Should you plant garlic together with strawberries: benefits or harm to the harvest
On the Internet, it is often recommended to plant garlic in a strawberry bed to protect strawberries from pests and diseases.
Whether it is worth following this advice is discussed by an expert of the online publication Belnovosti, agronomist, and landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh .
Should I plant garlic with strawberries?
Garlic is excellent at repelling aphids, spider mites, weevils, bugs and wireworms from strawberries. Garlic also reduces the likelihood of gray mold appearing on strawberries.
However, it is important to keep in mind that it is not possible to grow large garlic in a strawberry bed.
In addition, strawberries and garlic have a common dangerous pest – nematode.
If the goal is to grow large garlic, it is better to plant it separately.
To protect strawberries from pests, you can plant, for example, marigolds, mint, sage, and parsley.
