Garlic is a popular perennial herb crop in our country and is found on any household plot. It is unpretentious in terms of care, however, following some simple rules, you can increase the yield of the plant. Along with the choice of a well-lit area with high-quality soil, there is also such a thing as fruit change. Today we will tell you after which crops it is best to plant garlic before winter, which predecessors are considered unsuitable, and what nuances should be taken into account when planning to plant garlic.

Crops after which garlic is planted

If you know and follow the basic rules of fruit change, you can significantly increase the yield of many crops, including garlic. While it is common for some types of vegetables to draw a lot of nutrients from the structure of the earth for the purpose of their own normal growth and development, crops of another type are able to make up for their deficiency.

Many gardeners with sufficient practical experience know that garlic has a shallow root system. This explains the fact that it can receive nutrients from the topsoil. For normal growth and development, he needs a fertile and rich land. It is best to plant garlic before winter after crops with a long root system have grown in the garden before it.

Experts advise choosing a place where any grain crops were grown, with the exception of oats and barley.

Excellent predecessors are clover and alfalfa, squash and squash. It is permissible to plant garlic after berry bushes. Not so desirable, but possible precursors are tomatoes, cabbage, cucumbers, peppers, pumpkin.

If we talk about a specific list of crops that are good predecessors of garlic, then it must necessarily include grain crops that are green manure (with the exception of barley and oats), forage grasses (alfalfa, clover and others), legumes (beans and peas), pumpkin, squash and squash, cucumbers, early and cauliflower, as well as berries. You can plant such a plant after eggplants, peppers, tomatoes, cabbage, varieties of which have medium and late ripening periods. These are not great, but quite acceptable predecessors for garlic in your garden.

Novice gardeners are interested in what kind of crop should not be planted in their garden? It is better not to plant this cultivated plant after vegetables. Since during their growth and development, they manage to take many useful elements from the soil. The bad predecessors can be safely attributed to such vegetable crops as cabbage, potatoes, carrots, beets, tomatoes, radishes, radishes. For example, carrots tend to greatly deplete the soil, using the obtained useful elements for their own development.

And if you plant garlic after potatoes and beets, there is a great risk that the culture will get sick with fusarium. The same list also includes onions. He provokes a calcium deficiency in the soil, since he himself uses it in significant quantities. Even after the onion, other plants run the risk of being affected by pests remaining in the ground. Therefore, green, fragrant, onion, shallots and batun are banned as predecessors. Between plantings of the garlic itself, it is required to strictly withstand 3 to 4 years. Otherwise, the harvest will be not only meager, but also sick.

Nuances you need to know when planting garlic

In addition to the good and bad precursors of garlic, other conventions are also important, the observance of which is required when cultivating it on the site.
Among them is the choice of the landing site. Since the culture is very fond of a large amount of light, you need to choose an appropriate place in the garden. Then you can really get big and tasty prongs. When this is not possible, landing in a shaded area should be carried out with a more rare landing.

You can not add manure to the soil, as some inexperienced gardeners do. Otherwise, you can get loose heads and many leaves. The plant responds gratefully to the introduction of high-quality humus. Since garlic still needs a fairly fertile land.

Pay attention to the selection of planting material. You can not plant those specimens that are taken from the garden with pests. Choose viable, large bulbs.

There should be no dark fragments or any damaged areas on the surface of the teeth. Disinfection is also required. It is recommended to use a solution of copper sulfate, placing the teeth in it for no more than half an hour.

Strawberries and strawberries feel great next to garlic. He becomes for them a reliable protector from a possible attack of pests. It can also grow next to tomatoes. But between the garlic and them, a minimum of 65 cm must be left. This is a mutually beneficial neighborhood. Garlic will keep the tomatoes from getting damaged by diseases such as rust. And they, in turn, will be able to protect it from the possible appearance of scab. If the garlic grows near the potato plantings, it will be able to scare off the Colorado beetles.

Adequate watering is required. Drying out of the soil is fraught with crushing of the future harvest. It is advised to use exclusively settled and warm water. Do not forget about weeding and loosening. They need to be done carefully, since there is a high risk of damaging the roots.

