How do you react when you spot a Scape on your Alliums?
Do you:-
1. Cut them off
2. Pull up the allium
3. Ignore them
4. Eat them.
5. Something else?
Flower stalks, FEW.
If on leeks or onions I just pull them up as they will never be much good once seeded. If on garlic, I usually add them to a stir fry. I do leave a couple of my best leeks to seed, and hopefully give me some grass leeks.
I eat them . But I slice them lengthwise and pull out the centre/ scapes . As that bit is very hard and unpleasant. But the rest of it I use as normal.
All of the above except no. 5.
It depends how many I've got and what's for dinner as to whether they get eaten. My red onions bolted for Britain last year so gave those a miss this year. Chopped the buds off mostly and let the bulb grow on and eat them first. Garlic scapes get used in the kitchen, then inevitably there's the odd one that gets missed and flowered. I found a bucket of old small soft onions from last year that were shooting so used the shoots in the kitchen.
Next question - for those who eat the Scapes. Do you eat Scapes of..............
1. Garlic
2. Elephant Garlic
3. Onions
4. Spring onions
5 Leeks
6. Anything else!
I eat garlic scapes but this year have only grown elephant garlic...........so not sure whether I will eat these or not as they will be a similar size to leeks and onion scapes and maybe a bit 'woody'?
Whatever is growing and is tender enough. Scapes in my garden are never intentional. Would chive flower buds be called scapes, if not why not? And why are they called scapes not buds?
Good questions, JJB. It seems that a Scape is the stem rather than the Bud - maybe??
https://corbinhill-foodproject.org/newsl...-with-them
Why am I asking these questions?
I've heard about people eating Garlic scapes and recently Elephant garlic scapes but not Leek Scapes (which are also edible).
To me, a scape has been a sign of bolting and that the plant, whatever it is, will become inedible and tough. Maybe I need to be a bit more adventurous and eat more scapes.