Garlic Disaster!

[rana]

I feel a fingering coming on

[Snadger]

Possibly rana - we certainly get alot of it up here. I had to harvest as the rain we had last week caused them all to fall over and I didn't want them rotting.

I fingered mine about April time, but unlike onions the cloves are a bit deeper.

I am harvesting my final moon garlics this weekend, and one I can see already is huge. Once the non-moon ones are out [first week of july], I will put the differences in sizes, but every moon clove bar one so far has been significantly bigger than the non-moon ones.....by a long shot. I really want them all up now as they are SO rusty, but a trial is a trial and so they stay until the very last day.

Do you think the rust will affect the cloves? Apart from slowing down growth, naturally!

[Florence Fennel]

Ok I give in, I've searched the threads but can't find it. What's fingering if you don't mind me asking? Have I missed a trick? My garlic is still very green (a bit how I feel) and upstanding.

[zazen999]

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ons_18972.html

I blame Mrs Dobby for this one [it works really well with onions]...


Snadger - I have no idea about the rust - they are really covered in it but I'm not pulling them until the trial is up.

[Mrs Twigg]

would be really intersted in seeing the results of the moon trial and the garlic.....I find this all really interesting, do you really think it makes a big difference overall?

[zazen999]

would be really intersted in seeing the results of the moon trial and the garlic.....I find this all really interesting, do you really think it makes a big difference overall?

in 2 weeks you can see my final results. They are all on my blog if you want to have a look but the biggest ones are due out of the ground in the next 2 weeks.

[Florence Fennel]

Cheers Zazen I have now added this to my vocabulary and will be trying it today!

[zazen999]

Cheers Zazen I have now added this to my vocabulary and will be trying it today!

Most excellent news.

xxx

[dirtyknees]

hi hanna,i pulled oner of mine up last week ,it hadnt bulbed up,but i found this little pupa in it ,(the same as what has taken all my onions,incl my over winters).if you still have the bulb it might be worth peeling it and taking a look,god forbid you dont get the little blighter thats attacked mine,,,not one onion out of approx 300,,,,,gutted