It is necessary to make mineral and organic fertilizing. To avoid nitrogen deficiency, a urea solution can be prepared. This requires diluting 1 tablespoon of the product in 10 liters of water. Consumption is no more than 5 liters per square meter of usable area. To prevent the bulbs from starting to rot, you should stop applying fertilizers from the moment the foliage of the crop stops growing.

If your goal is not to obtain seed, you need to remove garlic arrows in time. It is best to pinch them at a distance of about 7 cm from the inflorescences. Do not pull out the arrows by hand so as not to injure the bulbs. Use a pruning shears or garden shears. If cutting is carried out at an early stage of their formation, it is permissible to use a regular kitchen knife. This increases the yield by 20% or more.

Video "Secrets of growing garlic"

In this video, a specialist will tell you about interesting and useful secrets of growing garlic.

When growing garlic on your site, certain rules must be taken into account. For example, to know after which you can plant garlic before winter, and in what cases it is absolutely impossible, how to prepare the soil and choose the optimal planting time to get an early harvest of large, healthy heads. And knowledge is the key to success.

Choosing a seat for landing

Garlic can be planted in spring (spring) and autumn (winter). The most generous harvests are given by winter crops, so many summer residents and gardeners in the fall begin to choose a place for planting a spicy vegetable crop. The question of where to plant garlic is far from idle. In 90% of cases, these will be beds freed from other vegetable and green crops. Some of the precursors to garlic may have the most beneficial effects on growth, health and disease resistance. Others will oppress the plants and spoil the crop even with proper care. It is not for nothing that there are crop rotation rules, and if they are violated, it is not worth hoping for a high-quality harvest.

You cannot plant garlic in one place for 2 years in a row. It can only be planted in the same place after 4-5 years. The root system of the plant is located in the upper layers of the soil, and during the season the culture selects all useful substances from this layer. Subsequent landings will result in weak, sore heads. Therefore, rule number 1 for each gardener should be a constant alternation of plots for planting winter garlic. And rule number 2 - planting must be carried out after good predecessors, contributing to the improvement of plant viability and resistance to adverse factors. The question after which crops the garlic grows better needs to be given close attention.

Good predecessors

Crops preceding garlic should leave the substances necessary for its development in the soil, loosen the soil with roots and enrich it with organic matter. The length of the roots also matters. Garlic feeds from the surface layer of the earth. If plants with long roots grew before him, then they chose useful substances from deeper layers. Moreover, the long roots loosened up the entire soil. As a result, the soil became more permeable to water and air, and nutrients moved to the surface layer. Therefore, the best precursors for garlic are cereals, excluding barley and oats. Their stems and leaves enrich the earth with organic matter, and the roots, penetrating deep into the earth, loosen it and do not affect the substances in the surface layer.

After which you can plant garlic if there are no grain crops in the garden? The second place in the ranking of good predecessors is occupied by cucumbers, zucchini and squash. They also have long roots. The listed vegetables cannot harm the garlic plantings, because they have different diseases and pests.

Another group of good predecessors is vegetable nightshade (excluding potatoes and eggplants): tomatoes, bell peppers.

Experienced gardeners recommend planting a spicy crop after strawberries and strawberries, and even better planting garlic and strawberries together. Such neighbors only help each other: the garlic smell scares away the pests of strawberries, and the berry culture generously shares with the neighbor all the mineral and organic fertilizers that are used to feed it.

White cabbage and cauliflower, pumpkin, legumes (peas and beans), radish, root celery and all kinds of greens - dill, cilantro, parsley will not harm the garlic heads.

Bad predecessors

And now you can move on to the question, after which it is not recommended to plant garlic. It is worth listing the vegetable crops that will adversely affect the state of garlic crops.

You need to start with the bow. Both onions and garlic belong to the same family and are prone to the same diseases and pests. They all need potassium and other similar nutrients. All onions - sweet, shallots, onions, fragrant, green - are dangerous for winter garlic. The situation is the same as if the garlic was planted in the previous place. Therefore, never plant them one after another. If this situation cannot be avoided, sow the area between plantings with vicia savita peas. The planted peas will disinfect, loosen and nourish the earth.

