Garlic Problem... Again

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Originally Posted by TomNJ

I had the "wispy leaves" (aka "whiskbrooming") rather severely last year with lots of rounds and half the normal scapes. Based on my research this may be due to excess nitrogen. While garlic likes nitrogen to develop lush greens, it only needs about 150 lbs elemental N/acre. My notes indicate I went way overboard last year and applied 550 lbs elemental N/acre. Likewise your post from last year where you added three applications of 10-10-10 at 8 oz/18' row calculates to 360 lbs elemental N/acre (assuming you applied in a one foot width down the rows)...

Thanks for that info, Ted. It's something else to take into consideration. Time to tinker with that.

After chasing down garlic sources online I also got to thinking that it will be hard to get garlic early enough to do the 8 or so weeks of vernalization and plant when I usually do (mid October) when most sources don't ship until mid-late September.