Comments on: Gourmet Garlic Scapes http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/gourmet-garlic-scapes/ Featuring Vegetable Gardening Tips, Organic Growing Techniques, and Unique Plants for the Backyard Gardener Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:33:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Taras http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/gourmet-garlic-scapes/#comment-195870 Taras Mon, 29 Aug 2011 03:42:11 +0000 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/gourmet-garlic-scapes/#comment-195870 Hi Ken, one of the best sources here in the States for info and buying garlic seed is www.filareefarm.com in Washington state. They grow and sell hundreds of varieties of garlic. Their catalog is jam packed with so much info that you can use it as a reference. And no I don't work for them :). I just buy a lot of their garlic. In the days before gourmet grocery shops and the Internet, most gardeners didn't know how many different types and varieties of garlic there were. Most of them bought their seed garlic from the local grocery store. And that was a Italian type of soft neck garlic from California. In all my reading on scape's the general consensus is to remove the scape. A plants ultimate purpose is to produce seeds to reproduce itself. Which takes the energy stored in the bulb. As for Julia and her head of garlic with only 2 hugh cloves, it's called selective breeding. In the days before genetic modification, plant breeders would select the seeds from plants with the traits they wished to perpetuate and plant them. Selective breeding. After six years of planting your seed cloves from your 2 clove heads of garlic that's what your are going to get. Use them for food and start using cloves for seed from garlic heads with 6-12 cloves and start your cycle over again. Hope this helps, Taras BTW, my favorite way to eat garlic scape's is to make Dilled Garlic Scape pickles. Just use your favorite recipe for Dilled Green Beans. Yummy. Enjoy Hi Ken, one of the best sources here in the States for info and buying garlic seed is http://www.filareefarm.com in Washington state. They grow and sell hundreds of varieties of garlic. Their catalog is jam packed with so much info that you can use it as a reference. And no I don’t work for them :) . I just buy a lot of their garlic.
In the days before gourmet grocery shops and the Internet, most gardeners didn’t know how many different types and varieties of garlic there were. Most of them bought their seed garlic from the local grocery store. And that was a Italian type of soft neck garlic from California. In all my reading on scape’s the general consensus is to remove the scape.
A plants ultimate purpose is to produce seeds to reproduce itself. Which takes the energy stored in the bulb. As for Julia and her head of garlic with only 2 hugh cloves, it’s called selective breeding. In the days before genetic modification, plant breeders would select the seeds from plants with the traits they wished to perpetuate and plant them. Selective breeding. After six years of planting your seed cloves from your 2 clove heads of garlic that’s what your are going to get. Use them for food and start using cloves for seed from garlic heads with 6-12 cloves and start your cycle over again. Hope this helps, Taras

BTW, my favorite way to eat garlic scape’s is to make Dilled Garlic Scape pickles. Just use your favorite recipe for Dilled Green Beans. Yummy. Enjoy

]]> By: Kenny Point http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/gourmet-garlic-scapes/#comment-178348 Kenny Point Sun, 03 Jul 2011 13:30:30 +0000 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/gourmet-garlic-scapes/#comment-178348 Hi Shirley, never tried freezing the garlic scapes but don't see any reason why you couldn't. Maybe blanch and freeze them similar to green beans? Hi Shirley, never tried freezing the garlic scapes but don’t see any reason why you couldn’t. Maybe blanch and freeze them similar to green beans?

]]> By: Shirley Obst http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/gourmet-garlic-scapes/#comment-177112 Shirley Obst Sat, 02 Jul 2011 22:54:47 +0000 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/gourmet-garlic-scapes/#comment-177112 Today I just cut odd the scapes from my garlic, and have a lot of scapes. do they freeze well, and is there a specific method! Really enjoyed reading, all the questions and answers, Thank you. Shirley. Surrey B. C. Canada Today I just cut odd the scapes from my garlic, and have a lot of scapes. do they freeze well, and is there a specific method!
Really enjoyed reading, all the questions and answers, Thank you.
Shirley. Surrey B. C. Canada

]]> By: Kenny Point http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/gourmet-garlic-scapes/#comment-175172 Kenny Point Sat, 25 Jun 2011 11:42:09 +0000 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/gourmet-garlic-scapes/#comment-175172 Hi Deanna, the scapes get tougher the further down you go but all of it is edible... I just snap them off as low as they will easily break off and then use everything including the little bud at the tip. Hi Deanna, the scapes get tougher the further down you go but all of it is edible… I just snap them off as low as they will easily break off and then use everything including the little bud at the tip.

