As spring heats up into summer, garlic starts to mature and send up bright-green shoots. It’s garlic scape season. Garlic scapes are a seasonal treat that can add garlicky flavor to everything from ...

If you’ve ever seen long green, slightly curly tubular plants in a bundle at the farmers’ market that smell slightly like garlic, you’ve likely seen a garlic scape. They can sometimes even look like ...

CLEARWATER — It's one of the hottest days of the year thus far, and Chris and Joanne Kudrna are out picking garlic scapes at Plum Creek Farm. The taut green stalks produced by the hardneck variety of ...

Garlic is one of the absolute easiest crops to grow. Plant the bulbs in the fall in your garden and let nature do its work! By the following summer, you’ll have a bumper crop of garlic. But knowing ...

Long, green and mildly aromatic, garlic scapes -- sometimes referred to as green garlic or garlic curls -- are the flower stalks that grow from the hardneck garlic plant. With a crunchy, slightly ...

Garlic is a bulb with joined segments (called cloves) that make up a head. Each clove is actually a miniature bulb that stores energy to sprout and create a new plant. Garlic is almost always planted ...

If you planted garlic in your garden last fall and have pretty much ignored the plants for the last several months, it’s time to start paying attention to them again. Garlic is a fairly trouble-free ...

If you planted garlic bulbs last fall, chances are they are beginning to produce flower stalks, also called scapes. By removing these stems when they begin to curl, a process known as topping, you’ll ...