Should You Harvest Garlic Scapes? The Guide To Growing Garlic In Canada | Crop Series Episode 06

This gardening Canada video is all about whether or not to harvest garlic scapes. Growing garlic in Canada can be an exciting and rewarding experience. Charlie can be one of the very first plant and harvest from your vegetable garden this year. This is particularly true for a cool climate gardeners located in Canada or the northern USA.

Garlic growing in Canada it’s very simple to do. In this garlic growing video we will be looking at one to plant your garlic, how and when to fertilize your garlic plants, and even went to harvest. When it comes to harvesting garlic scapes you want to ensure that this takes place before the flower. Herbs and garlic scapes also needs to take place before the stem straightens. This will allow the garlic bulb to form a larger complete fog. Removal of garlic scapes is important for proper bulb formation.

Should You Harvest Garlic Scapes? The Guide To Growing Garlic In Canada | Crop Series Episode 07

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Ashley is an agronomist who has had a passion for plants since she was a small child. In the long summers as a child, she would garden alongside her grandmother and it was then that she realized her love for greenery. With years of great studying, Ashley had begun her post-secondary education at the University of Saskatchewan.
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[rhino]

Thanks I'm in northern mn. So yes it gets plenty cold zone 4

[LearnToGrow]

You're one of the BEST teachers, Ashley! Excellent video and thank you. Love garlic, just can't eat too many scapes all at once like I used to, same effects as onions. Lol :)

[NNTorious]

It is a bit late now, but it is also important to plant in the fall to allow the plant to get established. It should have some root formation before the spring time which will give it a great head start. Kind of like over wintering a pepper.

[isabelleblain]

Thanks for this very timely and useful info. I picked my scapes about two weeks ago and made very tasty pesto with it. I am now letting my bulbs grow.

[ts]

My father was a prolific garlic grower (home garden) back in the 1970s and '80s and it was my job to 'tend' to them, including cutting off the scapes when they appeared to help the bulbs get larger. Back then I just cut the scapes off and left them on the ground to decompose. It wasn't until a few years later I was at a farmers market and I saw a couple vendors selling them and they were charging a lot. Right around that time they seemed to have taken off in popularity as it was a new thing to cook with them. Looking back I could kick myself for not collecting them and trying to sell them and make some extra money but that might not have worked as nobody else was selling them but I could have been one of the pioneers in garlic scape marketing lol.

[michaelnorris]

"Aboot" 🤣 That Canadian accent just slips out 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦

[ThePoorStudent]

The only thing that I can grow consistently year after year is garlic. Music bulbs have large cloves but fewer of them (2 to 4) in each bulb. I think the rest of them are purple stripe, which are smaller cloves but there are more of them (around 7 per bulb). I'll try throwing some bone meal on them to see if that makes them bigger.

[ishiggs]

Hi Ashley, here in Tasmania we have cold climate garlic breeders that have advised hardneck garlic benefits greatly from the earliest possible removal of the scape, but softneck garlic not so much. I find it hit and miss how much of the scape I can pull out of the plant, once the inflorescence bit is out you can yank the whole thing out with a slow continual pull usually. Bit like pulling out an entire hair follicle down to the root instead of it breaking off partway. I've only ever grown hardneck garlic, this is my second year. Some of it this year has gone to witches broom thanks to a late cold snap.

[AMKB]

We're growing garlic for the first time. I got a collection from Vesey's that included Porcelain Music, Purple Stripe and Rocambole. The Porcelain Music grew quite huge, and are still very green. They started producing scapes first, and their scapes are fully harvested now. The Purple Stripe started producing scapes next, and are still producing them now, but they are also looking like they are ready for the bulbs to be harvested! With a few individual exceptions, the leaves are almost all drying, including those that still have scapes. The Rocambole started producing scapes the latest, and they are generally smaller and slighter than the other two. They are also starting to die back. These are all planted at the same time, and the share two garden beds, watered the same, etc.

We'd never had scapes before and were really looking forward to trying them. We've just been chopping them and including them in our cooking. The closest thing to a "recipe" I've done was to make a cream cheese spread with some of them. We're really enjoying them! For next year (as in, planting this fall), we want to plant a lot more garlic! I'd love to try making pesto or pickling them. :-)

[DavidMFChapman]

So what I want to know is why did garlic evolve to curl around in those curly scapes.

I harvested 45 garlic scapes and puréed it in a 50:50 mix of olive oil and water. It makes a great pesto. I froze 2 small jars. Next year I’m going to freeze it in ice cube trays.

[rhino]

I have a question about garlic. What I did was not get the garlic in in the fall. Soil spring planted it and am going to have balls to plant this fall should I put it in fridge for a couple months before I plant never tried it before.

[yahushaismyshepherd]

Could you do a video on spring AND fall planting or garlic.

Cannot find info for our zones.

[UrbanOasis]

How do you know when to harvest your garlic? I am in Winnipeg, zone 3, and have harvested the scapes already, but am unsure when to harvest the actual bulb! Thanks!

[josueparedes]

Apologizing for being too Canadian is the most Canadian thing ever 😅