Garlic leaves are going rusty looking......

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kiwinicks

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Garlic leaves are going rusty looking......
« on: June 29, 2011, 22:05 »
Over the past week or so the leaves on my garlic plants have gone rusty looking, is this normal?

I pulled one of the bulbs and they look good but im not sure if i should lift them all up or still leave them in the ground?


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Re: Garlic leaves are going rusty looking......
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2011, 22:11 »
Leave them. Rust on leaves does not affect the storage properties.

If you do a forum search on "Garlic Rust", you'll find a few previous threads.
Did it really tell you to do THAT on the packet?

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Re: Garlic leaves are going rusty looking......
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2011, 22:27 »
Rust will not harm their keeping qualiteis, think about harvesting them when around a third or so of their leaves have died and gone brown.
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Re: Garlic leaves are going rusty looking......
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2011, 08:03 »
Pleased to see this thread I was about to ask the same question. Can this also spread to freesias? My pots of freesias seem to have a similar problem.

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Re: Garlic leaves are going rusty looking......
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2011, 10:41 »
No, it's allium specific. Your freesias have a different problem - but I have no idea what it is!


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