Our local family friend and fifth-generation family farmer just over the mountain GIVES garlic scapes away, to those of us who are in the know. She opens up the farm stand regular on the 4th of July, here in the Skook. Schuylkill County, PA. Our own garden this year was late, and is a crapshoot. After the long-suffering wife, (she's married to me, eh?) had a massive stroke on May 26, everything except her continued and improving life, (thank the Lord, even though you're a heathen, you bastard, lol), went to double-H hockey sticks. But she's finally home now, and soon I'll venture forth into the backyard hillside jungle to do battle against the forces of chaos. With her supervision, of course!
@@dangray4086 gardening requires patience, and beer. My tomatoes have been a disaster this year. Heavy rain and wind at the end of last year have washed up the otherwise nutrient rich soil and left a sandy mess. Not to fret though, my cucumbers compensate plentiful. Onwards and upwards I suppose.
@@AlinTrinca Try some peat moss in the bottom of the hole before you put the tomato plant in. ( because they do like moist roots, Jerry Baker says to use new diapers batting in the hole ) Meanwhile I have cherry tomatoes popping up by themselves all over the place...
@@dylldobaggins4594 Yeah, but animals shit out seeds all the time, too. In fact they are meant to transport seeds all over which is why some seeds are not digestible for avian life. (if you want a natural border just put a string up between 2 points and the birds will land and poop out there seeds below you will have a natural border) These wild cherry tomatoes show up just feet from the rear alley drainage system. Tons of squirrel and bird activity there, ocassionally even a possum!
5im so glad you taught me this. I always saw people just cracking them at the top. The scapes are always tiny, and I always thought it was not worth the trouble. That like 75% more scape than I was aware you could harvest.
idk how i never heard of these until 2 weeks ago, and now they're everywhere haha... Made some absolutely fantastic pesto using garlic scapes instead of cloves the other day. So good!
Must be this global warming, um, I mean climate change, um, cyclical changes or you got the soil and nutrients tuned up just right and the weather worked its magic.
Set out some Egyptian Walking Onions. Once established, they spread slowly and never have to be replanted. You can harvest them all year - even in Canada.
I never knew about garlic scapes until last week, when my planted garlic started sending out twirly fronds!! The Wife explained them to me. We will be harvesting them tomorrow!! Stay well, Brother!
Amazing, and easy if you have the space to grow your own. Lots of folks don't though...apartment living or other circumstances. There is a systematic issue with the world that keeps lots of folks down. There is enough to go around, but for many it is a very very difficult life. Just remember that and don't forget them.
Available every year at the Ontario Food Terminal from the garlic farmers. Ask you local grocery store to carry it. It provides the garlic farmers with some income because they don’t get paid until the fall when they harvest.
The owl irish roots is coming out or you AVE 🇨🇦 🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇦 ,great to see the vegie beds all coming on great were are the owl spuds do? Brother 😮 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪 ,your getting better luck and results than we are overhear ,well done AVE, garden is looking great I'll send u a few pics of my own , this year I'm growing all wild Berry trees, raspberry trees and natural strawberry and wild ones too as as well as a mix of wild plants and weeds , to help our little bees and me veg is only to sprout now ,,but I've a killer rhubarb plant growing its been in the familt well over 150 to 200 hundred years now , so keeping a close eye on it ,,over the years we cut parts off the root to pass around from family to family especially when they were married and moving away from Dublin to the country, that same plant i know is still growing stromg now in 27 places all from the one plant my great grand gave to his son ,,my granddad gave it to my day and now im take snipets of it to give it to other family that give a shit ,, sorry a long story but a nice one AVE. I'll see if I can send u over a good root and u will have ur own 200 year old irish rhubarb for ur own garden ,thanks AVE keep the stick in the ice 😅😅😅😅😅😅 🏒⛸️
You can make a great coleslaw-ish salat with the Kohlrabi. Put it raw through a grater and add other raw vegetables such as carrots, radish, sprouts of any kind and tomatoes. add some mild chese, olive oil and or a little vinigar to round it of. Its a great summer salat especially when its cold. Kohlrabi tastes the best when its raw anyway :D
Got .20 acres tilled and 2/3 of that planted this year. Had 4 goats in January the two ladies gave me three more by February's end. Got my chooch's putting out about 6 eggs a day. The beavers built me and my two neighbors a nice little pond last summer that the ducks and heron like to visit. And now there's even some small fishes swimming about. Caught a couple black snakes this year. And watched a half dozen turtles lay eggs in the yard, between the bunnies and the two groundhogs. I have never been so happy as this spring and summer at my small farm. About 2 weeks ago my boss told me he is taking a better director's position at a more estimed research center and asked me if I'd like to come along. I am on track to 0 debt in 5 years here, the move would be excellent for my career but I'm not sure I want to give up what I have been building here. I know I could build again but this has really begun to feel like home. I got a few more months to think on it though... Love your garden sir. Your broad base of knowledge and your youtube channel helped steer me toward my career path and I would like to thank you for making me aware of the options those of us who never wanted to stop playing with Lego could pursue professionally. I wish you and your family the best uncle...
