Harvesting Garlic Scapes | When, Why and How | Growing Garlic At Home

Harvesting Scapes is super easy and if you are not doing it, you should be! When you grow hardneck garlic at home you might see these scapes developing when the weather warms up in late spring. Hardneck garlic develop these scapes to produce seeds. Harvesting these scapes will stop the development of seeds and instead direct all the energy of the plant to produce large garlic bulbs. You can enjoy scapes in any recipe that you use onions/scallions for or in any dish you would use garlic for. Watch this video and see how easy it is to harvest garlic scapes, and don't miss out on this extra bit of food, you probably weren't expecting.

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