How to Prepare Soil for Garlic: A Village Trick
If you don’t want to spend time and effort on carefully preparing the soil for planting garlic, then you should simply change the bed.
As a rule, the crop feels good after legumes.
However, this is not always possible, so we have to restore the land. With the right approach, we can make sure that the garlic harvest next year will be even better, says Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert of the online publication BelNovosti, an agronomist and landscape designer.
What soil restoration method is worth knowing about
First of all, it is worth paying special attention to the first forty centimeters of soil. It needs to be thoroughly loosened, and make sure that there are no weeds left.
Then we find nettles, chop them with a shovel and form the first layer of a new bed with them. You can replace nettles with comfrey.
After this we add five centimeters of compost.
Next, a mixture of bone meal and manure is laid out. "Close" with another layer of compost.
In order for the fertilizers to work more actively and saturate the soil, a covering material made of black plastic is used. Thanks to this method, you can grow large and high-quality garlic.
