Rust again!

[ancee]

Has anyone else had bad rust problems? The year before last I planted leeks seeds to overwinter and they all succumbed to rust. Last year in October I bought garlic and onion sets from wilkos and ended up pulling them early today due to rust. They were in different beds in the garden and this garden had been a wilderness for years before we moved in and nobody around us grows veg. Has anybody got any advice on how I can avoid rust? I'm a bit baffled! Thank you

[Elfeda]

am thinking of spacing rows wider.

[Sharpy]

My garlic was covered in rust this year, although 6 feet away not a spot on my onions (3 varieties). Pulled the lot up today and some lovely bulbs. But like Elfeda says it`s down to spacing and air flow.

[Penellype]

Quite interesting info from the RHS about leek rust https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=214. The leeks at one end of my friend's veg garden got this very badly this year, while others of the same variety (Musselburgh) and same seed packet but sown a little earlier at the other end of the 3m wide plot didn't get it. Both lots were planted at about the same spacing. Onions growing a couple of feet away are not apparently affected.

[kathyd]

We get loads of rust here, so now I sow Malabar leeks which are rust resistant and do appear to do much better. Garlic sometimes gets it but the bulbs are usually OK, and so far been lucky with onions - does anyone know a rust-resistant variety though, just in case? I also get rust on my antirrhinums, hollyhocks, various wild flowers, and even the field grasses seem to suffer in a bad year!

[Elfeda]

I have planted garlic in 3 different places in may back yard . one spot got effected with rust where I have planted too many on several rows. luckily it did not spread to any other plants on same side few feets away. I removed all the leaves effected with rust, so the plants now has no leaves but just the stem. Can I leave them in the ground for another month?

[Lumpy]

My over winter leeks - 'Bleu de Solaise' have got rust. I spotted it this morning and I am sure that it was not there 4-5 days ago so it appears that the rust gremlin has struck again.

I have again thinned them out as they really were to close and as a last resort cut off half of the foliage.

Never had rust until we moved up here so now going off to mooch at Malabars.