tinpins's blog: 15th July, 2013

 Sometimes things don't go as planned.

Oh such a familiar theme lately.

Before the big flood of July 8th we had several weeks of persistent, sometimes quite heavy rain.

We were concerned about the garlic but we were watching it carefully.

Six varieties of gourmet garlic ... 220+ bulbs we had planted last November.

Only the bottom leaves of the plants were yellowed by July 7th ... we were watching and waiting.

Then came the flood.

The garlic beds were particularly hard hit and the ground stayed water logged.

In just six days the leaves had yellowed and the plants looked most unhappy.

Today is the first day we have had a chance to take a couple of hours and deal with the garlic.

We were not surprised to see what we dug up.

We threw out half a dozen bulbs from the Leningrad bed which had been affected by nematodes!

All of the other varieties had damage to some degree ... probably Fusarium basal rot.

We've washed them off lightly and they are drying outside now.

We'll inspect them more thoroughly tomorrow and decide what to do then.

As important as the garlic is to us, there are more pressing things to deal with in our basement.

All was not well in the garlic beds today.

Never mind, there will be another crop next year.

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