]]> By: Deanna Hayes http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/gourmet-garlic-scapes/#comment-173953 Deanna Hayes Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:45:59 +0000 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/gourmet-garlic-scapes/#comment-173953 How much of the garlic scape is edible? Can't seem to find any info on that. How much of the garlic scape is edible? Can’t seem to find any info on that.

]]> By: Kenny Point http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/gourmet-garlic-scapes/#comment-71412 Kenny Point Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:15:09 +0000 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/gourmet-garlic-scapes/#comment-71412 Hi Julia, I grow the Music garlic variety every year and have never really noticed bulbs forming with only two cloves. It could be that Music just doesn't perform well in your growing region... but it sounds like it's fine for your personal use. Hi Julia, I grow the Music garlic variety every year and have never really noticed bulbs forming with only two cloves. It could be that Music just doesn’t perform well in your growing region… but it sounds like it’s fine for your personal use.

]]> By: Julia Southgate http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/gourmet-garlic-scapes/#comment-70483 Julia Southgate Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:06:29 +0000 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/gourmet-garlic-scapes/#comment-70483 I've been growing garlic in the Ottawa Ontario area now for about 6 years but I'm still learning. I have a question that I'm hoping someone can answer... but first a little background. We are a very small producer. We grow about 1800 plants a year. (that's the number that works best for us for the level of manual effort and the size of our raised bed plots.) We keep about a 1/3 for next year's seed, eat about 1/3 (or give away to family) and sell about 1/3. The money that we get from the sellings is put back into the garden in soil amendments and straw etc. sort of a win-win on a great hobby. We grow two varieties, Music and Russian Reds (at least that's what they were called when I bought them at the farmers market years ago) here's my question: With the Music, the cloves are huge but often there are only two jumbo cloves per head! I know that the bigger the clove you plant the better, but are the twosies pre-disposed to produce another batch of twosies? Part of me says plant them and I'll get bigger heads next year, but that means using up more of my limited yeild on seed. On the other hand, they are not as sellable since there's only two cloves per head. They are wicked roasted since there is little peeling so maybe I should just keep them for our home use..... If you have any feedback for me I would greatly appreciate it! Julia I’ve been growing garlic in the Ottawa Ontario area now for about 6 years but I’m still learning. I have a question that I’m hoping someone can answer… but first a little background.

We are a very small producer. We grow about 1800 plants a year. (that’s the number that works best for us for the level of manual effort and the size of our raised bed plots.) We keep about a 1/3 for next year’s seed, eat about 1/3 (or give away to family) and sell about 1/3. The money that we get from the sellings is put back into the garden in soil amendments and straw etc. sort of a win-win on a great hobby. We grow two varieties, Music and Russian Reds (at least that’s what they were called when I bought them at the farmers market years ago) here’s my question:

With the Music, the cloves are huge but often there are only two jumbo cloves per head! I know that the bigger the clove you plant the better, but are the twosies pre-disposed to produce another batch of twosies? Part of me says plant them and I’ll get bigger heads next year, but that means using up more of my limited yeild on seed. On the other hand, they are not as sellable since there’s only two cloves per head. They are wicked roasted since there is little peeling so maybe I should just keep them for our home use…..

If you have any feedback for me I would greatly appreciate it!

Julia

]]> By: Kenny Point http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/gourmet-garlic-scapes/#comment-67557 Kenny Point Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:48:01 +0000 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/gourmet-garlic-scapes/#comment-67557 Hi Lin, I'm so used to growing the hardneck garlic varieties and all of the one's that I grow produce a stalk and scapes but I should have thought about that... it's the same reason that you can only use the softneck garlic varieties to braid into garlic wreaths. Good luck with growing some scapes in your garden next season. Hi Lin, I’m so used to growing the hardneck garlic varieties and all of the one’s that I grow produce a stalk and scapes but I should have thought about that… it’s the same reason that you can only use the softneck garlic varieties to braid into garlic wreaths. Good luck with growing some scapes in your garden next season.

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