When growing garlic, as well as other crops, it is important to follow crop rotation rules.
An expert of the online publication BelNovosti, agronomist, landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh reminded that garlic should not be planted after plants that belong to the onion family.
Among them are the same garlic, onions, and also bulbous flowers.
If the area was used for growing the above crops, garlic can be grown here only after 3-4 years.
The reason is simple – numerous pests and pathogens can accumulate in the soil.
Instead, set aside an area for garlic beds where green manure crops were previously grown – alfalfa, clover, mustard, legumes, phacelia, oats, buckwheat.
Suitable predecessors include early cabbage and potatoes, as well as tomatoes, eggplants, carrots, beets and peppers.
You are guaranteed to get a good harvest of garlic if you plant it in the beds that were occupied by pumpkin vegetables in the previous season - zucchini, squash, cucumbers, pumpkin.
