How to Tell if Your Soil is Healthy + Garlic Rust and What to Do About it

Jun 27, 2025

Welcome to episode 183 of Growers Daily!

We cover: garlic rust and what to do about it, how to tell if your soil is healthy, and it's feedback friday!

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Garlic Rust Info: https://blogs.cornell.edu/livegpath/gallery/garlic/garlic-rust/

 

Plant spacing study https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286523717_Effect_of_Spacing_in_Incidence_and_Severity_of_Garlic_Rust_Puccinia_Allii_Rudolphi_and_Bulb_Yield_and_Related_Traits_of_Garlic_at_Eastern_Ethiopia

 

Is your soil improving video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPd5PJKdzl8

 

Slake test: https://fyi.extension.wisc.edu/danecountyag/files/2020/02/Slake-test-handout.pdf

 

Guinea tick study: https://academic.oup.com/jme/article/61/2/410/7590386?login=false

 

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