I added minced garlic to my fish dinner this evening. It was so good, but now I'm hating life. Then I see this video in my feed? The planets have truly aligned.
So true, global food and water scarcity/insecurity is a policy problem, not a nature problem. I planted lettuces and kale last year, they are incredibly easy to grow and delicious. I can't believe I haven't done onions and garlic before, looks good buddy.
You can’t make water appear where it isn’t though. Population centers have grown up around resources but not necessarily the kind humans need to survive. Just look at the Southern California area, drought and water shortages for decades, rolling brown outs. You can’t fix that wirh policy. Las Vegas exists where it shouldn’t, California is going to suck them dry just like lake Meade. Industrialization creates population density that is centered in locations that aren’t naturally capable of supporting it.
Victory Gardens are a bit of work especially dealing with wildlife and bugs but once you have a system the payoff is much better quality produce and lower grocery bills. We have all been brain washed.
Something about garlic seems to do wonders for my immune system, probably because im lebanese and not getting a regular dosage of garlic gives me withdrawals
I live at the edge of a forest. For every single type of vegetable I've tried to grow, there's a new bug I've never seen before that will come out and eat it. Kale -- weird beetles. Tomatoes -- huge horned caterpillars. Root vegetables -- something ate them without even coming up. All I've got are stinging nettles and at least they're tasty in the spring time. And I'm going for some berry bushes this season -- wish me luck, I'm going to need it 😞
shocked speechless i thought the man lived on bacon and hashbrowns. not only that ive been pinching the only tops of the garlic scapes myself.....learned a new trick to boot.
I usually leave a couple what for planting on the next season once all the bulbils develop- even gotten the rare actual garlic seeds out of em pullin the bulbils off to give the flowers space to be pollinated and develop
Yesterday I heard a guy say, "There's a crazy leprechaun living under my house who steals my socks!" When everyone looked at him strangely, he said, "That's what ya call artistic license. No one would listen if I said the drunk Irish guy who lives downstairs accidentally grabbed my socks from the laundry room." If he would have said "chooch" I would *know* he's a fan!
1st year growing Garlic. This is the second time I've heard the words scapes into days. Your vidjao comes 8 hours too late. I ripped them out and chucked them. I know, pearls before swine. Next year for sure.
My dad Is a garlic farmer. He makes a mean garlic scape pesto that would make any Itallian fuming mad. Scapes, walnuts, asiago, olive oil, blend, enjoy.
Are those elephant garlic? If so, they are 'actually' part of the leek family. A (true) garlic bulb is a specialised leaf. The whole garlic plant is edible and tastes strongly of garlic. There are two main types of garlic, hardneck & softneck. Hardneck have scapes, softneck are the type that can be plaited. Elephant garlic have scapes too, but like the plant look a little different to real garlic.
@@zeeek1For the largest heads you plant garlic in the fall, if you planted it now and you live where it gets cold you will have tiny bulbs when the plant dies out. Don't give up on it. Once the lower 5 leaves turn yellow dig up your garlic and let it set somewhere shaded to cure. This fall take the largest cloves and plant them 2 inches in the ground, do not fertilize garlic like it was an onion, just leave it. Cover the area where you planted the garlic heavily with straw to keep weeds out. Then if you planted the garlic in late September/early October it should be ready to dig in July, I do mean dig, it should have tremendous roots. Then when you have the large bulbs you can think to yourself "I'll never have to buy garlic again" which is what my Great Grandmother told my Mom near 40 years ago when the family heirloom garlic was handed down. Soft necks are typically more pungent and don't produce scapes every time, hard necks will make scapes everytime and are typically milder in flavor. In case you didn't guess it, I am a produce farmer
I grew a shit ton of garlic and potatoes over this past winter(growing in Florida). Now that it's summer time I have some 9ft+ tall cherry tomato plants, and tomatoes OUT THE ASS lol. Funny thing is I don't even like tomatoes unless its in pasta, salsa, or ketchup form. Also experimented with two of those broccolini over winter, grew like a weed and delicious too.
