When you grow garlic, there is always the question of what to do with the scapes (the curly-Q flower stalks on hardneck garlic varieties). They need to be removed to concentrate the plant's energy on forming the underground bulb. Problem is, they all need to be removed at the roughly the same time, and if you grow more than a few heads of garlic (we have 250) that's a whole lot of scapes to make sense of in a very short period.