The Garden of Woz...

[Whwoz]

@JayneR13 , I grow as much of what we eat as possible, seasonally it would approach 100% of vegetables and I do preserve/freeze a lot also.

Those beets are so tall because they are running up to seed. Stems upto 5 feet high are possible from a large root.

[Whwoz]

17306076205807726959780614144804.jpg

Picked the scapes off the Turban garlic today and noticed two other things, one a lot of them are side shooting and two RUST. Going to have to lift all the turbans and porcelain garlics which are showing rust even though the porcelains haven't started to scape.

May have to stick to the Elephant Garlics for a couple of years

[JayneR13]

Garlic rust bummer! I've had to dig potatoes early for similar reasons. I've received a smaller harvest but that's better than no harvest at all! Is there nothing you can do to stop the rust?

[Whwoz]

Garlic rust bummer! I've had to dig potatoes early for similar reasons. I've received a smaller harvest but that's better than no harvest at all! Is there nothing you can do to stop the rust?

I am not aware of anything that will control this fungus unfortunately. We had it for the first time last season, which was a lot wetter than this one and I can only hope a season or two without true garlic will eliminate the spores from our soil. Not sure where it has blown in from. fortunately it does not appear to be infecting any other alliums at this stage

[bower]

Any chance you could contain it by snipping off all the affected leaves?
I realize you have many other garlic varieties to save if you can, but it seems such a shame to pull the plants just when they are coming up to bulbing time.

[Whwoz]

Any chance you could contain it by snipping off all the affected leaves?
I realize you have many other garlic varieties to save if you can, but it seems such a shame to pull the plants just when they are coming up to bulbing time.

Hadn't considered doing this @bower, will have a better look when I get home, it maybe possible to do so, or a combination snipping off leaves and digging the most badly infected

[bower]

The fungus depends on cool and humid conditions, so perhaps if the weather cooperates, you could nip it in the bud.
https://gardenbetty.com/grrr-garlic-rus ... w-to-deal/

[Mark_Thompson]

@JayneR13 , I grow as much of what we eat as possible, seasonally it would approach 100% of vegetables and I do preserve/freeze a lot also.

Those beets are so tall because they are running up to seed. Stems upto 5 feet high are possible from a large root.

Speaking of beets, it’s been my experience that the people of your land don’t pronounce that word quite like the people from my land do. Not sure if that’s an all of Australia thing, but maybe you could share with us the alternative pronunciation of beet root?

[Whwoz]

@JayneR13 , I grow as much of what we eat as possible, seasonally it would approach 100% of vegetables and I do preserve/freeze a lot also.

Those beets are so tall because they are running up to seed. Stems upto 5 feet high are possible from a large root.

Speaking of beets, it’s been my experience that the people of your land don’t pronounce that word quite like the people from my land do. Not sure if that’s an all of Australia thing, but maybe you could share with us the alternative pronunciation of beet root?

Beetroots are Beetroots to me, nothing fancy or different.

[Mark_Thompson]

Does it sound like beet root, or like bee chroot?

[Whwoz]

Does it sound like beet root, or like bee chroot?

Say What???????

[Mark_Thompson]

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronun ... h/beetroot

Cambridge says it better than I do. In the US we simply call them beets, but if we say beet root, it sounds different from yours. When I was down there I thought it was hilarious (I was fairly young and fairly stupid though)

[JayneR13]

Po-TA-to, poTOToe, it’s all the same in the belly!