General risks of diseases in garlic with eggplants, and they deplete the surface layer. Therefore, an eggplant bed will not work as a predecessor.

Minimize the spicy vegetable crop prior to carrots and beets. After carrots, there are no nutrients left in the soil for the garlic heads, and after beet planting, like after potatoes, they can get fusarium. But many gardeners plant garlic cloves most often after harvesting potatoes. This is not recommended. Potatoes are a poor precursor, and good harvests of garlic are difficult to obtain, even with diligent care.

Growing secrets

It is still not enough to choose the right crops for planting garlic after which a rich harvest. It would be good if the cleaned and dug garden bed rest for 2-3 weeks before planting the garlic before winter. And they plant it from the end of October to the middle of November. Plants have time to take root before the onset of frost, and in spring they grow violently.

To grow large heads of garlic, it must be borne in mind that this is a light-loving culture that prefers light, nutritious soil. Garlic is not planted on acidic soils.

It is known that certain groups of plants have a beneficial effect on each other, and if you plant them in the neighborhood, then the conditions for their growth are significantly improved. Good neighbors for garlic are carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, leeks, radishes, beets, and lettuce. Neighborhood with peas, cabbage, beans and perennial onions is unacceptable. When planning a crop rotation of garlic, this point should be taken into account.

Novice gardeners are wondering whether it is possible to add manure when digging a site for planting garlic cloves. No, manure is not applied. The result can be deplorable - you get small, loose garlic heads with a violent green mass. In addition, the planted garlic will be more susceptible to fungal diseases. It is better to grow the previous crops with manure - cucumbers and zucchini. Then their harvest will be generous, and the necessary nutrients will remain for the garlic. When digging a future garlic bed, you can add a mixture of mineral fertilizers and humus to the ground (for each m² - 1 tablespoon of ammonium nitrate, superphosphate and potassium chloride, and ½ a bucket of humus).

Experienced vegetable growers use this technique when growing garlic heads: they sow the vacated areas with siderates - grain crops or forage grasses such as clover and alfalfa. For garlic, mustard is a good green manure. When the crops grow by 15-20 cm, the plot is dug up with them. The soil is saturated with useful substances and disinfected, after which winter garlic can be planted. Another advantage of cereals is that they clog the weeds.

Make it a rule to plan the planting of vegetable crops, taking into account, after which this or that vegetable grows better. This will significantly save time, effort and money for processing the site and significantly increase the yield of vegetables.

You will rarely meet a person who does not like garlic that is specifically spicy, with a strong smell. Moreover, this vegetable spice is incredibly healthy. For gardeners, garlic is one of the most picky in the care and cultivation of garden crops.

Planting garlic

Garlic is planted mainly in the fall. And this is justified by several factors. Firstly, it guarantees an early harvest in spring, which is important when a person's immunity is weakened and the body needs to replenish its vitamin reserves in order to resist viral and colds.

Secondly, early garlic is valued for the fact that the autumn planting contributes to the formation of the most developed and strong plants. Thirdly, the springtime for the gardener is a lot of trouble, so there is no point in putting off until spring what can be done in the fall.
In order for the garlic heads to grow large, with a pronounced pungent taste, they should be planted in sunny places in the garden. In addition, the culture prefers loamy, not very heavy, as well as well-fertilized sandy loam soils.

Why Garlic Precursors Should Be Considered

In addition to the basic methods and rules of planting, the reproduction of garlic, there is another factor that is very important for obtaining a good harvest - the predecessors of garlic, that is, those garden plants and garden crops that grew in the previous season in this place.

