Anyone know what's up with these???

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  1. infowarrior

    infowarrior Apprentice Gardener

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    My garlic are begining to show themselves a bit now but they're not growing straight up. I grew this kind last year with no problems and although I didn't pay much attention to them at this stage of growth last year I'm nearly sure they wern't curling leaves like this. I'm growing them in a new raised bed this year and mixed a bit of fish, blood'n bone into the soil before planting, but I didn't use that much so would'nt have thought it was a case of overfertilization. Has anyone else's garlic did this before and is it just a phase they'll go through possibly? I've got another empty raised bed next to them that I could use to carefully transplant them into if I had to (worse case scenario).
    Anyone give a view on this?? I'll try to upload 2 photos.

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  2. lazydog

    lazydog Know nothing but willing to learn

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    In the past have you used horse manure on this area if so it might be aminopyralid which is residue from weed killer it has been known to affect the onion family,I could be totally wrong as the garlic in the picture does not look to bad yet.
     
  3. SiXpence

    SiXpence Gardener

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    Never grown Garlic Infowarrior,

    Strange behavior though.
     
  4. loveweeds

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    didn't know about this before

    sounds like nasty stuff
    you think you get nice organic horsemanure and it the end its even worse than using chemical fertilisers:scratch:
     
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    Steve R Soil Furtler

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    Always do a bean test before using manure, especially if you do not know it's origin.

    Testing For Aminopyralid in Manure

    Steve...:)
     
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