"AAaron123" <aaaron123@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>Don't know where the seeds come from or how these plants get started.
>No one near us also plants garlic.
>
>So we have these garlic's growing that we do not need and I had heard
that
>the greens can be cut up and cooked with eggs.
First, garlic usually doesn't grow from seeds*. But the little bulbils on
top of the scape sure do. If you manage to find them all, you're a better
gardener than I! And I always manage to miss a few bulbs at harvest, or
leave a broken off clove about, so there are always a few garlic plants
where last year's grew.
But to get round to your question, garlic greens are just fine in
stir-frys, chopped up in eggs, or whatever suits your fancy. I know a
commercial grower who has a nice secondary marked in garlic greens... he
just throws the leftover cloves that were too small to plant willy-nilly
in
a bed to produce greens, usually several cuttings before they run out of
energy. A nearby Asian market is happy to get them!
Those scapes make nice pesto; I freeze a bunch in plastic ice cube trays,
then bag the frozen cubes for future use.
Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at
home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G
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