The garlic scapes are sprouting and ready for harvest! Garlic scapes are the tender stem and flower bud of a hardneck garlic plant. Scapes grow out of the garlic bulb and then coil up toward the sky, before flowering. Once they curl, and before they actually flower, they are ready to be chopped off and eaten. It’s almost like having another harvest of tender milder garlic or onions. And it’s important to remove the scapes from hardneck garlic because the plant’s natural process to flower and rep