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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Gene; This year I found that I must have missed a lot of garlic during my
harvest last year. It was all coming up in clumps. I dug, separated, and
replanted a bunch in hopes of having each clove form a bulb, but when I
got tired of  that, I pulled  whole clumps and ate it like green onion.
Its great in salads.

I like using the scapes (the curly stalk with the seedhead) because I get
2 different harvests from the same plant.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Peasant Farmer
Tioga County, PA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 8:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Garlic scape question


>
> On Jun 22, 2007, at 9:59 AM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
>
> > Stalk of garlic??  So I looked into it and sure enough most garlic
> > around the
> > world is grown as green garlic.
>
> Thanks for the research. The crux of the matter for me is that I
> never have enough garlic for our yearly consumption. I spend more
> time on garlic bed preparation than on making ready any other seed
> bed. These two factors make me most loathe to do anything that would
> diminish the bulb harvest. I have eaten the curly veggie-like tops of
> some varieties as that does not diminish the harvest. But to eat a
> stalk would be to kill the plant, would it not?
>
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