Video request: please share your knowledge about how to identify INTERIOR threads. Identifying exterior threads (on something like a common machine bolt) is easy using one of those thread-pitch gauges. Identifying interior threads is a pain in the ass. For identifying interior threads they sell those long cables of nuts and bolts which you are supposed to plug into whatever hole like some sort of ape. There must be better ways.
Brussels sprout tops are a lovely green. Pick the leaves before they go tough but leave enough so the damn thing keeps growing and then come back in a week for more.
Last year I started something new. Took 1/2 my scapes and cut them into small pieces and threw them into the dehydrator. Once dehydrated put them into the food processor and made them into a powder. Sprinkled it on everything.
Try growing a garlic bulb for a few weeks. Classic trick is to cut a milk bottle carton and place indiviual bulbs into holes in the carton. Once each clove grows to about 15-20cm length pick the whole thing, chop and add to carbonarra. The cooking is a celebrity chef trick and the milk bottle method is an old indian(Asia India for Americans) trick. It's hard to do because your hard earn galic clove is grown to create a whole new bulb, but in this case creates less than a clove. But the delicate taste is well worth it.
Great garden you've got there! I definitely need to improve my growing skills. Peppers are supposed to be pretty easy and I've been struggling to grow even the common varieties.
I hold low on the stock and pull too. Get most of the tender scape this way, toss the flower end. Spicy scape pickles go great on pizza or as garnish for a ceaser. Also delicious fried with fatty pork bits. Try Dandelion flower pakoras. Gotta pick the scapes if you want big garlic
Two days to late I already picked my scapes and broke everyone of them off. Next year ill know. I thought they had a relly complex interesting flavore so I wanted to develop it more rough chopped them and cabbage salt lacto fermented sauerkraut had anough for two jars added some gotchujang flakes for a spicy kimchi sort of version on the second jar
U should plant some cucamelons! They look like a grape sized watermelon but taste like a cucumber with a hint of lime or something. Been growing them a couple years now and they are my new favorite garden treat 👍
@@HesTNTonPMS super easy to grow and they literally produce hundreds of the little fruits or whatever you would call them. They vine so put up a cattle panel or something for them to climb and they do great. I’d never heard of them till a couple years ago, just happened to see them at the nursery as I was getting other veggies for the garden.
I've never seen that trick. I did two full beds of garlic this year, well planted last year. I ended up with them in the ground a little early, it didn't frost f or something like a month after I planted. Not ideal, they started growing before it got cold. But most of them made it. I only got a few scapes though and the rest just started falling over like they were ready to harvest. Oh well, didn't get huge bulbs but I have enough garlic to last me a long while anyway. I'll try your trick next year with the scapes.
I can get wild garlic by the sack load, smells so good when I'm out by the river trying to snag a fish or three. I don't do all that carp farmed garbage. I do know a guy who never has to buy veg from the usual scumbags, got his own plot etc very nice guy and green fingered af!! if your having problems let me know and I'll ask him what he do. He doesn't like computers so I'm kinda the middle hand....looking good so far though. Have yourself and family a great day.
well thanks for the tip on the "pinch" method... my Baby Doll just picks the tops off.. but here's a tip for you! She grinds all her scapes in a blender with a bit of olive oil, parsley and touch of salt. Take the resulting mush and load'em up into icecube trays. Freeze them cock stiff and use them as a seasoning addition all year long for soups and sauces.. you're welcome! and thanks for all your education and entertainment. This time the wife learned something! lol
When I was living next to my landlady before I bought my own place, she would give us Garlic Scapes every summer. Very good in Chow Mein. They also sell them at T&T, for those of you who don't live inland.
