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Transcript: So here friends are the best ways to avoid the most common mistakes that people make when they’re growing garlic, and they’ll help minimize pests disease and increase your storage life. You’ll have so much more abundance, and here they are. So without first, first things first plant seed stock, preferably organic, certified nematode free and seed stock is really different from eating stock, which is what you’ll find at a grocery store at a farmers market. Planting seed stock will ensure a suite of other things will not befall you.
Another thing you want to put three to five years in between your Allium crops in your garden if at all possible. And granted that rotation is really a necessity if you’re growing say more than 100 bulbs of garlic. If you’re growing less than 100 bulbs of garlic, it’s probably not such a big deal. But if you can possibly avoid planting garlic where you just grew your onions or just grew your leeks or just your shallots or garlic the year before and put three to five years is the dream in planting garlic in the same place only three to five years apart that will go so far in minimizing any diseases that might be accumulating in your soil.
Another good thing you want to be sure to ensure good drainage. If you have great draining soil, well drained soil, plenty of sun, good fertility, all of a sudden you have much healthier garlic much bigger garlic much better storing garlic, garlic would rather be dry than to wet any day. So ensure that you have a minimal amount of excess moisture in your garden and you will allay so many other diseases and everything including your garlic and also keep your eyes open and just scout for disease. You know some of prevention is the best cure and if you notice something while it’s a little off before it’s way off. Hopefully you can catch it and maybe you will have to sacrifice that one bulb but it won’t take down your entire crop. So be on the lookout for unusual things and feel free to send us all photographs of what you find if you see anything unusual and that will go so far.
And my final little tip is to feed abundant nutrients but balanced nutrients. Yes, garlic is a heavy feeder. But garlic if you have too much nitrogen, you’re going to have way more leaf way less bulb and way less storage life. So be sure that you’re feeding your garlic abundantly, but not too much nitrogen, and there you have it friends, those are the most common thing is that people don’t do that create all kinds of havoc in their garlic growing. But follow those things, and you will be surrounded by brilliant, brilliant and beautiful and abundant garlic for years to come.
