bonus garlic

We didn’t plant any garlic this year but we had a (small) harvest anyway. It seems that we didn’t get it all out of the ground last year and two bulbs overwintered providing us with nine new plants; ergo, bonus garlic. Given all of the unpleasant surprises we gardeners face each growing season, this [...read more]

Garlic Scapes!

What?  What’s a garlic scape? Well, when a hardneck garlic variety reaches it final growth phase it sends up a curly shoot called a scape.  This is basically the garlic flower head and they need to be removed to force the plant to put more energy into making a bigger bulb.   Scapes are [...read more]


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