These are scapes that came from two kinds of Korean garlic, Korean Red and Pyong Vang (I think this is just an alternative spelling of Pyongyang, the capitol of North Korea). Sorry they are a bit crumpled, I stuffed them in a bag with other scapes, and wasn’t very careful with them. Notice they are mostly topset pod and not much stem, unlike normal scapes that are mostly stem.
I was at the garden yesterday, and I was very surprised to find even more scapes had formed, almost as many as the previous visit!
My garlic is finally showing some signs of rust, with about half the plants having a few small specks on them. It’s not too serious I hope, and I’m still expecting to have a mostly normal harvest this year.
Well, they are interesting! Did you eat them?
I hope your garlic will be OK…
I did eat them. The taste isn’t anything special. While you can eat both the pod and the stem, I think the stem has a nicer texture. So for me having more pod than stem isn’t an advantage.
Some year I’ll leave the scape on the plant, and see if the bubils it forms are different from ordinary garlic. I wonder if it forms more bubils than usual.