Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: dmg on July 06, 2013, 00:06
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A few of my garlic on the outer edges have been yellowing and leaves dying back- I was hoping they where ready to pick but they where covered in white rot. Am I better picking the rest of the crop ( about 40 plants) just now and hope for the best OR leave them a bit longer to clove up fully (the dying ones look as if they JUST started to clove).
If I should pick them now what is the storage potential from an un cloved bulb?
My winter red onions that I have lifted where only a few feet away and I probably lost 15-20% to rot
This is only my second season and the plot is on rotation from last year should I just do them in pots next year?
Thanks
Dmg
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White rot spreads very fast and if it was my crop, I'd pick what I could now, handle with care so you don't pass any spores to healthy garlic, and bin all leaves so you don't propagate it.
Sadly, once the rot hits, it takes a minimum of 5 years to die off provided you don't grow any alliums on the soil, so pots would be a good idea and use fresh potting mix from the shops.
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Make sure you clean everything that has come in contact with the infected soil so as not to spread it to other area's of your plot or your neighbour's.
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I've lifted the garlic and lost 2/3rds of the crop. Can I use the healthy ones for planting next year of is it best to start with fresh bulbs? I'm glad I put my elephant garlic in pots to start with.
Dmg
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I'd start with new, and hope where you put them hasn't got white rot - I have it in all the beds on my plot now :(