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German Red Garlic: When to Plant the Rocambole Heads That Need a Real Winter

German Red Garlic: When to Plant the Rocambole Heads That Need a Real Winter

German Red is a Rocambole hardneck garlic that needs a real winter chill to divide into cloves, and this article maps where that chill actually shows up.

Southern Blight in Garlic: The Warm-Climate Rot

Southern Blight in Garlic: The Warm-Climate Rot

Southern blight in garlic causes soft rot at the bulb base with white fungal threads and tiny tan sclerotia, most active in warm, wet soil.

Rust on Garlic: Orange Pustules and What They Cost the Bulb

Rust on Garlic: Orange Pustules and What They Cost the Bulb

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: Streaked Leaves and Shrinking Bulbs

Garlic Mosaic Virus: Streaked Leaves and Shrinking Bulbs

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 on Garlic: Bruised Cloves and Rotten Storage

Blue Mould on Garlic: Bruised Cloves and Rotten Storage

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

Georgian Crystal Garlic: When to Plant the Porcelain Heads That Need a Real Winter

Georgian Crystal Garlic: When to Plant the Porcelain Heads That Need a Real Winter

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.

Neck Rot in Garlic: The Storage Loss That Starts in the Field

Neck Rot in Garlic: The Storage Loss That Starts in the Field

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.

Garlic Diseases: Reading the Symptoms Before You Lose the Crop

Garlic Diseases: Reading the Symptoms Before You Lose the Crop

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

White Rot in Garlic: The Soil Disease That Never Leaves

White Rot in Garlic: The Soil Disease That Never Leaves

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

Garlic Pests: The Few That Matter, and What They Look Like

Garlic Pests: The Few That Matter, and What They Look Like

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.

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