This is the second year of my trialling of this method of combatting white rot in alliums, and another resounding success for the method.
Previously, I used to loose about 30% of my allium crops to white rot. I have just lifted the last of my alliums this year and only one garlic head showed any sign of white rot.
There is still time this year for you to treat the beds that you intend to use for growing alliums next year, with ground up garlic cloves.
For the method, see this page http://www.growyourown.info/page173.html

Has anybody else been trialling this method and what results did you get?

Realfood, could be my Android, but.I get a single page which ends as the proposed method starts, with " These “sclerotia” will become dormant over the Winter, but in"

The link is coming up fine here.

Good, it's just me then.

Very interesting information. Thank you. Will try it as we had it last year. Though this year our onions are looking really good, which is more than can be said for our peas and sweet peas.

I grew a reduced number of garlic(s) this year due to white rot. I found that the hard necks fared far better than the soft necks. Next year I'll grow just hard necks.


Cheers, Tony.

As a result of this thread I pulled the three Flowering-alium plants up that had failed to produce flowering heads.

No sign of little black things things and lots of bulbs that appear unattached now I disturbed them. Presumably a new site with better-drained soil and more sun.

this has been trialled commercially with onion waste for at least 10 years. as the link suggests , the idea is to trick the spores into starting their life cycle but as the host dies then they cannot complete it & just die therefore reducing the number of resting spores in the ground.

Hi Farmer Jon,
Certainly many experiments have been carried out but we always hear about the trials going on and that is far as it ever seems to get as we never seem hear any conclusive results.
I think we owe Real Food a debt of gratitude for sharing with us his findings which seem to be very promising.
I, for one, will be following the information to the letter because last year Shallots here were very seriously affected and it is the first time this have ever occurred here in well over thirty years.
I haven't got another twenty years to wait to see if the spores have died out so anything that can help me cleanse my soil if very welcome
I say a big thank you to Realfood.
JB.

This sounds excellent. I'll give it a try next summer. Thank you.

Pleased to be of help.