The thought that you don't have enough room to grow your own stuff just astounds me. Zucchinis and tomatoes in particular. They'll grow just about anywhere. Low maintenance demand keeping pests out. And patience. Boom. Saved a couple bucks this week. Tastes better. More healthy. Nothin special. Toss some seeds along the sunny side of the shed. Come back later. 'Nuff said.
Dang, eastern europe finally got to you. Spring garlic and spring onions replace 85% of the north american healthcare system.
Our local family friend and fifth-generation family farmer just over the mountain GIVES garlic scapes away, to those of us who are in the know. She opens up the farm stand regular on the 4th of July, here in the Skook. Schuylkill County, PA.
Our own garden this year was late, and is a crapshoot. After the long-suffering wife, (she's married to me, eh?) had a massive stroke on May 26, everything except her continued and improving life, (thank the Lord, even though you're a heathen, you bastard, lol), went to double-H hockey sticks. But she's finally home now, and soon I'll venture forth into the backyard hillside jungle to do battle against the forces of chaos. With her supervision, of course!
@@dangray4086 gardening requires patience, and beer.
My tomatoes have been a disaster this year. Heavy rain and wind at the end of last year have washed up the otherwise nutrient rich soil and left a sandy mess.
Not to fret though, my cucumbers compensate plentiful.
Onwards and upwards I suppose.
@@AlinTrinca Try some peat moss in the bottom of the hole before you put the tomato plant in. ( because they do like moist roots, Jerry Baker says to use new diapers batting in the hole ) Meanwhile I have cherry tomatoes popping up by themselves all over the place...
@@johnpossum556 Sounds like someone’s been crapping in your garden.
Fun fact: Sewage treatment plants often have tomatoes growing all over the place.
@@dylldobaggins4594 Yeah, but animals shit out seeds all the time, too. In fact they are meant to transport seeds all over which is why some seeds are not digestible for avian life. (if you want a natural border just put a string up between 2 points and the birds will land and poop out there seeds below you will have a natural border) These wild cherry tomatoes show up just feet from the rear alley drainage system. Tons of squirrel and bird activity there, ocassionally even a possum!
Squeeze the shaft until you hear a crack. Ya might need to use 2 hands to pull it off.
Thats what she said 😂😂😂😂
@@TGD278 he said it and he wrote it
It hurts just thinking about it.
If you get to the white part, you know you did it right 👍
@@stephendunleavy623
Uh, boss. Is something wrong if the white part has a tinge of yellow? Asking for a friend. 🧄🧅🌭🥩🍻ಥ_ಥ(٥↼_↼)
The technology in garlic has certainly come a long way in the 21st century.
Very kind of you to share the craft with us.
Who knew with a quarter turn right then left I could be able to get a few more inches.
I wish this video would've arrived a month earlier
Don;t forget you need to pinch it till it snaps two times before you twist and pull guy!
Don't got gettin ahead of yerself
5im so glad you taught me this. I always saw people just cracking them at the top. The scapes are always tiny, and I always thought it was not worth the trouble. That like 75% more scape than I was aware you could harvest.
The irony at the end. All those fresh, adjective slathered, vegetables drowned in boiling fat.
s/drowned/crisped to perfection/
@@lucienve 😂
idk how i never heard of these until 2 weeks ago, and now they're everywhere haha... Made some absolutely fantastic pesto using garlic scapes instead of cloves the other day. So good!
Got them with my crop share this week, first time I heard of them too. New patch must have gone out Tuesday on the matrix. No doubt.
Garlic scapes instead of cloves???
Did you mean garlic scapes instead of basil???
@@diggysoze2897 no, i meant instead of cloves of garlic
Awesome. Our garden is coming in nicely. Best year in the last five so far.
Must be this global warming, um, I mean climate change, um, cyclical changes or you got the soil and nutrients tuned up just right and the weather worked its magic.
Same, are you in Texas too?
@@alektad I'm in Michigan
Set out some Egyptian Walking Onions. Once established, they spread slowly and never have to be replanted. You can harvest them all year - even in Canada.
The biggest user of kale used to be Pizza Hut. They didn't feed it to you, they used it to decorate the salad bar.
Not even bugs will eat kale.
Not true. The green cabbage worm will happily eat kale-as will anyone who doesn't want to look like one of the whales at a Pizza Hut salad bar.
