Jul. 8—Depending on when you planted them, garlic bulbs won't be ready to harvest until the fall or after the winter. However, scrumptious green garlic scapes pop up in the spring and early summer and ...

Garlic scapes, those hardy green stems that grow in the spring from the tops of hardneck garlic bulbs, make a unique and wonderful pesto. In fact, garlic scape pesto gives us the best of all culinary ...

Harvesting garlic scapes, the tender stems produced before the bulb matures, is great way to encourage bulb growth and can add a tasty green to your diet. This is a strong, concentrated condiment, ...

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Edited version of a story first published June 26, 2007: A few weeks before harvest, growers of hardneck garlic find their crop sporting loopy green pig's tails faintly bulging with seed-like bulbils.

Rebecca Flint Marx is the former editor of Eater at Home. Her areas of expertise include home cooking and popular culture. The book was inspired in part by Prakash’s work as a magazine recipe ...

Garlic scapes are a popular sight at many local farmers markets and supermarkets in the late spring and early summer. In the same vein as garlic cloves, scapes can be sautéed in a medley of veggies, ...

Egg prices might still be kind of a mess, but if you have a problem with blossom end rot on your tomato plants, you can get a little extra mileage out of those pricey hen fruits by turning their ...

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