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Transcript: A quick little tip as you’re harvesting scapes this season. So let’s talk about them. Scapes only form on the hard neck varieties, not in the softneck. And in fact, since they don’t have a hard neck, that’s why the soft next varieties can be braided beautifully. And in fact, the scape is the hard neck, the hard neck forms at the very base, it’s actually in the center of that bulb that you’ll ultimately harvest, but then it extends all the way up through and then becomes this reproductive kind of flowering part, even though it’s not technically a true flower. They’re just creating the vegetative propagules called bulbils.
But you can actually, that stem, the scape, is going through the entire array of all of these plants. So you can just snap it, where they’re emerging. You’ll get s scape about this size, but you can also pull it up, it takes a little more energy, there’s a little more resistance, but when you do, you’re going to have a scape that looks like this, as opposed to this. Yes. Especially if you are eating them, especially if you’re making pickled scapes, look how many more pickles you get from this compared to this. So by all means, do what you will. Enjoy your scapes. That’s my one and only real goal. But just to let you know if you do pull rather than snap, you’re going to get that much more of a glorious scape, my friends.
