Yellowing garlic leaves

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prikay

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Yellowing garlic leaves
« on: May 13, 2012, 20:39 »
The tips of my garlic plants are starting to yellow, anyone know why this might be ?

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Re: Yellowing garlic leaves
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2012, 21:55 »
Often a nitrogen deficiency.  Bung some chicken pellets around them.
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Re: Yellowing garlic leaves
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2012, 21:56 »
The tips on ours have been yellow for a couple of months now, all the new growth now it is warming up and staying damp is nice and green though. I think if there is a lock up of nitrogen  in the soil for whatever reason the leaves yellow slightly. Somebody else will know more about that than me but i think if you give them a feed of chicken manure pellets or similar they will be fine.

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Re: Yellowing garlic leaves
« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2012, 21:43 »
Thanks both, will a feed of worm liquid be OK and do the same job or has to got be chicken manure pellets?

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Re: Yellowing garlic leaves
« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2012, 08:14 »
Worm feed would be fine -- they just need a nitrogen boost, probably because the heavy rain has washed a lot of nutrients down deeper.
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Re: Yellowing garlic leaves
« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2012, 09:03 »
Mine are the same but I put manure powder round mine (fibrous stuff)  :)

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Re: Yellowing garlic leaves
« Reply #6 on: May 16, 2012, 21:38 »
Thanks worm liquid it is as my wormery produces a lot of this and no worm compost, but thats another question


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