How to identify garlic rust from its orange leaf pustules, tell it apart from ordinary yellowing, and manage it in a home garden.

Garlic mosaic virus streaks leaves with light-green to yellow blotches and shrinks bulbs, and the only real fix is starting future crops from certified virus-free seed stock.

Blue mold turns bruised or poorly cured garlic bulbs into blue-green powdery rot in storage, and curing right away is the fix.

A guide to Georgian Crystal Porcelain garlic: what it is, how much winter cold it needs to form cloves, and when to plant it by region.

Garlic neck rot forms in storage after infection near harvest. Here is how to spot it, what causes it, and how curing and clean seed stock prevent it.

A guide to spotting garlic disease symptoms early, from yellowing leaves to basal plate rot, and what each one means for the crop.

Garlic white rot lives in soil for decades, so learning to identify it early protects every future planting of alliums.

Garlic hosts only a handful of pests worth worrying about, and each one leaves a distinct mark on the leaf, bulb or soil around it.

Pink root turns garlic roots pink and red without killing the plant, and knowing the soil-temperature range that favors it helps you avoid replanting into it.

Pull whole garlic plants before the bulb divides for a mild, scallion-like green garlic, and learn when the window opens and closes.