Garlic crop rotting away!

[Martin H]

Rust on alliums isn't the end of the world. It slows the plants down a bit, reducing the yield, but it doesn't kill them. Keep the plants watered and fed so that they can fight the illnes as well as possible. Enhoy your holiday, lmayhow!

[Mr Bones]

I've given up growing Garlic, Onions and Leeks because of whiterot.

Wandering slightly off topic, I'm growing Golden Bear onions from seed this year because they're said to be resistant to white rot.

[MarkPelican]

Wandering even further off topic, "resistance" doesn't mean "immune". I grew Crimson Crush tomatoes at my allotment last year (and the year before) because they're "resistant" to blight. Not on my allotment. They all failed. The plants didn't die of blight but the fruit were all infected.

[Snadger]

Wandering slightly off topic, I'm growing Golden Bear onions from seed this year because they're said to be resistant to white rot.

I tried them one year and was impressed,

[Cadalot]

Just found that my over wintered onions have been hit by white rot. I have harvested a bed and have had to bin about 30% the rest are drying in my extension to the shed.



I was hoping that I was not going to have a problem on the new allotment, it appears that most people on the plot today are also having a problem with white rot, usually they get away with it on this site so what has changed?

[Mr Bones]

it appears that most people on the plot today are also having a problem with white rot, usually they get away with it on this site so what has changed?

I wonder that too. Most gardening books say white rot is uncommon, not in my neck of the woods it isn't nor on my daughters plot on the other side of town.

Pity about your onions Cads, I know how you must be feeling but for me that would be a decent result.

[Jay-ell]

just reading through this one on onion white rot

https://horticulture.ahdb.org.uk/oni...ting-white-rot

edit : a couple more

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...%20rot&f=false

https://link.springer.com/article/10...658-004-1420-0

[Penellype]

Just found that my over wintered onions have been hit by white rot. I have harvested a bed and have had to bin about 30% the rest are drying in my extension to the shed.

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I was hoping that I was not going to have a problem on the new allotment, it appears that most people on the plot today are also having a problem with white rot, usually they get away with it on this site so what has changed?

The most obvious answer to what has changed is that someone has brought the disease into the plot, either on infected plants or on their boots. Once there it will spread.

[Dalrimple]

can it be spread from onion sets and garlic cloves?
atb Dal

[Dalrimple]

can it be spread from onion sets and garlic cloves? my garlic was looking a bit yellow yesterday i'll have to check em out when I go up the lottie tomorrow
atb Dal

[Jay-ell]

If you plant an infected set or garlic clove then the fungus will spread. It doesn't spread through spore but produces fruiting bodies under ground the name of which eludes me but even if I remembered I couldn't spell it anyway (starts with an S)

These fruiting bodies can be carried from bed to bed on shoes, tools, hands, bits of mud, etc and can remain dormant for at least 15 years until awakened by chemicals given off by alliums.

Once awakened they send out their threads which when it finds an allium infects it and the cycle starts again.