[svalli]

Interesting information about the bulb wrapper color. I had quite many bulb this year with blue color on the outer wrappers and was first worried that it is some kind of disease. The blue was only on the wrapper layer, which was in contact with the soil and the other wrappers had the normal white and purple coloring.
I was wondering, if the blue color was caused by the granular lime or fertilizer, which was still partially undissolved in the soil when I pulled my garlic. Some of the granules had been touching the bulbs. Last fall I did not do really good work mixing the lime and fertilizer to the soil prior planting. I just spread it on the surface and mixed with a rake. Some of the granules fell in the planting holes, when I planted the cloves.

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