Something's Amiss with My Garlic

It's only affecting this one plant. Any ideas of what's going on and what I can do to help it? I didn't see any bugs or anything on the leaves or plant itself.

Wish I could help but no one has more trouble growing garlic than I...

I don't think it is anything to worry about.

I'll keep an eye on it.

Where can I buy garlic to plant, or does it have to come from seed?

You can plant the kind from the grocery store if it's organic, but you don't plant it until fall. There's also a place in Brownwood that sells it and if you come to a RU, you might get some in a trade.

Yes, I have some bulblets that I can give you.
Josephine.

I've got two different types of garlic planted and it seems like they're taking forever to develop/mature/whatever-you-want-to-call-it.

I have Ajo Rojo and I have some elephant garlic. I have to wonder if the extremely cold weather here in Houston back in February has stunted them. The 1015 onions aren't doing as well as last year, either. Very few of them are baseball-sized. They're mostly just a bit larger than golf balls - and they're flopping over all ready! Last year the onions were huge... some almost softball-sized.

I think we're in for some rough weather the next few winters or so. And I was just watching Joe Bastardi's spring forecast, and he says it's going to be too dry - and quick to get too hot: http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4632664/the-forecast-for-commodities-/?playlist_id=87185

I suppose the one blessing from that will mean fewer mosquitoes this year - unless the neighbors who tend to water a lot have things in their yards that collect and hold water. I know for a fact that one of my immediate neighbors has a bird bath that she rarely cleans/empties. :/ Another neighbor has had an above-ground swimming pool sitting there with no cover over it, and she stopped adding the chemicals about two years ago - even though she's got them in her garage. Some guy is supposed to come get it, but he hasn't yet. I swear that if it's not gone by this Monday, I'm gonna shoot holes in the thing and let it drain out! I'm tired of tossing Mosquito Dunks over the fence into it! (So far it's probably cost me about $75.00-worth of Dunks just to try to keep the mosquitoes in check. I'd report her to the HOA, but she's the president. Heh Why are people so inconsiderate?)

Stephanie, my garlic is doing the same thing, I think it is beetles sucking on it. There are lots of flea beetles and striped beetles around.

Hmmm...It's only on one of mine. Is there something I can spray on them to kill the beetles?

Nothing that wouldn't be poison, don't worry about it, these things come and go by themselves.

Okie dokie!

Thanks, girls. I'm looking forward to geting my garlic!

Stephanietx...Some of the spots appear to be "bumps". Can you scratch them off or not? I've never heard of scale insects on garlic but it may be possible. If you rub them with a wet paper towel do they dissolve? Could be fungal spores. Do the spots appear on the underside of the leaves first then appear on top? Could be mold.
There could be a chewing insect rasping the tender leaves, immature worms for example; go out at night with a flashlight to find night time marauders.
Buster

I have it on mine too, and i think it is the work of beetles.
Stephanie, mine is beginning to make flowering stems, don't forget to cut then down to the top leaves.
You can cook those like asparagus and they are delicious.

Yes, Josephine, I noticed those last weekend and have begun to snip.

Buster I would think it was something like that too if it affected more than one of the plants. It's limited to just this one. Weird!

Yes you cut them when they are tender, long before the bloom opens, if you wait too long they will be tough and not very edible.