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  • From: Jerry and Marienne <kreitlow AT cmgate.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] garlic rotation
  • Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:30:21 -0500

I don't know that there's a bad place in rotation for garlic as long as the soil is nitrogen rich, drains well, and isn't too sandy. I've read that one shouldn't plant it where there is any indication of fusarium, but I've never seen it on our farm, so I can't say. For the same reason, I've heard it recommended not to follow grass family crops, which are prone to fusarium. But, many garlic growers, including me, mulch with grasses like oat straw (I use chopped cornstalks).

I suppose intensely planted garlic will deplete nitrogen, but probably nothing that some manure/compost won't remedy.

I've only been growing garlic four years now (1/4 - 1/3 acre), and haven't planted it in the same place twice - and probably won't for the foreseeable future.

Our planting, too, has been hampered by wet conditions, and time is getting short up here. Praying for dry!

Jerry Ford
Howard Lake, MN
zone 3/4





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