When and How to Harvest Garlic Scapes
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- If you grow hardneck garlic - then at some point in the growing season, you'll have garlic scapes rising up out of the stem of the plant. Removing them help to make the bulbs bigger, and you can also use them in your cooking, or to make pesto. In this video I show when and how to harvest them - have a watch!
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I've been harvesting them over the last week for the kitchen. I planted it last year from Info you posted. THANK YOU. Hope the plague staying away from your family.
I hope so too!
Growing garlic for the first time and I have been looking for this information for what seems like ages. Thank you for the clear and concise information.
Glad it was helpful!
Oops, I thought the scales were the green long leaves off the sides, not the middle. Glad I didn't harvest too many of those!
*scapes
After we harvest, coat in oil & salt & BBQ them! Similar texture to asparagus! We cannot get enough of them. Delicious!
I’ve been seeing a bunch of people asking where to find scapes. I’ve been telling them the season is about a month away!
I love garlic so I've no idea why I've never grown it but I'm going to plant some this fall....
Garlic has never been part of my eating but still enjoyed the lesson.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for sharing. I fermented the scapes I have just like sauerkraut. A little cabbage at the top and bottom of the jar to help the fermentation along and fill the rest with scapes. Yummy. 🇨🇦😎
Sounds great!
My first year growing garlic here in Zone 3 Saskatchewan. Looking forward to harvesting some scapes!
Enjoy!
I'm still eating last year's garlic crop, so this year's scapes are in the dehydrator to make garlic powder. I'm in Niagara, ON, and a couple of weeks ahead of you. I'll be digging my bulbs in a couple of weeks.
Thanks for sharing
I'm SO excited, I have scapes now! About to go harvest and make some pesto! Thanks Maritime I'm enjoying your to the point, no nonsense videos!
Wonderful!
Thanks, Greg. I'm in zone 6 Ohio. I'm watching my garlic, and waiting for those scapes to pop up. So grateful for this tutorial!
Wonderful!
Awesome! Growing ~ 120 hardneck: Red Rezan, Susan Delafield, Majestic, Great Northern. Cut half the scapes last weekend, and the rest yesterday. Gave some to my neighbour and his daughter. You grow 250?! Impressive! Even after saving ~50 for seed, that's a lot of garlic! You're right, who wants to run out of homegrown garlic and eat that dried out stuff shipped in from wherever?
Exactly!
I am so pleased with the garlic I planted; I used the leaves to flavour stews and sauces, and I sauteed the scapes in butter; they were great with scallops and a green salad. This has been one of the easiest and most useful things I've ever grown. I wouldn't have grown any if not for your enthusiasm, so thanks! I'm using turnips greens that I have to thin as a side; it's wonderful when a vegetable gives you more than one harvest.
Great to hear - I also use the turnip greens - one more great thing that gardens give that you can't buy in a store :)
Thank you for another great video! In the past I tried harvesting scapes at the wrong time, as they were too woody. Thanks to your video, and my scapes being just ready to harvest, we had a lovely garlic scape pesto meal and have scapes frozen to enjoy later.
Wonderful!
Turned into Beaker at 9:14.
Thank you! Great idea!! I’m going to pick mine right now!
Glad it was helpful!
Yum! They are delicious in salads.
Yes they are!
Coincidentally, I harvested my scapes this morning. I cut them into 3-inch lengths and tossed them into the freezer. I'll cut them up to throw in soups this fall. I have only 3 plants. I had bought one garlic bulb last November and planted the 3 cloves from it. The garlic had been grown organically locally. I plan to store the harvested garlic and replant the cloves this November. Eventually, I'll have enough to plant and eat and will be self-sufficient with garlic.
Thanks very much.
You're welcome!
Looking good Greg! The scapes are also awesome suateed and then added to some fresh picked and boiled Red Norland potatoes! We have been harvesting scapes for a couple weeks now and I am just about to go out to the garden and harvest the last of them along witn some Red Norland potatotes!
Have a great evening!
Mike
Agreed - with the potatoes they are great - another couple weeks before my taters are ready! Can't wait :)
Thanks Greg...planted my garlic late(May/2020) so no scapes yet. Hope to get some bulbs by Nov. Will definitely get them in this fall again...got to have garlic!!! Will definitely try the garlic pesto with some fresh herbs too. Great video.
