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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] GARLIC SCAPE
  • Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 18:12:18 -0400

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:09:48 -0400, you wrote:

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><font size="+1"><font face="Hoefler Text">The scape is the flower stalk
>of hardneck garlic. Softnecked garlics don't shoot up a flower stalk.
>cut the scape off at the base of the scape, not the plant. to find the
>base grab the scape and follow it down to where it comes out of the
>plant and than either snap it off or cut it with a knife. I cut mine
>when there is one curl in the scape and the flower has not developed
>much. if you cut them later they tend to be quite tough.<br>
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Thanks, Lucy!

Pat
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