3:38 "tis amazing how big something can get, from something so small "she said
I have the scapes right now. We cook em up with some butter, Chris p. Bacon and some thinly sliced garlicks
I never knew about garlic scapes until last week, when my planted garlic started sending out twirly fronds!! The Wife explained them to me. We will be harvesting them tomorrow!! Stay well, Brother!
That's one hell of a vagetable patch you have there, all good and homegrown.
The misses makes garlic scapes into a pesto that is quite delightful.
You're right! It is really damn amazing, and is a phenomenon that we take for granted. Thanks for shining the light on a true miracle of nature.
Amazing, and easy if you have the space to grow your own. Lots of folks don't though...apartment living or other circumstances. There is a systematic issue with the world that keeps lots of folks down. There is enough to go around, but for many it is a very very difficult life. Just remember that and don't forget them.
Love it! my first ever veg garden is starting to pop off too and its magical 🤩
All right.... Bumble fork must be watching me bent over in the garden. I just harvested my scapes yesterday.
Rutabagas , we calls them Turnips down here on 'The Rock'! Grows them sweeter in our acid soil too! :)
What about parsnips? Aren't they another one of those weird root things that aren't quite potatoes or carrots?
wow you got all the bitter and mild greens to make saag in your garden 😮
Available every year at the Ontario Food Terminal from the garlic farmers. Ask you local grocery store to carry it. It provides the garlic farmers with some income because they don’t get paid until the fall when they harvest.
The owl irish roots is coming out or you AVE 🇨🇦 🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇦 ,great to see the vegie beds all coming on great were are the owl spuds do? Brother 😮 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪 ,your getting better luck and results than we are overhear ,well done AVE, garden is looking great I'll send u a few pics of my own , this year I'm growing all wild Berry trees, raspberry trees and natural strawberry and wild ones too as as well as a mix of wild plants and weeds , to help our little bees and me veg is only to sprout now ,,but I've a killer rhubarb plant growing its been in the familt well over 150 to 200 hundred years now , so keeping a close eye on it ,,over the years we cut parts off the root to pass around from family to family especially when they were married and moving away from Dublin to the country, that same plant i know is still growing stromg now in 27 places all from the one plant my great grand gave to his son ,,my granddad gave it to my day and now im take snipets of it to give it to other family that give a shit ,, sorry a long story but a nice one AVE. I'll see if I can send u over a good root and u will have ur own 200 year old irish rhubarb for ur own garden ,thanks AVE keep the stick in the ice 😅😅😅😅😅😅 🏒⛸️
That's a mighty fine vege-table garden you have. I hope to have my own like that in the next 5 years
Funny timing or what, coworker just made some pakoras from scratch. First time I've had em, but scrum-diddly-umptious!
Squeeze the shaft and giver a pull with two hands is exactly what I ask the old lady to do every Sunday night. Alas no squeeze and tugs have been had.
You need to make some how to cook or recipe videos of that stuff, looks delicious.
My first year with homegrown Garlic and the weeds growing next to it are devils lettice Mmmm K
You can make a great coleslaw-ish salat with the Kohlrabi. Put it raw through a grater and add other raw vegetables such as carrots, radish, sprouts of any kind and tomatoes. add some mild chese, olive oil and or a little vinigar to round it of.
Its a great summer salat especially when its cold.
Kohlrabi tastes the best when its raw anyway :D
With just a squeeze of lemon... Hmm hmmm
I really like growing shallots. One diced shallot, some white wine vinegar, parsley, buttermilk, mayo and you have a fine very upscale ranch dressing.
Got .20 acres tilled and 2/3 of that planted this year.
Had 4 goats in January the two ladies gave me three more by February's end.
Got my chooch's putting out about 6 eggs a day.
The beavers built me and my two neighbors a nice little pond last summer that the ducks and heron like to visit.
And now there's even some small fishes swimming about.
Caught a couple black snakes this year. And watched a half dozen turtles lay eggs in the yard, between the bunnies and the two groundhogs.
I have never been so happy as this spring and summer at my small farm.
About 2 weeks ago my boss told me he is taking a better director's position at a more estimed research center and asked me if I'd like to come along.
I am on track to 0 debt in 5 years here, the move would be excellent for my career but I'm not sure I want to give up what I have been building here.
