Q: I am growing garlic for the first time. What are garlic scapes? How do you use them? — Sarah, Narrowsburg A: A "scape" is a botanical term for a stem that bears a flower. Garlic scapes are the ...

Garlic scapes are a popular sight at many local farmers markets and supermarkets in the late spring and early summer. In the same vein as garlic cloves, scapes can be sautéed in a medley of veggies, ...

In early summer, when Hollywood turns to escapism, gardeners and cooks turn to plain old scape-ism. Garlic scapes are those curlicued green stems that shoot up from garlic plants in mid-to-late June.

Edited version of a story first published June 26, 2007: A few weeks before harvest, growers of hardneck garlic find their crop sporting loopy green pig's tails faintly bulging with seed-like bulbils.

A: Garlic scapes, which sprout in the spring, are the green flower-bulb shoots of the garlic plant. Farmers typically remove them to allow energy to flow into the garlic bulb in the ground rather than ...

There’s one vegetable I’ve never seen anywhere except at my local farmers market – the garlic scape. Most people have never heard of garlic scapes and, when they see them, have no idea what they are.

As avid plant and food lovers, little brings us more joy and hope after a long, frigid winter than seeing spring's first shoots pop up out of the soil. Along with asparagus, hearty leafy greens, peas, ...

Garlic scapes, those hardy green stems that grow in the spring from the tops of hardneck garlic bulbs, make a unique and wonderful pesto. In fact, garlic scape pesto gives us the best of all culinary ...

A: Garlic scapes, which sprout in the spring, are the green flower-bulb shoots of the garlic plant. Farmers typically remove them to allow energy to flow into the garlic bulb in the ground rather than ...