Organic garlic growers

[Magdalena Bassett]

Are there newsgroups which talk directly about organic garlic growing? Thanks Magdalena Bassett

[Steve]

There seem to be newsgroups on every conceivable subject, but..... I think you are getting a little too specialized to expect a group on just that. There is the newsgroup "rec.gardens.organic". I just took a look at that and they only had 10 new threads started in the last year and some (most?) of those were spam. No help there.

Steve

[Loki]

il Sat, 01 Jan 2005 23:50:27 -0500, Steve ha scritto:

There are also some sites just on garlic, unfortunately I can't view them well but a Google on garlic will find them. Garlicworld was one.

this has a chat on garlic

And those are just on the first page of a search on garlic cultivation.

My garlic are currently covered in rust and I suspect the only solution is to wave a flame thrower over the soil to kill any spores. However I don't have one handy. ;-). It also seems to be a growing problem, Only the leeks are immune it seems.

[Loki]

il Sun, 02 Jan 2005 22:34:22 GMT, "Garry Nixon" ha scritto:

Those spores blow on the wind, but mulching may help keep the soil ones down but who knows. It is a shame. Unfortunately rust affects the hollyhocks and the rhubarb too. A lot of plants :-( I think even if I left it for a few years there's too many plants around with rust. And I can't just pull out my neighbours plants for all the inattention they pay them. Tempting though it be...

I yanked a few garlic out today and they seem ok, just a bit early. The rust doesn't infect the cloves it seems. I wonder how they would grow in a pot?

[Magdalena Bassett]

Thank you, I will try that. Magdalena