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Garlic Growing Problems we have encountered

Garlic is generally a forgiving crop with few issues, nothing likes to eat it, other than cockatoos doing the odd pruning and animals trampling it.

However:
1.  If your seed gets too hot prior to planting  it may not germinate

2.  If your paddocks are too wet prior to harvest your garlic may rot in the ground

3.  If your paddocks are too wet, but the garlic does not rot, then it may develop witches brooms:  each clove sprouts and it does not form a bulb  --  we have found that these can be harvested quickly and sold as single cloves

4.  If your paddocks are too dry close to harvest time, then the garlic may dry out before it is truly ready to harvest, resulting in small bulbs -- that is: the dry leaves are from water stress, not the summer die back which indicates time to harvest

more to come

Garlic does have some diseases, like 'white rot' which is common to alliums, and 'rust', but we are not covering diseases on this page