It's time to prepare for planting winter garlic, even though it's still too early to start sowing.
Proper preparation will help you grow large garlic heads and will also help prevent the feathers from turning yellow.
Anastasia Kovrizhnykh, an expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", an agronomist and landscape designer, told how to prepare beds for planting winter garlic.
Key points
1. Start by choosing a suitable place for planting. The garlic bed should be well lit.
2. It is important that this is a place where melt water and moisture do not accumulate during rain.
3. The soil should be light, fertile, with good drainage.
4. An equally important point is to observe crop rotation.
Crop rotation
Garlic will grow well after cucumbers, pumpkins and squashes.
Good predecessors are peas, beans, lima beans and cabbage (any).
The worst predecessors
Potatoes, like any other root vegetables, are not suitable as a predecessor to garlic.
Garlic is not grown after garlic or onions.
What to add under garlic
A good result can be achieved by adding 10 liters of compost per 1 sq. m of the future garden bed.
Also add mineral autumn fertilizer containing phosphorus and potassium. Approximately 50-60 g per 1 sq. m.
If the soil is acidic, then dolomite, lime, chalk or wood ash are added (400-500 g per 1 sq. m).
Fertilizers are applied during digging, and then the ground is leveled with a rake and the rows are marked out.
Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh
