Comments on: Garlic June 2008

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:22:40 +0000

Hello MG,

I can try to help. The first picture is of a scape, the top part of the plant. It would help if you have the bottom of the plant too.

If you have the whole plant, I suggest bringing it home and planting it in the ground there. Is this possible?

By: Monsters Group

Monsters Group — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:22:11 +0000

We live by this creek and while we were exploring, we found cloves of garlic; like the first picture. we opened one and it definatly was garlic. we can use some tips on how to care for it. think you could help? thanks. Could you maybe make it in teenage language?
Also, we have many questions about it, so please repond asap.
-Monsters Group

By: Milk and Rust | Bifurcated Carrots

Milk and Rust | Bifurcated Carrots — Sun, 24 May 2009 17:51:25 +0000

[...] rust is very much on my mind at the moment. Last year around this time it appeared on my garlic, and it just appeared on Gintoino’s garlic in [...]

By: vicky

vicky — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:19:54 +0000

Hi. Just found this site with a google for garlic rust, having just noticed my entire crop has turned orange in the last couple of days. :-<
Add to that all of my onions which went to seed last month, I’m not having a very alliumy year this year …

By: Lynn

Lynn — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:50:31 +0000

Thanks for the information on scapes (I googled and got your 2006 post on them). This is my first year for garlic, but no scapes have appeared yet in central NY. I think we’ll eat some and let some others grow to see the difference. I will look for rust!

By: Hvidløgsrust « Skrubtudsens have

Hvidløgsrust « Skrubtudsens have — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:44:20 +0000

[...] går læste jeg om Patricks hvidløg der nu har fået hvidløgsrust. Der var ikke noget i mine hvidløg. Men i dag fandt jeg så det [...]

By: Søren

Søren — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:13:54 +0000

Oh nemesis. Yesterday no rust, today the first little area with spots on a single leave. Did the first spray with skimmed milk today.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:23:57 +0000

Søren, I recently came across something that said rust needs a humidity of at least 97% for 4+ hours to become established, but can’t become established on wet plants. If the humidity is high, you might try spraying your plants with water instead of skimmed milk.

By: john curtin

john curtin — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:44:23 +0000

Interesting Patrick. Last weekend there were no scapes on mine – maybe some will have appeared this week. I’ll get down there this Saturday. Think I’ll remove most of them as I prefer the bulbs to develop. I’ll check for rust as well.

By: Søren

Søren — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:05:00 +0000

I wonder if I should try to spray skimmed milk on my garlics, to try to prevent garlic rust this year. I have seen no sign of it yet, but guess it will be on its way. I intend to follow your example, trying to have some of the garlics develop seeds. Could be very interesting.