I do have a lot of garlic growing, but no scapes yet, it's just barely spring here in Michigan and the garlic is about 2 inches tall.

I'll remember this, though, for the time when I'm cutting scapes and trying to figure out what to do with them, thanks.

Annie

Thanks for sharing.

Madonna

You're welcome. I'm glad this forum is active!

I was talking about the leaves and stalks, rather than the scapes. The scapes have a different texture, I think, but they're great—I don't think I've tried them on pizza, yet. My garlic plants were maybe 12 to 30" tall.

This is my first time trimming them down to the ground in the spring like I do with bunching onions. I'm curious how it'll affect them the rest of the year, and if it'll delay the bulbils/scapes and/or change the bulb size for better or worse. I'm also curious how often I can harvest it like that per year.

I put a lot of the frozen cut up garlic greens on the pizza (not just a few pieces or anything).

If they're not frozen first, they might have a different taste/texture.

Garlic leaves will be tougher when the scapes grow (I've tasted then then), but the leaves look the same now as they do then.

Garlic scapes are great on pizza, and so are ramps, though they're passing now.

You are using the young new garlic growth from Fall planting seed?

I would be concerned that you are interfering with bulb growth. The leaves are the entire photosynthesis 'factory' in good bulb formation. The scape I believe has more to do with reproduction so not really needed at all. I like the scapes used in egg dishes and pizza, focaccia, pasta salads,stir fry, etc. If I catch them young, tender, and curly.

This is garlic that has been in that spot since last May, June or so (most grown from bulbils and one—it's more than one now—from a clove: both came from garlic that has been in our garden for a super long time). The above-soil growth is spring growth. I was transplanting them anyway; so, that's why I cut the greens off.

It might sound atrocious to cut the greens off before a transplant, but I have my reasons, and I've found it to be highly effective with the plants I've tried it with, so far (I don't cut off all the greens for all kinds of plants, though; I basically just remove the old growth that would probably wilt and stunt the plant anyway, except for alliums, sorrel and such). The garlic leaves are growing back quickly. We have plenty of other garlic, too.

My garlic is barely up. At both my mother’s current and my late father’s yard there are lots of garlic volunteers. I will try it. I am one the odd people who doesn’t like scapes though I generally love all things Allium.

That makes sense. My old garlic and leek beds were over-run with rudbeckia that I let run wild. Both beds are full of volunteer bulbils coming up now that I use in cooking. My new last year garlic bed I will not touch as it is doing so well...still using garlic from last years harvest.