[Auntiemogs]

Hi gang!  I went to have a furtle around my garlic earlier and was absolutely gutted when I got to my Music. No roots, and the centre is just brown mush.    The outside looks basically sound and healthy, but it's like it just stopped growing and rotted.  I can't see any evidence of fungus at all.  Please tell me it drowned and it's not the dreaded lurgy?

The Early Purple Wight (about 12" away) is absolutely fine, and really starting to fill out.  They're growing in one of my raised beds and I've had no problems before...

If it is white rot, should I pull all my garlic and onions (next to garlic) now?

Mogs

[mumofstig]

Are the black dots just soil - or more ominously the sclerotia (fungus 'seeds')?

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[Auntiemogs]

Just soil Mum.  Apart from the fact that they haven't filled out at all (from a few weeks back), they look fine from the outside.  It was only when I did my furtle that I realised that they had no roots and they just came out.  Leaves are still green but I know that's no guarantee that they're rot free...

[Aunt Sally]

Doesn't look like white rot to me.  They look very wet and mushy.

[Snoop]

How do the onions next to them look? Have you lifted any to have a check?

[Auntiemogs]

Doesn't look like white rot to me.  They look very wet and mushy.

Thank you Auntie, I've never seen it before so fingers crossed it's not.  I shall have to improve drainage at the edges of the bed I think, maybe too much run off from next door's garden (on a slight slope)?

How do the onions next to them look? Have you lifted any to have a check?

They all look fine Snoop, although maybe I'll plant them a little deeper next year, as they seem to be more resting on the surface with just the roots in the soil now...

[Tracybutton]

I'm just a learner so a bit shy of giving my opinion, but I think they have been left in the ground too long as the leaves are completely brown and dried up. Aren't garlic supposed to be harvested with about a forty percent brown leaf ?
I'll wait for someone to tell me I'm talking 'rot' 

[fatcat1955]

I think a lot of garlic will end up like this due to the ground being so wet for a prolonged spell.