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The cultivation system with cover crops as living mu lches is growing in importance in the worldwide agriculture as it combines an economical effect with pro -ec logical and soil protecting activities. The pla nt species tested in the research were not frost resistant : buckwheat, millet, white mustard and berseem clover . A control were the plots without cover crops. The inte rcrops were sown in the first decade of August, in autumn a grown biomass was a living mulch, and after be ing damaged by frost in spring, the mulch was covering ground surface. Winter garlic bulbs were plant ed in grown biomass of cover plants, in the first de cade of September. In the first decade of November and in the first decade of April, the selected soil parame ters were determined in the soil layer of 0–10 cm: actual soil moisture (%), soil bulk density (Mg · m ), total porosity (%) and water stability of soil aggregates (%). The harvest of garlic was conducted in the firs t decade of July. Cover crop...