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Old 03-06-2003, 11:56 PM
Gary Woods
 
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Pat Meadows wrote:

What *is* a scape?


It's a "flower" stalk that hardneck garlic puts up. Not true flowers, but
little bulbils form on the top, which can be planted to grow garlic, though
it takes an extra year or more.

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