What is the correct way to dry garlic?

[MaureenHall]

What's "scapes"? Never heard of this term before - but I'm a real novice!!

[HeyWayne]

What's "scapes"? Never heard of this term before - but I'm a real novice!!

It's like when a prisoner gets out of jail - they've 'scaped.

[jacob marley]

Scrape's are the stalk with the flower bud on that grow's out of top of the garlic plant not all varietys flower you break them of just before they open into flower and some where on here is the way to cook them jacob marley

[wg.]

Scapes are leafless flower stalks and should be removed as soon as the seed head is visible.

Scapes are produced by hard necked garlic varieties but also leek, shallot, onion, chives, tulips, daylily, flowering alliums, etc

[nerobot]

Marigold - Planted mine in spring (around the same time as yours), and they look like they will need another month or so. So yours might just need more time too.

Steven

[Iamhanuman]

can i resurrect this thread?

i planted my garlic - around 50 i think but can't quite recall now!! - in Spring all over the place in different sized containers.
some have got huge and I have already harvested the scapes on them, some are medium and a number are very small and falling over and about a third brown leaves

my son's enthusiasm for all things growing meant we harvested some of the smaller ones to see what was going on
as mentioned above they are pretty weeny, all smaller than the organic bulbs you get in the grocery stores but still recognisable as garlic.

1. is it worth me leaving these in longer (i'm thinking i freed up some space to enlarge for the remainders lifting this bunch of blighters anyhow)
2. can i hang these wee ones up in my little greenhouse to dry even though they are hardneck
3. how long does it take to get to the papery skin stage, i.e. how long is a piece of string
4. what can be done with 'green' garlic

so many questions!!!!

[gojiberry]

Looking at the photo of flapjacks garlic I think you have pulled far to early as there was an awful lot of green looking tops on your garlic. The tops should be brown and withered looking before lifting, then if the weather is dry lift from the soil and leave in the sun for a few days by which time the outer leaves should be thin and papery. They can then be strung up and stored. I am holding off for at least a couple of weeks and some may well be longer.

Ian

[Iamhanuman]

roasted some green garlic with our edzell blue tatties

luvverly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!