Garlic Scapes

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?JYAFL 14 June 2015 Garlic Scapes.
The garlic is at the producing scape stage, which is the curly stem which produces bulbils at the end if allowed to mature.The scapes may be cut off and used at this stage. Also I don’t particularly enjoy the scapes in cookery. There is some reports that larger cloves form if the scapes are removed. I have encountered no evidence of this. I let the bulbils mature until the main bulb is harvested. Experience has indicated that larger cloves form if the cloves are allowed to mature until the skin of the bulbs just starts to burst. In other words storage time is increased, since the cloves can dry more thoroughly. Also shown in the pictures is two rows of elephant garlic, first time grown, and a row of bulbils planted in 2014.The crop will be harvested about the end of July.The main garlic is from my own saved bulbs from the 2014 crop. The elephant garlic was purchased from the supermarket.