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    Garlic leaves yellow: should I feel blue? See photos (of garlic, not me!)

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    Calling anyone who has more experience with garlic than me (which .er.. means anyone who knew what a garlic plant looked like before this year haha!!)

    After a few really cold nights, a lot of the leaves turned yellow and crispy at the ends. They had been so strong and healthy looking until that. That was 2 or 3 weeks ago.

    I've been looking at other threads in this forum and they mentioned feeding. I haven't fed them since I planted them. Could that be it, or maybe just the cold spell?

    Either way what should I do...cut back the straggling leaves or leave them?
    Feed them with some chicken manure?

    Some stats:
    Variety: Cristo
    Planted early November
    In mixture of soil and quite well-rotted manure (more manure than soil)

    Thanks!
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    They do look a bit yellow but I would leave them alone, don't cut them off. The frost sometimes makes the tips yellow but yours look planted very close together? They should be about 6in apart. As they are going yellow it wouldn't hurt to give them some feed. The garlic farm advises feeding with sulphate of potash during feb - so you could give that a go

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      Well spotted Scarlet! They are 4 inches apart, but I suppose this is ok as this is as per instructions on the packet (Taylor's is the company)

      For feeding, I'm looking for something organic (Google searching threw up different opinions about whether potash sulphate is ok or not) but anyway truth be told I don't fancy buying something that I might not use for anything else....

      I have a compost bin full of really well rotten manure and garden compost. Could I make a compost/manure tea with that and pour it on?

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      • #4
        They look OK, I've attached a pic of some happy garlic from last year showing similar prob on leaves and crop was fine (Russian Giant & Meteche). I find a hefty organic mulch at planting time is beneficial and it saves a lot of weeding! If you're not organic a pre-treatment of FB&B also helps.
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        • #5
          You have to remember they dont do a lot at this time of year above ground, but they will be concentrating on growing a good root system. They look very similar to mine.
          photo album of my garden in my profile http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...my+garden.html

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          • #6
            Thanks for getting back to me bill n dammad. Good to hear that you reckon I shouldn't be losing too much sleep....although the garlic plants in dammad's photo look a loooooot healthier than mine haha! I put some organic feed pellets on them a few days ago, will see how they go...

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