Very unhappy here, discovered what looks very much like white rot on my garlic, its affected about half the crop, all close to one another.
It leaves me with a bit of a problem this year. Its at the end of a 2 year old bed. The bed is 5 metres long, at the other end to the garlic is spring onions and halfway between the two is a seed bed with leeks in it.
The plan was to put the leeks along one side of the bed..... which doesn't seem a very good idea now
The leeks are about 1 and a half metres from the garlic, they look ok, is it worth using them and moving them somewhere else? Or is that too dodgy and would it be better to not have leeks this year, or to try to get some new ones from freecycle or something?
Ahhh, I'm confused and pretty upset about this, I was planning on saving the garlic and having a very large crop next year, now I dare not save any for seed.
The garlic which succumbed has very soft rotted bulb material around the outside of the bulb, the inner part of the bulbs were still hard, does this sound like white rot.
Tbh I've looked hard and can't find anything else it could be.
I have read another thread on here about this, but any new advice would be very much appreciated.