Garlic Scape Pesto Recipe

Tis the season for boat loads of garlic scapes. I absolutely love this amazing little bonus crop you get when you plant hardneck garlic. To be honest, one of the reasons why we plant so much garlic, is to take advantage of all of the scapes.

If you are not familiar with scapes, then get familiar, because you are going to love them. Garlic scapes are the flowering stem of the hardneck garlic variety. In Ontario they pop up right around now (end of June) and you want to harvest them before the plant starts to flower. This sends all of the energy back into the bulb which is exactly what we want.

For each clove of garlic you plant, it will produce one scape and one bulb of garlic. The only downside to planting garlic is how long this crop takes up real estate in your garden. Planting in the fall before the ground freezes, you will not yield any garlic until well into August. To learn about harvesting, curing and storing garlic, check out this post here.

This recipe will make about 1-1/2 cups of pesto. You can easily double or triple this for large batches that you can freeze for future use.

If you like video instruction, you can find that right here.

Enjoy!

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