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  • From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] scape pricing
  • Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:14:53 -0400

I also have more detailed question, re what part sold vs price.  I harvest at first bend so tender, and pull the scape out or snap it off, with stem attached.  I have a friend who sells to restaurants who says they only want the tips.  So, I assume only tips sells for a lot more than tips with tender stems?

 

Beth Spaugh

Rehoboth Homestead, Peru NY

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From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Thomas P Hurtgen
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 10:08 AM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] scape pricing

 

Richard and others,  ... am a first-time garlic grower.  When and how are scapes harvested?  I've read to harvest scapes while they are still curled (vs straight, I guess).  How much of the stem below the bulb is harvested?  Thanks for any suggestions that you can offer.  Tom  (7B)


Thomas P Hurtgen

 



 

On Jun 13, 2011, at 8:25 AM, Richard Stewart wrote:



Three farmers that grow and sell within 30 miles of each other.  Mike and I are at the same markets, which are heavily urban and Lucy is north of us in Oxford and Eaton and fairly rural.

 

We sell little garlic right now (selling nothing but our smallest heads at winter market for a premium) so scapes cover the costs of growing the seed crop, which is something to consider.  With the exception of elephant we grow nothing but stiff neck garlic specifically because of scapes and look at them as part of the cash crop.

 

Richard Stewart

Carriage House Farm

North Bend, Ohio

 

An Ohio Century Farm Est. 1855

 

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