Ramp (Allium tricoccum) leaf wilt disease

I have a patch of ramps that I transplanted to my farm and over the years they developed a leaf blotch and wilting pattern that reoccurs annually. Anyone know what it might be? Appears to be some sort of foliar fungus. I have multiple patches, but only this one seems to be affected.



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It doesn’t look a huge patch. It may be worth harvesting and eating all of this one, and dividing another patch to seed a new location. I get some wilt on my little patch, but not the spots. I’ve just assumed it was part of the dying back process here.

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Wonder why ramps were never commercially grown. Noone seems to know much about them or even the diseases they get.

They’re very site specific here. Within a yard or two they’ll go from thick to non-existent.

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