Below are nine of my favorite ways to use garlic scapes in my everyday cooking! 1. Garlic scapes as an aromatic If you’re the type of person who can’t start any recipe without fresh chopped garlic or onion, you’re in luck. This is an easy way to add garlic scapes to your meals...
but the resulting bulbs won’t be as large. However, you can still enjoy the garlic scapes during the summer. (Scapes are the plant’s tender green shoots with a mild garlic flavor. Enjoy on eggs, in salads, as a pizza topping, or in stir-fries!) If you plant in the spring, wait...
Before planting garlic, dig in some homemade compost or well-rotted manure and rake over well. Push cloves in, or use a dibber to make holes 15cm apart, leaving 30cm between rows. The cloves should have about 3cm of soil above them, but can be planted deeper if in free-draining soils...
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...
a bowl of soup or sprinkle them on top of a baked (sweet) potato. Use these scapes to garnish any meal – and definitely use them when your friends come over – they’ll be super impressed and think you’re trendy/cool. I mean, growing garlic scapes in a shot glass… is way cooler...
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 ...
of chilly weather for optimal bulb or head production. Allow eight months to maturity after autumn planting for the largest bulbs; spring-planted garlic (set out 6 weeks before the last frost) will reach maturity in about 100 days, but bulbs will not be as large as autumn-planted garlic. ...
Garlic is one of the easiest crops to grow in a home garden—making it fun for beginners to get started—but the sheer number of cultivars available (dozens upon dozens) keeps it exciting for even the most seasoned gardener. And garlic is not just good in your garden, it’s also great...
Hand-pick the larvae, or spray with a garlic-soap spray. Aphids can be a problem when growing lettuce, especially in crowded plantings. They rarely hurt the plants, but aphid infestations make it harder to clean the lettuce when you harvest it. A soap-and-oil spray will knock the ...