent sprouting...
As the garlic begins to flourish in the spring, you will see garlic scapes begin to grow in abundance. While it may be tempting to let them grow, you shouldn’t. Left unchecked, the scapes will take the energy that the garlic bulb needs to grow big and healthy. ...
In early June, the fall-planted garlic will begin to produce garlic scapes. A garlic scape is the curly flower stalk of a hardneck garlic plant, and they’re not really a concern with softneck varieties. Many home gardeners hate the chore of removing the scapes, while others think of the...