Garlic yellowing due to rain?

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Mum2mj

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Garlic yellowing due to rain?
« on: February 24, 2014, 17:33 »
Hi, it's been quite mild & wet here. I planted my garlic in october/November, popped along the other day& noticed most of the tops are yellowing. Is this due to the amount of rain? I'm lucky that the plot isn't waterlogged & I can work the soil so the drainage is pretty good. Also I was wondering whether to give them a feed as the weather is so mild? I didn't have time to do much to the soil before I planted as only got the plot in October.
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Re: Garlic yellowing due to rain?
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2014, 19:14 »
Mine are yellowing at the tips too. But still growing. Nearly a foot tall now. And yes I have been feeding mine. I am really pleased with how they are progressing and despite the yellow tips, they look happy.

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Re: Garlic yellowing due to rain?
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2014, 19:45 »
Quite normal for over wintered garlic. A nice feed will bring them on.

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Re: Garlic yellowing due to rain?
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2014, 19:53 »
Mine are the same too.

I will give it a few weeks and give them some BFB unless someone can recommend something better.

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Re: Garlic yellowing due to rain?
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2014, 09:10 »
as BFB is a slow release, it might be better to perhaps put it down now so that come spring proper, some of the nutrients will be available when the plants really get going.  I find a little extra potash good for garlic and onions - I read somewhere it helps to bulk them up, but more importantly, helps to keep fungal / rust problems at bay (after such a mild wet winter, rust is most likely going to be a problem this year I think)  See growing instructions from The Garlic Farm (they should know their business  ;))

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Re: Garlic yellowing due to rain?
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2014, 11:56 »
Great I'll do that this week, thanks for the advice everyone  :D

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Re: Garlic yellowing due to rain?
« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2014, 19:49 »
Sulphate of potash does seem to help them ward off rust, which has got to be helpful  :D :D
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Re: Garlic yellowing due to rain?
« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2014, 20:24 »
Mine were doing the same so I gave them some BFB as well - can't beat a bit of BFB  :)

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Re: Garlic yellowing due to rain?
« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2014, 08:11 »
Gave mine some sulphate of potash and what I noticed is that a good few worms came up, they really did not like it.

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Re: Garlic yellowing due to rain?
« Reply #9 on: February 26, 2014, 09:34 »
Gave mine some sulphate of potash and what I noticed is that a good few worms came up, they really did not like it.

that makes sense - the sulphate would acidify the soil (which is what keeps fungal problems at bay) and apparently worms do not like a drop in pH.  Going off topic a bit but I found this article about earthworms and soil fertility interesting

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Re: Garlic yellowing due to rain?
« Reply #10 on: February 26, 2014, 15:56 »
I don't really like using man made fertilisers. Do you think some comfrey feed would do the same thing?



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