Similar to green onions, scapes must be cut from hardneck plants before harvest, as the production of bulbils can rob energy and nutrients from the plant and result in smaller garlic heads at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most farmers harvest their crops in the fall, but Luke Ahrndt and Brian Neff just planted theirs in late September. With their garlic cloves tucked into bed for the winter, patience is a virtue ...