Try planting them in October - will probably get better results
Pickled scapes are delicious!
Yes they are!
I don't garlic but hack... I will watch a video if its informative and about gardening :D
Thanks
I have a wild garlic and i usually let them go to seed so i can use them or plant them
I don't care about big bulbs but i accidentally left whole ones in without digging them up and replanting them
Ive moved them around before but they grow weakly ....i think im going to let mine grow and dig them up this time ;)
I'm on the Bay of Fundy, near Chignecto Bay and our garlic is just coming in as well. Picking my first ones today.
Hope you enjoy
Did I heard you will do a bulbil video for long term production? If so, I will look at it for sure! I just cut garlic scape yesterday and today, chopped them and put them in the freezer. I was feeling bad that my garlic rarely do 2 rounds and you telling us that they are better at 1 round, so yeah!
I'm not sure what you mean by "bulbil video for long term production?" but I recorded a video this morning on how to make the pesto if that's what you're asking.
@@maritimegardening4887 I don't understand well what you are saying but between 1:10 and 1:15
We harvested scapes 3 weeks ago and will harvest the garlics today and transplant the bush beans I have growing in cells. I grew the garlic with around 4 to 6 inches of spacing and they did great, really thick staulks. I'm planning on going to 3 inches of spacing this fall and increase my plants. Onions have the bulbs growing on top as well. Do you pick them like scapes?
Great info Greg. I snapped my scapes off last week (yum!) at the base and noticed they keep growing. Some are now 6” again! I’m new to garlic (and gardening). Do scapes regrow? Should I re-snap? Or just chill until the garlic is ready? (music & red russian - in case that matters). Thanks!
They will not regrow, but sometimes they do send up a little more length. The earlier to snap them off - the more they send up afterward.
Do we keep watering garlic at this stage or back off ? The rain was watering them up TIL now, into hot mid 20 C temps.
I don;t know where you live - it depends. I don''t water mine at all.
Rotation/mob livestock the scapes are nice. I gen walk the roads and gather seed. in the pasture, no scapes survive, as most herbivores devour it gladly. (Caveat: milk herd hate, gives the milk a very poor taste. people hate calves love :) ). The gathered seed I walk the pastures sowing the seed in hopes of future plants.
Why wait to remove them. Maybe the sooner the better for the bulbs
You wait so that they can harvested when they are most useful as a food item - and when done right it still improves the bulbs
What kind of herbs do you add?
I just made a batch using garlic scapes & lambs quarter. Yummy!
Hey sir, I have garlic that is a year old is it ok to eat, will I get sic. Can I freeze it for later
is it in the ground or has it been on your counter all that time?
@@maritimegardening4887 it was in a open milk crate
Excuse me, bearded man, but what are you doing in Greg's garden? ; ) I lost some of my garlic this year. I mean "LOST" as in, "the tops died back and now where the $#^* is it?"
Wow - you are so far ahead of me!
Wow, you grow a lot of garlic. My garlic didn't do to well over the winter. Almost every clove that I planted ended up getting a hollowed out center where the new shoot would grow out of. Any idea about that? I've researched and have found no answers. Most of my cloves planted were very large.
Hi! Please forgive me if this is a stupid question, but could it have been 'elephant garlic' you planted? It's not really garlic, it's a leek. I've grown hardneck garlic for years and I've never heard of this. I'm zone 4/NB.
It's "music" garlic - a hardneck variety. I'm mystified that you've been growing hardneck for years and never heard of scapes.
Sorry - I have no idea what the problem is there - its very possible that you have a pest of somekind that's doing the damage - plant them somewhere else next year.
I know scapes, they grow a psuedo -flower that develops umbrels, which can be used to grow garlic. I have not heard/seen a hardneck condition where the centre is 'hollowed out' as Simply Garden & Home described in their question. A co-worker planted 'elephant', thinking it was a true garlic, a few years ago and her harvest was not what she expected. I was asking Simply Garden & Home if they planted elephant "very large cloves" thinking it was a true garlic.
@@maritimegardening4887 I even asked a garlic expert who plants 60,000 cloves every year and he had no idea. I do rotate them every year. I will do that for sure. Thank you for getting back to me.
Thank you, I enjoyed learning about garlic scapes. Was wondering if you're ok, you sound so out of breath.
It's just the position of the microphone - it picks up my breathing too much.