If you do not take this issue with full responsibility, then you can not expect an indicative yield of this crop with minimal costs of auxiliary means (fertilizers for the soil, special chemicals for preventive treatment of plants from pests and diseases). If you plant garlic in the right place, then treatment from harmful insects and specific diseases may not be required at all. This is due to the fact that after certain horticultural crops, similar pests accumulate in the soil and identical diseases develop, and the amount of active substances that inhibit the development of plants also increases.
Vegetables that are grown in a certain area of ​​the garden need a complex of chemical compounds and organics inherent in this particular culture that are in fertile soil for full development and growth. As a result, at the end of the harvesting season, the soil is depleted, and it is logical that next season it will be uncomfortable for crops that need just such a complex of nutrients - they simply will not be enough.

In order to plant the right seasonal crop and achieve a decent harvest, you need to be sure that the predecessor plants are among the favorable ones. Otherwise, a break is made, and other plants are planted in this section of the garden to restore the rich composition of the soil. Such a change will ensure the success of the annual planting and the receipt of a large number of full-fledged vegetables.
There are exceptions to this rule. For example, tomatoes, strawberries, beans are allowed to be planted in the same beds for several years in a row, because this does not impair the quality of fertile soil for these garden plants.
As for garlic, there are some features that are known to experienced gardeners and gardeners. So, after harvesting onions, garlic cannot be planted on these beds. By the way, in this case, the point is that both plants have an equally short root system. This means that during development and maturation, they consume food from the same soil layer. It is best that garlic precursors have long rhizomes. About other features a little further.

The choice of garden crops-predecessors for the subsequent planting of garlic

When the area of ​​the garden is large enough, you can afford not to save space and allocate separate beds for planting garlic in a well-lit place. If the garden is small, then the ideal option would be to "add" garlic to a garden with strawberries. These two plants are quite compatible, they will not interfere with each other in development, and each of them has enough nutrients in the soil for the entire season, until the very harvest.
In all other cases, it is necessary to choose a planting site for the garlic, taking into account its predecessors. The best precursors for garlic are cereals, excluding oats and barley. These plants are green manure, which enrich the chemical composition of the soil, its fertility. The leaves and stems of green manure become a good organic fertilizer for the garden, and the roots bind, strengthen or loosen the soil (depending on the type of soil), promote the penetration of oxygen and moisture. This has a noticeable positive effect on garlic cultivation.
In addition to cereals, excellent precursors of garlic are winter crops specially planted as fresh food for domestic animals (clover, alfalfa and others), as well as squash. Garlic grows quite well in the beds after cucumbers, especially if they were previously harvested for garden berries.

• plant garlic in the garden where carrots used to grow, as it draws out all the nutrients and trace elements from the soil, emptying it and making it useless for growing any garden crops, including garlic;
• plant garlic in the beds that were previously occupied with potatoes or beets;
• plant garlic in place of onions, since onions can infect the soil and the entire future harvest with family diseases;
• plant garlic after radishes, eggplants, as they also greatly deplete the earth.

They categorically cannot be the predecessors of garlic: garlic, onions, carrots, beets.
So what are the characteristics of crops that affect the full development and productivity of garlic?
"Good" precursors of garlic in the garden, such as green manure, peas and other legumes, early, pumpkin, during their development enrich the soil with organic matter or simply consume other trace elements than those required by garlic. Therefore, after them, our favorite spice is comfortable in the beds.
But onions and some other root crops need a significant amount of potassium (as well as garlic), therefore, they are considered unacceptable predecessor crops, leaving behind almost "empty" soil.

Special conditions for growing garlic

It is not always possible to adhere to all the rules exactly. Therefore, there is an original way to "get out". Experienced gardeners advise, as an option, to sow vetch on this plot immediately after harvesting the garlic, after which (towards the end of September) it is good to dig up the ground, deepening the vetch into it, and then fertilize it with compost at the rate of a couple of buckets per square meter of plot.
It is also advisable to apply fertilizers rich in potassium and phosphorus. You can replace them with regular wood ash. Garden vetch, like all legumes, loosens the soil, saturating it with oxygen and moisture. In addition, it forms a large amount of nitrogen in the soil, while simultaneously disinfecting it from harmful microorganisms.

