How to Plant Leeks

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Leek culture
-Sow leeks indoors in late winter for fall harvest. Start more leeks in August for spring harvest.
-Grow them in soil that has plenty of compost and nitrogen.
-Don’t let leeks lack for water.
-Once leeks start growing, hill them up every 2 weeks to get more of the white part.

Watering well is important. I soak my beds twice a week. Leeks that suffer from lack of moisture grow unevenly, and have a stronger taste and pithier texture.

Отсюда!
И здесь!
Sow: Staring sowing indoors in February.
Continue outdoors in April, 2cm deep.
Soil: Work in plenty of well-rotted manure the previous
autumn.
Sun: Full sun.
Grow: Harden off well before planting out, when 20cm high.

My crop rotation.

CROP ROTATION PLOT 1
Peas / mangetout

CROP ROTATION PLOT 2
Broccoli Sprouting - Sprouting
Calabrese
Kale
Mustard
Spinach
Swede
Swiss Chard
Turnips

CROP ROTATION PLOT 3
Potatoes

CROP ROTATION PLOT 4
Beetroot
Celery
Garlic
Leeks
Parsnips

ANYWHERE / PERMANENT
Asparagus
Courgettes
Cucumbers - ridge
Squashes and pumpkins
Lettuce
Radish
Rhubarb

Crop rotation .

Crop rotation / Royal Horticultural Society:
Divide your vegetable garden or allotment into sections of equal size (depending on how much of each crop you want to grow), plus an extra section for perennial crops, such as rhubarb and asparagus. Group your crops as below:

Brassicas: Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, kohl-rabi, oriental greens, radish, swede and turnips
Legumes: Pea, broad beans (French and runner beans suffer from fewer soil problems and can be grown wherever convenient)
Onions: Onion, garlic, shallot, leek
Potato family: Potato, tomato, (pepper and aubergine suffer from fewer problems and can be grown anywhere in the rotation)
Roots: Beetroot, carrot, celeriac, celery, Florence fennel, parsley, parsnip and all other root crops, except swedes and turnips, which are brassicas

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Во саду ли, в огороде.

- The most popular veggie that people grow in their gardens is tomatoes. Then cucumbers, then bell peppers.
- If you grow the veggie for its leaves (spinach, lettuce, kale) you need partial shade. Everything else can use full sun.
- Carrots hate to grow near strawberries. Beets like to grow near anything. And more.
- An easy way to practice crop rotation: for each area of your garden choose root, fruit, or leaf. Swap them each year. So the root section would grow onions, carrots, etc; fruit would grow broccoli, bell peppers, etc; and leaf would grow all greens.

Crop Rotation.

MOnty Don recomended 4 in the order of
Manure
Potatoes
Beans
Barassicas
Roots
Manure

The idea being that potatoes are a hungry crop and take a lot out of the soil so you give it a boost in the autumn befor planting.
The beans put in nitrogen that the following brassicas enjoy and the roots bulk up rather than put on top growth before manuring again.
But in a perfect world you've got loads of space fopr this.
With limited space I've found that I need to follow the new potatoes with winter brassicas and leeks while the rest of the plot is doing the summer beans, sweetcorn, salads etc. Crop Rotation... 3 or 4?

A rotation cycle for your families of veg.

from here

Севооборот.

Crop Rotation in the Vegetable Garden

Дачный севооборот - ДАЧНИЦА

В условиях дачного участка для соблюдения севооборота рационально поступить следующим образом. Огородный участок разбивают на 3 части,
- в первой части огорода размещают картофель,
- во второй - капусту, огурец, тыкву, кабачок,
- в третьей - помидор, лук, свеклу, морковь, петрушку, фасоль, горох.

Rotation plan

A good four-year rotation plan is Pots, Legs, Bras and Roots, or
Year 1 - potatoes;
Year 2 - peas and beans (legumes);
Year 3 - the cabbage family (brassicas) and
Year 4 - roots.

It recommends that you divide crops into four main groups as follows:

Legumes: French beans, peas, runner beans, broad beans
Root vegetables: radish, carrot, potato, onion, garlic, beetroot, swede, sweet potato, shallots
Leafy greens: spinach, chard, kale, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, spinach
Fruit-bearing: tomato, sweetcorn, cucumber, squash, pumpkin, courgette, aubergine

Green manure | Plants | Gardening Blog | Talk | BBC Gardeners' World

Green manure | Plants | Gardening Blog | Talk | BBC Gardeners' World: "There are a few green manures to sow now, suitable for a range of soil types:

1. Grazing rye (Secale cereale) improves soil structure. Sow from August to November and dig in the following spring.

2. Winter field bean (Vicia faba) is good nitrogen fixer for heavy soils. Sow from September to November.

3. Mustard (Sinapis alba) is a brassica, so should not be followed by other brassicas in your crop rotation, as this can lead to the build up of diseases such as club root. Gardeners in the south can still sow it now, but those up north should wait until spring.

4. Red clover (Trifolium pratense) is good for loamy soils and fixes nitrogen. Its flowers are a great food source for bumblebees. Again, gardeners down south can probably get away with sowing it now, those up north should sow winter beans instead."