WOW Garlic lady!

Love your avatar and yours pictures!

My goodness! You have my mouth hanging wide open! hahahaaha

Wow! Impressive photos, all. I harvested about 15 German hardnecks today. They range considerably in size, so I guess I've got a learning curve. However, I did puncture the largest one (of course) with the digging fork. Can I just let it dry and use the whole cloves for planting, or will the hole create a problem? This is all very exciting!

Here's another thing to do with your scapes. Dry them and make something artistic with them. They turn a beautiful silver color and get nice and stiff. I think maybe put in dried flower arrangements, or whatever. Here is a pic of todays fresh ones and last years cut off ones that went too far for eating. I am going to try a mobile with them. It could be cool. They are very light and strong once dry. All you need to do is slide the dried skins off. A job only suited for good gloves. Ask me how I know. Imagine how good that garlic feels in the nice paper cut it just inflicted on you? AH_CHI_MAMA

Here's just the dried ones.Think of something to do with them and post it.

Garlic Lady...wow! That's quite the crop you have there...beautiful.

Muddy knees David...could you use the dried scapes as the "ribs" of a basket or woven pouch? They are cool looking...do they have that heavenly smell? I was too greedy to let any of ours dry...they are scrumptious!

Peace

Gail

Gail, I don't see why not. The arc isn't very wide, so the basket wouldn't be very big, but as a backbone for a purse they should work great. The aroma drops off once dry unfortunately.

......just a quick post with my coffee.......I'm late for a date with a hoe......

Garlic Lady - .....sweet....

Dave !!! - .....quick, braid some of those scapes while they are tender enough to bend........then dry them.

....gotta go, hope ya'll have a most excellent Garlic day.

Great idea MHG! Wish I had heard about it when I first cut the scapes. Bumping for an update. Check the first page, chapter 9

What is a scrape? I've never grown garlic but would like to try. When do you harvest in the summer?
Terry