Pickled Garlic Scapes

A deliciously mild garlic flavor you can add to anything. You can create too!

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What’s a Garlic Scape?

So glad you asked. A garlic scape simply is the flower of the Hardneck garlic variety. It grows from the bulb and if left, will flower and produce many little garlic seeds.

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Why Garlic?

About 10 years ago a good friend had all these garlic plants hanging upside down in her garage. I asked what’s that? I was fascinated about the idea—not to mention, I use garlic in everything.

Over those years, I have experimented with how to grow. I bought bulbs at the grocery store—dropped them in the soil in the fall—they grew. But wha…