Has garlic scape gotten cheaper? Check out the garlic scape prices where you are.

Location Wuhan: yesterday I went to the supermarket and garlic scapes were 2.5 yuan per jin! You read that right, not 0.5 but a solid 2.5. Are you farmer friends envious of this price? But back home (Kaifeng, Henan), the garlic scape price is truly grim, 0.5 yuan per jin, and at times even 3 yuan per jin. The worst part is that because farmers planted a severely excessive area of garlic, the garlic farmers do not even have time to harvest it; most garlic farmers choose to simply pull the garlic scapes and then just toss them in the fields or ditches.

Do not think the above is an exaggeration; this is truly a real portrait of garlic back home. My own family planted 9 mu of garlic this year as well. Likewise, garlic scapes are thrown all over the ground. Because the garlic scapes grow in several rounds, there is simply no time to harvest them, and if they are not picked, it seriously affects the later bulbing of the garlic. So within the limited time during which garlic bolts, wanting to finish picking them all is really unrealistic, after all, there is not much labor at home.

And for rural growers, if they choose to hire helpers, the income from harvesting garlic scapes is not even enough to cover the workers' wages. Clearly, with garlic so sluggish this year, few people are still willing to hire workers to help harvest garlic scapes.

For this year's garlic and garlic scapes, there is basically no point in hoping. Yesterday I also made some remarks on the garlic market situation; the article already clearly pointed out that this year garlic is severely, severely oversupplied, but garlic is hardly the only thing in oversupply. Although garlic scapes, as a vegetable, have relatively larger consumption, the volume still appears very small. For the limited demand in the market, how can such a large amount of garlic this year possibly be sold?

Here, Science Thriving Agriculture offers a small suggestion: why not stockpile the garlic scapes and make pickled wine-fermented garlic scapes. In past years, when the garlic scapes picked each year could not be sold, mother would stockpile the surplus garlic scapes and pickle them; after fermentation was complete, it really was a rare delicacy, not only adding a dish to the table, but also allowing the surplus pickled garlic scapes to be sold. For rural friends with a head for business, why not pickle the garlic scapes bought cheaply this year and then sell them at a high price when the opportunity arises? This could be said to be a rare business opportunity.

The above is a little perspective shared with you by Science Thriving Agriculture; I hope it is helpful to you.