Home Garden Garlic Growing - Plant Diseases. Possible Problems With Your Garlic Crop Garlic is generally a very hardy crop which grows well in the garden, however there are a few diseases it is prone to.
Many of these also attack onions, another allium to which garlic is closely related. I can't cover everything here, nor can I diagnose individual cases, however I can give some idea of the sort of problems to look out for. Treatment for these diseases depends on the sort of garlic grower - and general gardener - you are. Most of them can be treated by commercially available products. Best Way To Store Garlic – Storing Garlic Before And After Planting. By Susan Patterson, Master Gardener Now that you have successfully grown and harvested your garlic, it is time to decide how to store your aromatic crop.
How to Plant Garlic in the Spring. When to Plant Garlic. When is the best time to plant garlic in the home garden?
The answer is, "it depends". In the USA and Europe, garlic can be planted either in the early spring or late fall / early winter. Spring Planting Poor weather conditions often mean that spring planted garlic produces smaller bulbs. In addition the seed garlic must be chilled before planting in order to cause it to break out of its dormancy. Autumn / Fall Planting In more Northerly areas it more common to plant garlic towards the end of the year. The usual advice to gardeners is to plant fall garlic soon after the first major frost of the year, usually between mid-October and late November depending on your local climate. How to Grow Garlic in Warmer Climates. By Heather Rhoades Garlic is a bulb and because it is a bulb, most garlic varieties need to have a certain amount of cold weather to form the tasty bulbs we like to eat.
For gardeners in warmer climates, this can be a frustrating fact, but not one that needs to keep them from growing garlic in the garden. Garlic Varieties - Hardneck and Softneck. Garlic is part of the allium genus which has around 400 varieties including onions and leeks.
Growing Garlic. How to Grow Garlic at Home Growing your own garlic is fun and you get to the reward of eating your crop.
Here are some tips on how to grow garlic successfully at home. Garlic is a member of the allium family which also includes leeks, shallots and onions. Individual cloves act as seeds. The bulbs grow underground and the leaves shoot in to the air. There are many different garlic varieties, a lot of which you can easily grow at home for a great crop.
Growing Your Own Garlic - Planting Growing Harvesting and Storing Garlic. As far as I'm concerned, garlic gets the blue ribbon for growing your own.
It's absurdly easy to plant and care for; it tastes great; it looks beautiful and it takes up so little ground that even those with very small gardens can raise enough to be self-sufficient in garlic for a good part of the year. All you have to do is choose the right varieties; plant at the right time, in the right soil; then harvest when just right and store correctly. 1. Choosing Types of Garlic If you look in a specialist catalog like the one at Gourmet Garlic Gardens, you'll find dozens of varieties of garlic listed.
You see where this is going – and you can see a lot more types of garlic on either of those websites, but for general purposes the most important difference is the one between softneck and hardneck. Softnecks are so called because the whole green plant dies down to pliancy, leaving nothing but the bulb and flexible stems that are easy to braid. Growing Garlic - Pests. Garlic is generally very resistant to pests.
In fact it is often grown spefically to protect neighbouring plants - see the page on garlic co-planting. However there are a few pests to which garlic is itself succeptible. Many of these also attack onions, to which garlic is closely related. I can't cover everything here, nor can we diagnose individual cases, however I can give some idea of the sort of problems to look out for.
Some of these pests can be dealt with via commercially available pesticides. Bulb Mites Bulb mites can grow up to 1mm long. Bulb mites stunt plant growth and result in a smaller crop. Pea Leafminer Liriomyza huidobrensis Leafminers appear on garlic plants first as eggs layed within the leaf tissue. Leafminers leave the garlic leaves when full grown.
Damage to garlic from leafminers is mainly cosmetic and they don't usually pose a serious threat to the plant itself or the bulbs. Wheat Curl Mite.