Read more: 14 Tips For Growing A Healthy Garden Flowering garlic isn't actually a bad thing ... the 4 to 12 mini cloves (the botanical name is bulbils) that form in the bulbous end of the scapes ...

Here's where the garlic scapes come in. If you leave garlic scapes to grow and mature, they'll develop something called bulbils, which are like mini garlic cloves. One garlic scape can have as ...