I know I could build again but this has really begun to feel like home.
I got a few more months to think on it though...
Love your garden sir. Your broad base of knowledge and your youtube channel helped steer me toward my career path and I would like to thank you for making me aware of the options those of us who never wanted to stop playing with Lego could pursue professionally.
I wish you and your family the best uncle...
Stay off it feels right. You have more than most will ever realize.
I'm reluctant to see AvE to have my catheter removed. He doesn't wash his hands first.
Looks fantastic.
I added minced garlic to my fish dinner this evening. It was so good, but now I'm hating life. Then I see this video in my feed? The planets have truly aligned.
So true, global food and water scarcity/insecurity is a policy problem, not a nature problem. I planted lettuces and kale last year, they are incredibly easy to grow and delicious. I can't believe I haven't done onions and garlic before, looks good buddy.
You can’t make water appear where it isn’t though. Population centers have grown up around resources but not necessarily the kind humans need to survive. Just look at the Southern California area, drought and water shortages for decades, rolling brown outs. You can’t fix that wirh policy. Las Vegas exists where it shouldn’t, California is going to suck them dry just like lake Meade. Industrialization creates population density that is centered in locations that aren’t naturally capable of supporting it.
Victory Gardens are a bit of work especially dealing with wildlife and bugs but once you have a system the payoff is much better quality produce and lower grocery bills. We have all been brain washed.
In my experience, the only victory was for the rabbits. I'm going to build some sort of raised garden on stilts.
Broccoli with some bacon, some blood-sausage with apple...........fire in the hole!!!! 🤣
Off topic but just wanted to say what's on all of our minds. Titan vid. Doesn't even have to be that good.
Amazing the ‘Frozen North’ can produce such abundance. I love it.
I used to drive a baja bug through 6 foot tall wild mustard fields, great fun.
I never knew this existed, my old man will love this!
When is dinner, like the sound of what you’re having. Keep it coming
Surprised that tyranny allows you to grow a garden .... wife is from BC too ... all the best from Arkansas!
Looks so lovely, great work! What a Farmer :)
late cold spring in Toronto; some examples of going to flower early.
Something about garlic seems to do wonders for my immune system, probably because im lebanese and not getting a regular dosage of garlic gives me withdrawals
I live at the edge of a forest. For every single type of vegetable I've tried to grow, there's a new bug I've never seen before that will come out and eat it. Kale -- weird beetles. Tomatoes -- huge horned caterpillars. Root vegetables -- something ate them without even coming up. All I've got are stinging nettles and at least they're tasty in the spring time. And I'm going for some berry bushes this season -- wish me luck, I'm going to need it 😞
shocked speechless i thought the man lived on bacon and hashbrowns.
not only that ive been pinching the only tops of the garlic scapes myself.....learned a new trick to boot.
I usually leave a couple what for planting on the next season once all the bulbils develop- even gotten the rare actual garlic seeds out of em pullin the bulbils off to give the flowers space to be pollinated and develop
beautiful greens!
The garlic may be mild, but the farts will be wild... :P
My man! Awesome garden!
This homegrown magic is as majestic as the fact this man lives under our floorboards
Him living under floor boards makes sense where the 10mms disappear to now.
@nou8257 Now I'm picturing AvE crawling around giggling with a pocketful of 10mm sockets.
@@thisguy2958 I can picture him doing that too
@@nou8257 He machined some kind of over-engineered magnet retrieval thing to collect them with.
Yesterday I heard a guy say, "There's a crazy leprechaun living under my house who steals my socks!" When everyone looked at him strangely, he said, "That's what ya call artistic license. No one would listen if I said the drunk Irish guy who lives downstairs accidentally grabbed my socks from the laundry room."
If he would have said "chooch" I would *know* he's a fan!
My grandma use to pickle those. Deliciousness
Nice!
I got garlic all over my yard. Didn't know this trick.
Thanks!
Tis is the content i supcribed for back when you were stil doin gold on UA-cam
Man, ya crazy Can-a-dzyia... you get HIGH marks !
Wow, I've just been cutting off our scapes just after the leaves stop! That's a ton of deliciousness that I've been wasting this whole time!
