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Garlic Leaves Yellowing

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  Posted by Oldends (U13875463) on Saturday, 31st March 2012

  My autumn-sown garlic, Solent White, has yellowing leaves. We live in Surrey where there has been no appreciable rain for several weeks combined with higher-than-normal temperatures over the past fortnight. Is this the cause or is there something else wrong?

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  Posted by Tee Gee (U10012255) on Saturday, 31st March 2012

  That is quite normal for this time of the year, although this has not been a normal year, what with summer temperatures in Winter / Spring.
  
  
  The leaves affected will be last years leaves, give you plants a high nitrogen feed, a liquid feed might be best and this will also add some moisture to the ground.
  
  
  Then they should start to throw more leaves and generally grren up.
  

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  Posted by Lokelani (U8896212) on Saturday, 31st March 2012

  The tips of the leaves on my autumn planted solent white's are doing the same. I'm in West Sussex & put it down to how dry the pots are, so gave them a good water.
  
  I've never fed them before, they go in the multipurpose compost that had toms/chillis etc. in during the summer.
  
  Feeding sounds like a good plan as it'd be great if they're bigger than usual! Is tomato food a high in nitrogen one?

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  Posted by Tee Gee (U10012255) on Saturday, 31st March 2012

  is tomato food a high in nitrogen one?  
  
  No this is high in Potash.
  
  The simple way to determine what a fertiliser is high in is to look at the packaging.
  
  By law it must have a NPK value on it and it is these %'s that indicate the nutrient types.
  
  If the first number is the highest on the list then it is high in Nirogen, I think you will find with your tomato fertiliser the last number is the highest!
  
  This article might give you a better insight on how these thiings work;
  
  

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  Posted by Global_Worming (U14532104) on Saturday, 31st March 2012

  My autumn-sown garlic, Solent White, has yellowing leaves. We live in Surrey where there has been no appreciable rain for several weeks combined with higher-than-normal temperatures over the past fortnight. Is this the cause or is there something else wrong?  Oldends, The same amount of yellowing as mine or worse

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  Posted by Oldends (U13875463) on Sunday, 1st April 2012

  A bit worse, I'd say. Note that they were watered last evening and given a liquid feed using Liquid Growmore [7-7-7] in the absence of a high nitrogen feed.
  
  

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  Posted by zoomer44 (U14019069) on Sunday, 1st April 2012

  Mine are similar to yours Oldends, yellowing tips with long stems, hope the long stems don't mean they're bolting!.
  
  GW's garlic has shorter stems.

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