Unlike true seeds, most people plant garlic cloves ... If you intend to braid your garlic, leave the stem on and braid away.

If you’ve planted hardneck garlic, it produces tall, curling stems about a month before you can harvest the bulbs. Cut the scape just as it begins to curl. Removing the scape allows larger heads to ...

Garlic scapes – also called garlic shoots – are the long, thin, sturdy stems that grow out of the garlic bulb. Many vendors trim off the elongated flower bud at the tip of the scape ...