When Do You Cut Garlic Scapes? If you’ve planted hardneck garlic, it produces tall, curling stems about a month before you ...

But what you probably don't love is peeling all those cloves. It's time-consuming and tedious, especially when you have a lot of garlic to peel (and if, like me, you often throw in some extra).

Garlic scapes – also called garlic shoots – are the long, thin, sturdy stems that grow out of the garlic bulb. Many vendors trim off the elongated flower bud at the tip of the scape ...