Northern Hemisphere Garlic Ranchers/2024 Crop

[crunch1224]

I pickle some of my scapes and man they are delicious. As for the rest I use them in stir fry, omelets, green bean casserole, salads, ect.

[JRinPA]

Just singin' in the rain..

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[Whwoz]

I pickle some of my scapes and man they are delicious. As for the rest I use them in stir fry, omelets, green bean casserole, salads, ect.

How do you pickle your scapes? Any special spice blend or technique used Crunch1224

[JRinPA]

Yes pickled scapes! @crunch1224

[svalli]

I love pickled garlic scapes. It is great way to use them. Also a spicy relish made from the minced scapes is good.

Last year I crushed scapes and lovage with sea salt and spread the mush on a parchment paper. After dehydrating I powdered it in the blender to make my own seasoned salt.

This thread has some links to recipes.
viewtopic.php?p=71627&hilit=scapes#p71627

[JRinPA]

My long row was still pretty weed free, but the edge weeds were starting to creep on the row. So I cut them back today with a colinear hoe, and then covered that long row with shredded leaf mulch. I may have changed my mind about transplanting okra into that bed, as I think I don't want to compromise the okra at all this year. They may well get their own row. I still think it would work.

[bower]

Snowbanks are receding off the beds here, and so far there's no sign that voles decided to tunnel into them over winter. Best news I could hope for, and garlic sprouts should be up in a week or two.

[crunch1224]

I pickle some of my scapes and man they are delicious. As for the rest I use them in stir fry, omelets, green bean casserole, salads, ect.

How do you pickle your scapes? Any special spice blend or technique used Crunch1224

I'm partial to my dill recipe. 50/50 mix 5% vinegar to water, sugar not a lot, salt, McCormic pickle spice, crushed red pepper, pickle crisp, some sliced onions, some grape leaves if I have them, a dill head per jar. I might have to use dill seed this year because im starting a new patch of dill. Thats about it for the recipe nothing special.

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Garlic's coming along extra primo good, this weekend's rain ain't gonna hurt:

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The Gotch

[crunch1224]

Garlic's coming along extra primo good, this weekend's rain ain't gonna hurt:
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The Gotch

The Garlics looking great there Gotch. What types did you grow?

[JRinPA]

I was looking at mine today, trying to find damage from that leaf miner. If I see the damage, make sense to just break the leaf off below the damage? It would be worth an hour, a couple times. But I couldn't really tell if I saw any. There are some older leaves that have a spot and then it folds over there, and looks kind of yellow tipped. But they are the oldest leaves that would have seen freezes.