The beets left the garden bed, but their unpleasant trace remained.
Crop Protection magazine has published shocking data: planting spinach after beets leads to immediate infection with cercospora.
The fungus, which beets carry asymptomatically, is fatal to spinach.
Gardener Tatyana from Kyiv described the tragedy on the forum “Garden Paradise”:
"The spinach leaves were covered in holes and burnt in three days!"
But this is not the only prohibition.
Scientists from Michigan State University have proven that Swiss chard planted after beets suffers from a boron deficiency - its roots become deformed and its leaves lose color.
Salvation? Choose "neutral" followers - for example, peas or cucumbers.
They do not have common diseases with beets and enrich the soil with nitrogen.
And if you add wood ash (a source of boron) to the soil, as agronomist Petr Lomonosov advises, the bed will recover twice as fast.
Don't take risks - practice crop rotation!