Cool thank you ! us wef Chinese guys and so on will enjoy save some for us, keep enjoying the show guy's.. 👍
1st year growing Garlic. This is the second time I've heard the words scapes into days. Your vidjao comes 8 hours too late. I ripped them out and chucked them. I know, pearls before swine. Next year for sure.
Great timing! My scapes have been ready for a snip but I guess I'll give this gentile way a try and give it a tug.
A bit late for me, collected'em a week ago.
My dad Is a garlic farmer. He makes a mean garlic scape pesto that would make any Itallian fuming mad. Scapes, walnuts, asiago, olive oil, blend, enjoy.
love your permaculture knowledge papi
Amazing garden I just started my first one this year
I had no idea about the garlic. Now I can’t wait to try this. I should have some ready in a few days !!
Are those elephant garlic? If so, they are 'actually' part of the leek family. A (true) garlic bulb is a specialised leaf. The whole garlic plant is edible and tastes strongly of garlic. There are two main types of garlic, hardneck & softneck. Hardneck have scapes, softneck are the type that can be plaited. Elephant garlic have scapes too, but like the plant look a little different to real garlic.
I just shoved a grocery store garlic clove in the garden a few days ago. It's about 8 inches high now. What will I get out of it?
@@zeeek1 a bulb of garlic
@@zeeek1For the largest heads you plant garlic in the fall, if you planted it now and you live where it gets cold you will have tiny bulbs when the plant dies out. Don't give up on it. Once the lower 5 leaves turn yellow dig up your garlic and let it set somewhere shaded to cure. This fall take the largest cloves and plant them 2 inches in the ground, do not fertilize garlic like it was an onion, just leave it. Cover the area where you planted the garlic heavily with straw to keep weeds out. Then if you planted the garlic in late September/early October it should be ready to dig in July, I do mean dig, it should have tremendous roots. Then when you have the large bulbs you can think to yourself "I'll never have to buy garlic again" which is what my Great Grandmother told my Mom near 40 years ago when the family heirloom garlic was handed down. Soft necks are typically more pungent and don't produce scapes every time, hard necks will make scapes everytime and are typically milder in flavor. In case you didn't guess it, I am a produce farmer
@@zeeek1 Depends where you are because garlic & onions follow long or short day growing patterns.
@@zeeek1 Grocery Store garlic is soft-neck, you will not get scapes
Don’t forget to plant the bacon seeds!
Spoken like a true vajaterian 👍😘
Garlic sprouts/scapes been readily available in most grocers and supermarkets here Down Under for years.
Must be a Canuckian phenomenon.
I grew a shit ton of garlic and potatoes over this past winter(growing in Florida). Now that it's summer time I have some 9ft+ tall cherry tomato plants, and tomatoes OUT THE ASS lol. Funny thing is I don't even like tomatoes unless its in pasta, salsa, or ketchup form. Also experimented with two of those broccolini over winter, grew like a weed and delicious too.
I will try that on our garlic. Cheers Ave.
Video request: please share your knowledge about how to identify INTERIOR threads.
Identifying exterior threads (on something like a common machine bolt) is easy using one of those thread-pitch gauges. Identifying interior threads is a pain in the ass.
For identifying interior threads they sell those long cables of nuts and bolts which you are supposed to plug into whatever hole like some sort of ape. There must be better ways.
Brussels sprout tops are a lovely green. Pick the leaves before they go tough but leave enough so the damn thing keeps growing and then come back in a week for more.
Gonna have to try the scape trick next season. Those pakoras looked "Ssh" cook-'em!
These are very good. I think one can find some at markets where I’m from, but not often.
Last year I started something new. Took 1/2 my scapes and cut them into small pieces and threw them into the dehydrator. Once dehydrated put them into the food processor and made them into a powder. Sprinkled it on everything.
Garlic scapes in egg or tuna salad has ruined me. Can’t eat it without the scapes now.
Try growing a garlic bulb for a few weeks. Classic trick is to cut a milk bottle carton and place indiviual bulbs into holes in the carton.
Once each clove grows to about 15-20cm length pick the whole thing, chop and add to carbonarra.
The cooking is a celebrity chef trick and the milk bottle method is an old indian(Asia India for Americans) trick.
It's hard to do because your hard earn galic clove is grown to create a whole new bulb, but in this case creates less than a clove. But the delicate taste is well worth it.
