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 ...

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As avid plant and food lovers, little brings us more joy and hope after a long, frigid winter than seeing spring's first shoots pop up out of the soil. Along with asparagus, hearty leafy greens, peas, ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

Our resident chef shares a primer on garlic, as well as recipes celebrating the ingredient she prizes above all. Garlic Scapes, Green Garlic And Roasted Garlic: Recipes And Tips Of all the ingredients ...