Garlic Rust

My Garlic has developed very bad rust, last years was fine but this year bad can anyone give advice as to what to do. Not keen on chemicals on veg crops and will next years get infected.

 

I had rust on my garlic one year and it took hold so quickly that I couldn't find anything that would save it. Since then I've grown all my garlic in raised beds to improve drainage and never had it again.

 

I'm interested to find out as I had some years ago but none since, I read here (http://www.ehow.com/about_6305518_organic-rust-control-plants.html) that you can use a mixture of garlic and water to spray on the affected plants. Anyone aware if that is a good solution?

 

Thanks for your reply I will give it a try . where your buls still usable ??

 

Hi sorry to hijack your post but my garlic leaves have started and yellow and are doing so at quite a rate, Could this be garlic rust? I hace added some blood fish and bone to the soil but it doesn't seem to be doing much to help

 

I can't see from that pic - are there rusty coloured spots on it?

No - this shows how bad they can get:

 

No not spots as such, the leaves have started to go yellow/brown and that one in the picture has started to die out

 

It just ripening up then cm.

 

Here's a pic of rusty garlic taken shortly after I first noticed it:



And this is what it did to my plants in 4 weeks:

 

Has anybody else suffered such catastrophic loss of garlic from rust? I read of people complaining about a 'bit of rust' and wonder if I got some super virulent strain completely wipe out my garlic crop 4 years ago.

 

Bad luck there Scrungee , a whole crop perished . But your picture of the garlic rust is a good example , so as not to get confused with the leaves dieing back as they ripen , as Ziggy said.
I planted mine , Wilkos cheap and cheerful garlic , mid October the leaves are starting to die back now . When would you expect to harvest them ? Also can I plant my next crop of garlic in the same container ?

 

No scringee mine look just like yours