Precursors of winter garlic

Garlic is planted in the ground in the spring or, more often, in the fall. Spring planting is spring planting, and autumn planting is called winter planting. Distinctive features of winter varieties are arrows with inflorescences, a large underground bulb, many cloves, a characteristic shape and color of the covering scales.

For winter garlic, neutral loamy, nitrogen-enriched soils are distinguished. The best predecessors of winter garlic are early cabbage of all varieties, pumpkin, beans and garden herbs. In no case should you grow garlic in the beds where garlic or onions grew, at least earlier than four years later.
In principle, all recommendations are quite simple and easy to remember. If you know in advance the desirable precursors of garlic, the elementary conditions for caring for the plant, the recommendations of professional gardeners, the time of planting and harvesting, then you can get large heads of full-fledged, spicy, aromatic and healthy garlic every year, add it to a variety of dishes for your families.
By following these tips, you can grow an enviable harvest and enjoy the spicy taste of your favorite garlic all year round.

Planting garlic at the dacha before winter has a certain share of risk, for the reason that even the smallest piece of land is never empty in the garden. It is important to figure out what was grown on the site before the sown garlic, whether it is worth planting it after a certain predecessor.

Depending on the climatic zone, garlic planting before winter can be carried out at the end of September - mid-November.

After that, it is allowed to plant garlic, but in case of growth of which plants it is not worth it? This knowledge will help you grow a good harvest of high-quality garlic in your summer cottage.

Benefit from the right predecessor

Any crops that gardeners prefer to grow take from the ground the maximum amount of all nutrients necessary for full growth. After a certain period, soil reserves are gradually depleted, therefore it becomes risky to plant the next plant in this territory - will it have enough nutrients, minerals and fertilizers for a full harvest.

There are also those crops that easily restore useful soil reserves. In this case, it is possible to prevent the complete depletion of the soil at the summer cottage.

Almost every gardener knows the fact that growing one crop in a certain area is not recommended. This is a common rule of thumb for regular garlic too. Exceptions to these recommendations apply to potatoes, strawberries, tomatoes, and beans.

Which precursors of garlic are significantly better? You can give preference to those plants in which the long root prevails. This is easy to explain: garlic has short roots, therefore, during growth, it actively uses minerals and fertilizers from the topsoil. Therefore, in front of this culture, it is better to actively grow options that take nutrition deeper in the soil and do not interfere with normally growing garlic for the winter.

You can apply special organic fertilizers that will be relevant during the cultivation of the predecessors. Because for the winter and before the direct planting of garlic in the fall, they are not recommended to be introduced into the soil. What predecessors should you pay attention to?

The best place to plant garlic will be the area where cucumbers or zucchini grew, and where organic fertilizers were used

Which predecessor is really the best? The most ideal and pleasant for the soil are all cereals, except for the well-known barley and oats. They are able to raise the quality of the soil, saturate it with extremely useful components and minerals.

You can plant crops and grass before planting - any clover, alfalfa. It is better to plant zucchini and squash of different varieties on the site. If you want to plant garlic for the winter where the berry fields used to be, you can safely start the process of planting the seed.

Can you plant garlic after homemade peppers? With a stretch, but still possible, because pepper is not characterized by a strong depletion of the soil. For the winter, garlic can easily be planted after growing such crops: tomatoes, pumpkins, peppers, cabbage. All of these options are characterized by a high demand for nitrogen.

Ratings

There are better plants and acceptable ones, but they are not the worst for harvesting home-made quality garlic. Ideal options to plant before winter garlic:

• Cereal crops.
• Forage crops - grasses.
• Patissons.
• Legume crops.
• Pumpkin.
• Berries.
• Cucumbers.
• Cauliflower.

Garlic feels good after zucchini and their closest "relatives" - squash

Other plants:

• Different types of cabbage.
• Tomatoes are red or yellow.
• Sweet table peppers.
• Eggplant.

In addition to pepper and other cultures, completely unusual variations are also relevant. You can add cloves to strawberries or strawberries. These berries get along perfectly with neighboring plants, and garlic will serve them as some kind of protection from various believers. For the winter, this planting option can be called ideal.