"If you have faith the size of a mustard seed..."
btw nice garden
Dang nab it. RIP my garlic crop for the year, the 5 days of winter we had before Christmas was enough kill it all off. Better luck next year.
Great garden you've got there! I definitely need to improve my growing skills. Peppers are supposed to be pretty easy and I've been struggling to grow even the common varieties.
FIRMLY GRASP IT. All jokes aside i've never heard of these secret garlic fellows.
Gettin ready for the apocalypse I see . . . .
Or the next lockdown.
Whicheverem comes first.
self reliance !
Bravo Old Timer!
You'll want to wash that nice food down with some victory gin and a victory cigarette, comrade.
One of my favorite things to sauté on the blackstone or a cast iron with a wee bit of butter, salt, and pepper. Good cooking AvE.
I hold low on the stock and pull too.
Get most of the tender scape this way, toss the flower end.
Spicy scape pickles go great on pizza or as garnish for a ceaser.
Also delicious fried with fatty pork bits.
Try Dandelion flower pakoras.
Gotta pick the scapes if you want big garlic
My wife just harvested some scapes.
Garlic seems to do rather well in the frozen north.
Two days to late I already picked my scapes and broke everyone of them off. Next year ill know. I thought they had a relly complex interesting flavore so I wanted to develop it more rough chopped them and cabbage salt lacto fermented sauerkraut had anough for two jars added some gotchujang flakes for a spicy kimchi sort of version on the second jar
When I read the title, garlic is not what I thought of.
What does AvE use to flow water into his garden?
a 'Taaaapeee tap tap'... 😏
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U should plant some cucamelons! They look like a grape sized watermelon but taste like a cucumber with a hint of lime or something. Been growing them a couple years now and they are my new favorite garden treat 👍
Thanks! I'll add them to my Christmas list for next year.
This I have to try !
Everything I try to grow does not always turn out the way I wish it might but I will try .
@@HesTNTonPMS super easy to grow and they literally produce hundreds of the little fruits or whatever you would call them. They vine so put up a cattle panel or something for them to climb and they do great. I’d never heard of them till a couple years ago, just happened to see them at the nursery as I was getting other veggies for the garden.
Garlic scape and sun flower seed pesto is incredible. Can't wait till scape season!
I've never seen that trick. I did two full beds of garlic this year, well planted last year. I ended up with them in the ground a little early, it didn't frost f or something like a month after I planted. Not ideal, they started growing before it got cold. But most of them made it. I only got a few scapes though and the rest just started falling over like they were ready to harvest. Oh well, didn't get huge bulbs but I have enough garlic to last me a long while anyway. I'll try your trick next year with the scapes.
Never seen that scape trick before, I’ll try it tomorrow Quebec.
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*Learn a utilitarian trade
*Grow a garden
*Get Married
*Have Kids
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I can get wild garlic by the sack load, smells so good when I'm out by the river trying to snag a fish or three. I don't do all that carp farmed garbage. I do know a guy who never has to buy veg from the usual scumbags, got his own plot etc very nice guy and green fingered af!! if your having problems let me know and I'll ask him what he do. He doesn't like computers so I'm kinda the middle hand....looking good so far though. Have yourself and family a great day.
With food like that, the children will get their own scholarships .
well thanks for the tip on the "pinch" method... my Baby Doll just picks the tops off.. but here's a tip for you! She grinds all her scapes in a blender with a bit of olive oil, parsley and touch of salt. Take the resulting mush and load'em up into icecube trays. Freeze them cock stiff and use them as a seasoning addition all year long for soups and sauces.. you're welcome! and thanks for all your education and entertainment. This time the wife learned something! lol
When I was living next to my landlady before I bought my own place, she would give us Garlic Scapes every summer. Very good in Chow Mein. They also sell them at T&T, for those of you who don't live inland.
The thought that you don't have enough room to grow your own stuff just astounds me. Zucchinis and tomatoes in particular. They'll grow just about anywhere. Low maintenance demand keeping pests out. And patience. Boom. Saved a couple bucks this week. Tastes better. More healthy. Nothin special. Toss some seeds along the sunny side of the shed. Come back later. 'Nuff said.
Maybe some day I'll live on some land, in my million dollar condo I don't even have room for a vice to keep my Richard in lol.
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