Hello Robert, I believe you mis-understood. I did not say.. softneck garlic have scapes... I said that softnecks and small hardneck porcelain garlic have pretty well an equally long shelf life. And to watch for the scapes, as after you scape cut... it takes as a general rule 21 days from the cutting to harvest. Again, keep in mind that every garlic type (Rocamboles, Purple Stripes, Marble Purple Stripes, Creoles, Turbans, Asiatics etc.) are harvested at different times because their scapes come up at different times making their harvesting also at different times. Softnecks are the first ones as well as Turbans and Elephant. Another thing to keep in mind too is that Turbans, sometimes have scapes and other times they don't... they are a hollow scape when they do... that is why you have a hole on the dried stem. If left a little longer in length you can see at the cut of the dried bulb stem if they have one. You will notice that softnecks have no stem, just leaves that are either braided or bulbs that are individual with no stem. You see them as the popular garlic in stores from China. Hope I have clarified things...
Soft neck garlics have Scapes???? I thought only hardneck garlics had scapes.
Hello Robert, I believe you mis-understood. I did not say.. softneck garlic have scapes... I said that softnecks and small hardneck porcelain garlic have pretty well an equally long shelf life. And to watch for the scapes, as after you scape cut... it takes as a general rule 21 days from the cutting to harvest. Again, keep in mind that every garlic type (Rocamboles, Purple Stripes, Marble Purple Stripes, Creoles, Turbans, Asiatics etc.) are harvested at different times because their scapes come up at different times making their harvesting also at different times. Softnecks are the first ones as well as Turbans and Elephant. Another thing to keep in mind too is that Turbans, sometimes have scapes and other times they don't... they are a hollow scape when they do... that is why you have a hole on the dried stem. If left a little longer in length you can see at the cut of the dried bulb stem if they have one. You will notice that softnecks have no stem, just leaves that are either braided or bulbs that are individual with no stem. You see them as the popular garlic in stores from China. Hope I have clarified things...