Tips for Harvesting and using Garlic Scapes

Garlic Scapes are a fantastic early season bonus for those that grow hardneck varieties of garlic. Depending on variety and you location they typically occur 3-5 weeks before you would typically harvest bulbs and signal that the garlic plant has finished the leaf growth phase of growth and will not focus its efforts on bulb development. It is critically important to remove the scape so that all of the plants energy is focused on bulb development. In this video we will demonstrate the correct way to remove the scape and provides tips for using this early season delicacy.

[NathanClarkeStudio]

This video was great, thank you! I'm growing garlic for the first time and am still learning so this was so informative. Also the frozen pesto idea sounds lovely!

[joelradding]

Very good but one of the most important parts of understanding scapes is which section of the scape to use in eating. An inexperienced grower may use the entire scape which is way too woody. Of course the woody parts of the scape can be used to flavor stocks and soups like bay leaves and discarded latter. But neglecting to tell a total neophyte making soup or dishes with bay leaves to discard or not consume the bay leaf.

[Mary-had-a-lil-farm]

Excellent video! NOW I understand what a scape is lol. Thank you. Can’t wait to try that pesto. Sounds delicious 😋.

[ml]

Nice video and great knowledge past on. Thanks :) tomorrow we are planting our first 14 lbs of music. Cheers ! :)

[Kalarandir]

Good to know. I have just harvested my scapes and I have always snapped rather than pulled.

[LM-]

Good info. Thank you. Have a great day.

[carolynhelmic]

It’s very important to get Garlic that is easy to peel and the "paper type skin" comes off very easy. We bought German Red Garlic and Giant Russia garlic because it was so easy to peel all of it. Our first year we just bought Garlic from a grocery store. Our fingers burned trying to peel the garlic we planted from the grocery store.Now we plant heritage garlic only.

[clintach]

Thanks for the time you take out of your day to video. Can you pick the scape to early?

[clintach]

Can't wait for next video. I'm in central Indiana my I have been fertilizing every 2 weeks my tips are starting to brown should I fertilize again or just let them go?

[karenbott]

Thank you for your informative videos! I’m in NJ and have a small home garden. I’m excited to have planted garlic on October 25th for the first time. It is now early June’s
and I have noticed yellowing on the tips, the first few inches of the tops, of my garlic plants. Yesterday I decided to give them soluble fertilizer of 24-8-16 with a little fish fertilizer. I thought they might need nitrogen. I did side dress them in April and planted them with compost and fertilizer . I see I now have scapes on the hard neck varieties and as per your wonderful information I am going to harvest them and learn to make wonderful things with them. My concern is have I done damage by fertilizing at this late date? Did I do the wrong thing? They don’t seem ready to harvest as I only have maybe one brown leaf at the bottom. The yellowing and browning is at the top. I hope I haven’t damaged my desire for having wonderful garlic bulbs. Please inform? Thank you!

[marktoldgardengnome]

I am growing Garlic for the first time this year, and so far, with luck, so good. Am growing German hard neck as it seemed to be the recommended variety for central to north central Maine. 8-9 leaves per plant, just harvested scapes today. Am now watching bottom 3 leaves for browning, going forward, for when to start test harvesting.
Any recommendations on storing bulbs for planting next year, and other varieties to try in my area to plant this fall? Thanks in advance for any advice. Will check your website out.
Mark

[willjoyce]

Ok, I feel good as I did my first scaping today with shears and while I took the top leaf I left a nub before the next leaf and then peeled the top leaf plus outer layer back. I feel that's a good compromise going in blind

[RRaucina]

Nice video. This may seem stupid, but I cannot find a answer anywhere. My wife just brought home the most beautiful purple stripe hard neck garlic I have ever seen. Nice bulbs and half dried flower head still attached. Can I immediately plant these fresh cloves for a fall crop or must they be dried for some time? Thanks for any thoughts.

[clintach]

Its been to long i need a new video. Haha hope all is well would like to see your fall planing and soil preperation.

[toddjohnston]

Thanks 👍... Did you have plenty of garlic in stock for bulk sales last August?

[Bullshirt]

i've been pulling the scape completely out for years and I have never seen a plant have any issue.... if I do ever get one that has issues I will let you know.

[jenniferhaddad]

Can I transplant the whole plant in July?

[jordanadkins]

You kinda sound almost exactly like Joe Rogan.

[robbisworldlywhims]

Darn wish I seen this before I cut all mine!! 😳 I cute right at the stem! 🥲😫

[steeltable]

Ok. I didn't know garlic had seeds till now