🌱🧄If you see tall stems with flower buds appearing on your garlic, pick them off and take them to the kitchen. Garlic scapes are delicious cooked up as a garlicky green, and taking them off means the plant can focus on growing bigger cloves/bulbs. They appear on hard-neck and elephant garlic and can be relatively straight or curly. They also appear about now, in late spring. Soft-neck garlic doesn't form scapes in case you're not seeing any appear on your garlic and wonder why. It's the remain