Did You Plant Garlic? You Need to Cut Off the Scapes!

Did you grow garlic this year?! Garlic is my favorite thing to plant and I love to grow hard-neck garlic. It does well in colder climates since it is winter hardy. Starting in September, I plant the cloves. They grow throughout the fall and then are dormant all winter. In the spring, they already have a headstart and grow fast and large!

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Depending on your growing zone, the timing can be different, but right now is the time I cut off all of the garlic scapes. If you aren’t familiar, hard-neck garlic produces scapes which are simply flowers that want to bloom. If you let them bloom, they take all the energy away from the head of garlic. Not good! Instead, cut them off when they want to curl. The head of garlic will finish growing and put on additional size.

Bonus: you get to cook with garlic scapes! They're such a treat to use in pesto, or you can roast or sauté them.

In a couple of weeks, I’ll show you my garlic harvest too!

#garlic #gardening #howtogarden

[greenthumbelina]

Kaleb, last year for the first time, I chopped up the garlic scapes, sauteed them, along with some diced jalapeno (both red and green -for color) and onion, in butter, then I added in eggs and scrambled all together. YUM, that made the best-ever scrambled eggs!

[debiesubaugher]

Growing up my mom and I always made kimchi out of the garlic scapes, my favorite.

[TheGoldleafCreative]

I’m so envious!!! Your garden is what?…Amazing!! I’m in the middle of a kitchen studio build and garden bed layout. No planting till this fall for me, so I live vicariously through your well thought out beds. As always, love to you and Me. Kip. Ps we all know Kip is the master mind behind your channel. (Picturing Kip in the director’s chair calling the shots). Be strong, be his shine, & love like crazy, -John

[susanlettis]

Show us the pesto recipe!!! Thank you - you rock. Hi to Kip!

[jennifermaxwell]

Last yr was the first yr for us to grow garlic. Was just thinking the other day on where I want to plant this time and I’m going to plant so much more this yr. such an easy crop to grow. And those scapes are so good!

[liztrotter]

Garlic scape pesto pasta salad tonight! I planted 10 different varieties of garlic in containers. The scapes came up in two waves. One looked really dead so I figured I would dig it up today. They were small but usable with a decent skin. I don't know anything about growing garlic, just experimenting.

[janeeberly]

I was just wondering when I need to harvest my garlic. I trimmed off the scapes a couple of weeks ago, but didn't think about eating them. You are a great wealth if knowledge, thanks for sharing.

[BlackOnyxCat]

Thank you!! This was very timely for me as I planted hard neck garlic for the first time last year and now there are scapes coming out of all of them. Could you show your pesto making using these scapes? I also thought it was interesting that the tips of your garlic plant leaves were a bit yellow because mine started doing this, too. Is this normal right about now in the growing season? I couldn’t figure out if they were over watered or too dry. We’re experiencing a bit of a drought right now, so being too dry is certainly possible. Thanks again for sharing 🙏 very helpful ❣️

[robinrobinson]

I planted garlic for the first time, Thanks to you. Never miss a video!

[alyssapeters]

Thank you, Kaleb! I'm learning so much from you! I can't wait to have my own garden. I mainly grow flowers for now.

[danam.]

Scapes are great ! But keep Bean-No in the house if you love using these as I do.

[jeanyounkim]

There are lots of recipe for fresh garlic leaves as well as garlic scrapes here in Korea. Thanks for sharing your knowledge for agriculture!

[Meowonamission]

Well, gotta cut my scapes tonight...I need a basket

[christac]

Love watching you!!!!
You are so knowledgeable.... You make everything look so easy 😊

[tammyj.]

I am so excited... I just happened to find you when searching for information regarding garlic scapes. I browsed through your posted videos and see several I can't wait to view. I was wondering though... where did you get that basket you are using in this video to put your scapes in... I LOVE IT.... Thanks for a great video... I also just watched your other video on that citrus/herb chicken you made... oh my that looked delicious. I have added it to my list. Thanks again!

[lizakates]

I just found your channel, Love your videos! I grew garlic for the first time this year to get the scapes and I only got one scape. I got lovely garlic bulbs which we have ben enjoying. Any tips to encourage the scapes? Do you add compost in the winter and early spring? I'm in zone 6b and I have them growing in containers and they get afternoon sun. much thanks!!

[kellyfrost-cook]

I have a ton of them! Pickling and pesto!

[andrewvillavicencio]

Good info thank you. I got some Hardneck Garlic from an organic farm in PA and was curious as to what htese were. Thanks!

[hayleykidder]

Love the videos. Thank you for the great tips and recipes. Keep them coming.

[huggledemon]

I found garlic scapes once in my local supermarket chain……… I LOVE them stir fried………sadly;they never sold them again!🥺