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|    Wilson to Dan Purgert    |
|    Re: garlic scapes    |
|    17 Jun 24 08:44:48    |
      From: nowhere@nearyou.com              On 6/17/2024 4:45 AM, Dan Purgert wrote:       > On 2024-06-11, T wrote:       >> Hi All,       >>       >> My garlic has started to scape. I cut them off.       >>       >> Does scaping tell me anything about when to harvest?       >       > No, not that I'm aware. As I understand it (poorly ;) ), the "tell" is       > similar to onions -- the formerly strong stem starts flopping over as       > the plant pulls water (etc.) back into the bulb.       >       >       In Maine, we grow Rocambole, hard-neck garlic. The bulletin attached says       "When the lower three leaves have turned brown, you have about two weeks to       harvest your garlic."       https://extension.umaine.edu/publications/2063e/#harvest              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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