400597 Fri May 11 08:28:30 -0700 2007 14 12 Boston Area 0 2561311 Has anyone sourced or seen green garlic at local markets? Fri May 11 08:28:31 -0700 2007 58385 ellbell 1 2561493 Haven't seen any in the stores but the farmers markets will have it, I guess that's still a few weeks off. Fri May 11 09:25:51 -0700 2007 2561311 18264 steinpilz 1 2561835 I fear that the farmers markets will start after the green garlic is gone. I consider this one of the great joys of spring and find it all too rarely. Fri May 11 10:56:16 -0700 2007 2561311 29123 LauraBear 2 2561869 Yeah, I've seen garlic scapes at the farmer's markets (should be starting up in about a month), but never seen green garlic at all. Fri May 11 11:03:13 -0700 2007 2561835 18512 Allstonian 3 2561897 Now you two have me confused - are green garlic are garlic scapes different, which is the stuff that looks like green onions, with triangular leaves and flower buds and a tough core? This is what I've seen at the farmers markets here. Fri May 11 11:09:01 -0700 2007 2561869 18264 steinpilz 4 2561928 I mean heads of garlic, just like what you usually buy dried, but fresh - ie just dug from the ground. I have found it twice, both times up in Vermont. I guess it rots or spoils, so most growers just immediately start drying the heads rather than selling them green. Fri May 11 11:14:58 -0700 2007 2561897 29123 LauraBear 4 2561957 Well, I went and googled because when I first saw this thread I thought the OP was looking for garlic scapes, which are those long curly things - they're the flower stems of hardneck garlic, apparently - and I found out that there are two different things. Green garlic is immature garlic plants, leaves and a white or purple bottom and rootlets and all, which look like green onions/scallions. As I said above, I've seen (and bought) scapes at the farmer's markets, but never noticed green garlic. Fri May 11 11:23:19 -0700 2007 2561897 18512 Allstonian 5 2562099 Green garlic is up now, but farmers markets aren't. Scapes will be along pretty soon. Full-grown fresh-dug bulbs won't be ready around here until July. I don't think there's any reason the latter can't be shipped from elsewhere, maybe there isn't a demand. Fri May 11 11:52:13 -0700 2007 2561957 10400 Aromatherapy 5 2562125 What I'd seen has the green flower tops and the white garlic bulbs (looked like large green onions) - maybe garlic that's older than 'green garlic'? Fri May 11 11:56:53 -0700 2007 2561957 18264 steinpilz 6 2562132 Bulbs? Sounds like they pulled up the whole immature bulb together with the scape. Which would be a stage past "green garlic". Fri May 11 11:58:48 -0700 2007 2562125 10400 Aromatherapy 7 2563398 I have a report from a coworker that green garlic was spotted today in Haymarket, not sure how reliable but worth a try? Fri May 11 19:04:47 -0700 2007 2562132 81244 trotliner 1 2563405 I saw some unlabeled at WF Framingham last week....near the ginger. Fri May 11 19:07:39 -0700 2007 2561311 18196 tomaneng 1 2647166 green garlic - looking like large scallions - at the Charles Sq farmer's market today. Lots of great looking lettuces, some rhubarb and some chard and herbs. Not much else... Sun Jun 10 15:34:47 -0700 2007 2561311 29123 LauraBear 1 2647429 I bought some this week from Sienna Farm at the Copley market. Farmer Chris and Co. have moved to the new area on the Boylston St. side of the Square. I even took some photos of it and one is below. {edit}Photo didn't show up I'll try adding a photo alone in the next post Sun Jun 10 17:36:51 -0700 2007 2561311 21331 BostonZest 2 2647436 photo try #2 Sun Jun 10 17:41:34 -0700 2007 2647429 21331 BostonZest