A head of garlic, like tulips or daffodils, is a bulb you can plant in the fall that will pay dividends in spring.

If you’ve ever seen long green, slightly curly tubular plants in a bundle at the farmers’ market that smell slightly like garlic, you’ve likely seen a garlic scape. They can sometimes even look like ...

Attention, garlic lovers: It’s time to think outside the bulb. Make that above the bulb. Garlic scapes, the long, curly edible green shoots that emerge above ground while garlic heads ripen below, are ...

If you planted garlic bulbs last fall, chances are they are beginning to produce flower stalks, also called scapes. By removing these stems when they begin to curl, a process known as topping, you’ll ...