What not to plant?

After which it is better not to plant garlic for the long winter? It is not necessary to plant the plant after several known crops. Carrots deplete the soil very much, so after it they try not to plant different plants that bring a bountiful harvest. After carrots, the earth needs a long rest.

It is strictly forbidden to plant garlic after different varieties of onions, because it consumes large quantities of potassium, which depletes the fertile land. Potatoes and beets are also not suitable from the perspective of the predecessor, because after growing them in even a well-groomed garden bed, garlic can easily be affected by Fusarium.

Between the planned plantings of homemade garlic in your summer cottage, you need to maintain a period of three to four years, otherwise you risk getting a very weak or completely diseased crop. Often in this case, the plant is severely affected by the destructive and dangerous stem nematode, which destroys the crop.

It is recommended to correctly and carefully observe the crop rotation. In this case, the gardener can count on an absolutely healthy and rich harvest of a plant planted for the winter. It is important to find a good place with a lot of sun. There should be no stagnation of water on the site, then the plant will be able to receive a balanced climate that favorably affects the harvest.

Carefully consider the choice of predecessors for growing a good, high-quality yield indicator. Then you can count on a really bountiful harvest without diseases and pests.

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During the summer, in the garden, as a rule, absolutely all the beds are occupied. Therefore, before planting garlic in the fall, the question arises, where is it better to plant it. Which predecessors are acceptable for him and which are not. If you know certain rules, it will be much easier to grow good garlic.

Why is it important to choose the right predecessor

Each crop grown in the beds takes a lot of nutrients from the soil that it needs for growth and development. Every year, the reserves of these useful components in the soil are decreasing. When planting new crops, we cannot be sure whether there are enough substances in the soil for their growth. But there are crops that replenish these reserves. Thanks to them, we can prevent the depletion of the earth.

All experienced gardeners know that it is not recommended to grow the same crop from year to year on the same beds. The same rule should be followed in the case of garlic. But there are exceptions: potatoes, tomatoes, strawberries, and beans.

It is recommended to grow garlic after crops that have a longer root system. They will take substances from a greater depth, and useful components for garlic, which have shallow roots, will remain in the upper layers. When growing previous crops, it is also recommended to apply organic fertilizers.

Any grains can be planted in front of the garlic, except oats and barley. These plants improve the quality of the soil, enrich it. Alfalfa or clover can be planted before planting the garlic. Garlic will grow very well on an area where berry bushes were previously grown.

It is perfectly acceptable to plant garlic after pepper as well. It does not drain the earth much. The following crops are ideal plants after which you can get a good harvest of garlic:

• Cucumbers;
• Various berries;
• Legumes and pumpkin;
• Zucchini;
• Cereals.

It is allowed to plant garlic after cabbage, tomatoes, and also eggplants. You can add it to strawberries, it will protect the berry from many pests. It will be the perfect neighborhood.

Unsuccessful predecessors

It is not recommended to plant garlic after carrots. It is known to greatly impoverish the soil, taking away a lot of nutrients from it. It is not recommended to plant any other plants after this culture. The land after carrots requires feeding and rest.

After the onion, you don't need to plant garlic either. It depletes the soil, taking a large amount of potassium from it.

Planting garlic where potatoes and beets have recently been grown can lead to fusarium infections. Therefore, they are also unsuccessful predecessors for this culture.

Between plantings of garlic in a summer cottage, it is simply necessary to observe breaks lasting about 3-4 years. Otherwise, the harvest will be very weak, the cloves will be diseased. After all, there is a high risk of injury from stem nematode, which is very dangerous and destructive for garlic.

It is extremely important to monitor compliance with crop rotation on the site. This is one of the main conditions for obtaining a good harvest, not only for garlic, but also for most other crops. The site for garlic must be chosen sunny, the water on it should not stagnate.

Choosing the right predecessors before planting the garlic in the fall will ensure you get a good harvest. The plant will be less susceptible to disease and will not suffer from pests. It is not difficult to follow these recommendations, for this you do not need to make any efforts, you just need to remember these simple rules.