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Post by littleminnie on Oct 16, 2013 8:37:53 GMT -5
Monday when I was checking out that other market I talked with a farmer about garlic. He was a real A Sshole. He grows one variety and doesn't see a need to try others. He refused to believe soft necks did well here and he was convinced that everyone in the continent had asters yellows last year. So he is just selecting for the least yellow in his crop. I wished him luck with his idea that they will just grow out of it gradually. But I do think that outside the Midwest the garlic stock was not infected.
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Post by littleminnie on Jul 5, 2014 20:37:23 GMT -5
 I bought all fresh and clean stock, planted in a new place and was otherwise very careful, but I think the garlic looks bad again this year. So bummed. |
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Post by Walk on Jul 7, 2014 13:32:50 GMT -5
I bought all fresh and clean stock, planted in a new place and was otherwise very careful, but I think the garlic looks bad again this year. So bummed. If this is a current photo of garlic, I'd have to agree that it doesn't look so good. Did your garlic produce normal scapes? The aster yellows affects the flower stalk and when we had it bad a couple of years ago there were almost no scapes. Your onion and leek crops look great in comparison. Where did you get your garlic stock from? I think we've mostly selected the disease out of the varieties we managed to salvage from a couple of years ago (only a couple of plants that look bad now). Plus we got in a new variety from a California grower and it's doing fine. Only a couple of weeks until harvest to tell for sure. But I would like to replace the Russian Giant this fall as that's the one variety that we liked best of those we lost. Hoping that planting stock will be more available this fall and disease-free. |
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Post by littleminnie on Jul 7, 2014 15:28:42 GMT -5
Yes it is a current pic. I have never had problems with the other alliums. The scapes were great but the ends of the leaves have been yellower than I want to see. I expect to pull next week. Then I have to make decisions.
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Post by Walk on Jul 8, 2014 7:47:33 GMT -5
Yes it is a current pic. I have never had problems with the other alliums. The scapes were great but the ends of the leaves have been yellower than I want to see. I expect to pull next week. Then I have to make decisions. Since we went through the Aster Yellows garlic year of 2012, I now know what to look for when selecting bulbs for replanting. I think the smell of the infected bulbs is forever etched into my brain. Plus the color of the "paper wrappers" was also distinctive, a weird purplish brown. We don't need a repeat of that again. I hope your garlic is just a little stressed and nothing worse. |
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Post by littleminnie on Jul 8, 2014 18:40:22 GMT -5
I believe the garlic I planted was all clean and from other sources. I saved none. I harvested 4 today and they seemed good. They are earlier than expected. Maybe the yellow leaves are just on schedule. Fingers crossed!
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Post by zeedman on Jul 8, 2014 22:18:44 GMT -5
Could be stress caused by excess rain; we've certainly had plenty of that in the upper Midwest this year, with a corresponding reduction in sunny days. After sprouting normally in Spring, much of my garlic was lost due to the soil being waterlogged. The lower 1/3 of my garden is still so wet that it smells like dead fish, and even weeds won't grow there.
So far, I don't see signs of aster yellows in the survivors, but I'm waiting for some of the scapes to open. Abnormal (and excessive) flower development in the scapes was one of the observable symptoms of aster yellows. I'll be digging up some of the artichoke varieties as soon as it dries out (if that ever happens???), I'll know more then. I have observed more stem cloves in the artichokes than in previous years, don't know if that could be because of the new stock or a response to the weather.
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Post by littleminnie on Jul 16, 2014 19:52:29 GMT -5
We don't have a water problem around here. It was nice to have rain for a change this spring. I harvested today and am not happy. I wouldn't say a big problem but there is some, and not every clove grew so I planted 645 last fall, preharvested about 50 lately, and today dug 476. What happened to the 120 missing? It's funny because my onions, leeks, scallions and shallots do better than anything else in the garden. The year we got AY I had a huge harvest with some very large bulbs although infected. Since the harvest is pathetic for me.  |
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