Help! Garlic leaves going yellow

[King Carrot]

Just noticed today that the tips of my garlic are going yellow. This garlic is from last year's that I did not dig up in time before it sort of split and disappeared. If I go and dig the roots tomorrow and find no white mold on them, can I use dried blood for Nitrogen? Otherwise, I'll make my OH feel useful.

Also, they might be too deep in the soil. I have no idea where as I dug and dug and found little to nothing last year.

Actually, I suspect I might have had onion white rot in a section of the allium patch when it got hot. Some of the stored shallots are disintegrating with some black, round mold. If this is the case, then I am going to have bad luck in the allium section this year because I have already planted a lot of onions.

I have read that one can use garlic spray to trick the fungus into reproducing when there are no alliums planted in the Summer thus killing it.

I have also just read that one can use corn meal as a natural fungicide. A university found that some crop had less of a problem with fungal diseases when it followed a crop of corn. Apparently, it attracts some good fungus that kills the bad ones. Anyone here tried that?

Of course, I think it is still probably too cool outside for white onion rot to be a problem, so I might have both problems.

That's interesting as I use maize meal as part of my fertilizer mix - it's a good slow release general fertilizer, just thinking back to last year the first year I tried this mix , my white rot losses wern't as bad as usual but I did plant my onions and shallots on a 1 foot high ridge to increase airflow after a terrible year on the flat the year before.

[Maddie106]

Look this thread is definately going down the pan What about my garlic??

I think your garlic might just be suffering because of the late spring.
Chill out and perhaps throw some chicken manure pellets or some grow- more near to it?

I planted mine out in October and it's now looking ok.( Nothing 3 weeks ago!)
Noticed some bulbs that I'd missed harvesting last year that were sprouting last week, so I've planted them out too.

Stop worrying about it.....on my experience it's an easy crop!

[taff]

Mine looked like that last year, they were great when they came up, large, juicy, pongy and tasty. Don't worry

[marigold007]

So, I dug up that garlic and found 30 plants. Some were more than 4 inches below the surface! I replanted in a slightly raised bed with lots of compost and bonemeal dug in. Admittedly, it was quite wet where they were too. I'll be getting a bag of maize meal (polenta or something - :-) ) soon to sprinkle on them. The roots looked fine.

[threepeas]

My garlic has gone like that if i dig one of them up and it is ok, can i replant it and will it be ok. if i put some bfb around it?

Sorry if it sound silly i am new to this and it is the first time i have grow garlic.

[drawocssor]

GArlic BRought me here!

Hi all,

Am new to the site, it was a search for the perfect garlic that brought me to your thread and resulted in me joining.

Had the same happen to my garlic. Some looking around pointed me to
here!
Good info on garlic, seems it might be a little intolerant of too much nitrogen and the yellow could be attributed to a little too much. Also found out that both phosphorous and potassium (potash being the most important) being in relatively high need to, Might be worth trying fertilising with a low N and high P K fertiliser. Try combining a mix of sulphate of potash, bone meal and sea weed (incase there is any trace mineral need).

I plan to give the above ago next week end so I will remember to post how it went.

[binley100]

Flippin'eck talk about worried parents .....*goes off to sprinkle chicken poo pellets just in case.

[Liza]

If its the outer leaves going brown, it maybe that they are dying off to produce the papery outside of the bulb.They form the outer layer of the bulb and the inner leaves are producing the new bulbs ?

Just a thought

[Nykied]

Look this thread is definately going down the pan

Nothing like a bit of toilet humour

[maypril]

No chicken pellets or nettles, is there anything else I could use?

Ammonium sulphate. You can get a big box for under a fiver and it lasts an age. It adds nitrogen to the soild and decreases acidity.

[evie451]

I used to just bung in a few cloves of supermarket Garlic and leave the bulbs to it.........i got lovely strong garlic with although the cloves were not as big as the usual bought bulbs.................

Then when i start to get all scientific about it and plant the proper thing the Marco something or other from the garden centre the leaves go yellow!

So i merely wish to report the wonderful news that yes Man wee (diluted 50%) does work on this problem in my garden as now the garlic leaves are lovely and green after i got DH to do for me in a watering can.....

Although i have been informed no one in the house will want to eat anything that i have used the garlic in or the potatoes or the strawberries as apparently the kids didnt know what the word manure meant either...

[buzzingtalk]

Bumping the thread for second spring running

But I have noticed the same problem in my pot grown garlic. The only solution I have to this is lady wee so will try it tomorrow (oh the shame! thankfully pots are outside the house so can do the deed indoors) but how much do you use? I only have 5 small pots of garlic and don't want to over do it...

[Croila]

I'm growing garlic in both pots and the ground ("Music" variety) which I planted at the beginning of November. The leaves look very strong and vigorous apart from the fact it's all going a bit yellow at the ends. The ones in pots are a slightly worse. I haven't fed them at all ... I guess I should be putting liquid seaweed on them now? I've got a box of chicken pellets too but I thought they might be a bit strong for the pots?

My poor onions ("Troy" and "Radar" - "Troy" is photographed below) have also overwintered in pots and are starting to look pretty sorry for themselves with the yellowed ends of the leaves starting to frizzle up. I had a feel of one or two of the bulbs and one of them was just a soggy mess. The "Troy" variety is worse than "Radar" incidentally, yet I've treated them both exactly the same.

I'm wondering if I've overwatered them and maybe liquid seaweed would revive them? Here's a wee photo ... Dunno if this is normal because I've never grown them before at all:


Any advice very gratefully appreciated, please! After them surviving the winter, I'd hate to waste all the effort put in so far.

[Pies]

Warning excess nitrogen can bring on rust in garlic

[Poddington Pea]

Did I miss something? Why does it have to be female urine?