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Bring on the Garlic Scapes!

Posted on May 24, 2012 by garlic

Every garlic bulb wants to grow up to become a luscious green garlic plant. Thus it sends up beautiful, spiraling shoots as it grows. These are garlic scapes. They grow from hard-neck varieties of garlic. Farmers harvest them, thus focusing … Continue reading →

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Early Spring in Vermont: The Garlic is doing fine!

Posted on March 23, 2012 by garlic

The unseasonably warm spring weather is breaking records here in Vermont and causing speculation about the 2012 growing season. Trees are budding earlier, migratory birds have returned ahead of schedule, and peepers are singing. Vermont’s maple sugaring season has come … Continue reading →

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