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Allium tuberosum
Growing calendar
Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.
Guides
- How to Grow Garlic Chives from Seed and Get Through the Slow First Year
- Garlic Chive Care: Watering, Feeding and Keeping the Clump Productive
- How to Harvest Garlic Chives: Cutting to the Base Three or Four Times a Season
- Garlic Chives Through the Year: A Season by Season Growing Schedule
- Garlic Chive Pests and Diseases: Rust, Thrips and Rot at the Crown
- Dividing Garlic Chives: When to Split the Clump and How to Do It
Common problems
Start from what you can see on the plant.
Pests and diseases (23)
Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.
Leek Moth
CommonPest
White grazed scars and small holes line the leaf surface, and splitting the leaf reveals larvae inside. Damaged leaves snap easily and die back.
Rust
Disease
Small raised orange-yellow to red-brown pustules form on both leaf surfaces, then rupture and release powdery spores. Heavy infection yellows the leaves and kills them early.
Southern Blight
Disease
The stem rots at soil level and white silky mycelium spreads over the crown and the surrounding soil surface. Brown sclerotia the size of rapeseed then form and the plant wilts and dies rapidly.
Bacterial Soft Rot
Disease
The crown or the head becomes water-soaked and soft, then collapses into a slimy mush. The rotting tissue gives off a distinctive foul odor.
Root-knot Nematode
Pest
The plant wilts in the daytime and does not recover with feeding or watering. Pull it up and the roots carry beaded chains of galls of varying size with few fine roots.
Downy Mildew
Disease
Pale yellow to yellow-brown angular lesions form on the upper leaf surface with a gray-purple mold in the matching spot underneath. Lesions merge, the leaves die back and the plant declines early.
