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Re[2]: Root crops, hilling leeks

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Hello Kim,

On 27-Jun-99, you wrote:

> Do you hill your leeks, so you'll get a nice long white leek part (the
> tender part)?  This brings to mind a problem I had last year growing
> leeks.  How do people effectively grow crops that need to be hilled in a
> square foot garden.  You can't start growing the leeks 8 inches below
> the rest of the garden and if you mound it on top the dirt just gets
> washed away from around the part you're trying to blanch.  Any ideas?
> 

As we are small commercial growers we do not use strictly sqft methods
but everything is in raised beds.  When planting leeks I have an old
spade handle that I have sharpened to a point and use as a dibbler making
a hole for each leek plant about six to ten inches deep in which the 
leek is dropped into and watered but the hole is not filled in. As the
plant grows, with rainfall, watering and (I suppose) gravity the hole
gradually fills in and then later the soil is mounded around each plant
by about another inch or so.


Regards,
  Noel.

-- 
Noel & Paula Jackson
Organic Growers of Strawberries & Other Produce at
NATURE'S ACRES,
Taradale Rd., Dannevirke, New Zealand.
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