home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   rec.gardens.edible      Edible gardening topics      40,489 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 40,312 of 40,489   
   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)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca