planting leeks

hello I did a search but couldnt find any information on this.

I have planted leeks in cardboard tubes and they are now about 6inches high but very thin. They are in an unheated outhouse with clear plastic roof partially heated as the central heating pipes run through but it feels cold out there.

My partner has been building me a series of terraced deep beds as our garden is on a huge slope. Could I plant them out put some corrugated plastic over the top of a bed. Just wondering what it is safe to do.

I have six raised beds 5 feet square planted up so far and only the garlic and onions are poking through as yet.

Sorry for sounding so anxious. I m seriously keen and energetic for digging weeding and composting, but so unconfident about growing.

By the way not too worried about frosts as I live on a cliff edge by the sea and we seem to be very temperate.

 

Hi lapod,do you mean to cover the soil and cut holes through the plastic,or to put the plastic over the whole raised bed?I think if you do the latter,it will just make the leeks grow taller and spindly,as they search for the light.Once a seedling is through the soil its usual to remove any cover.Plus the fact that seeing as you live on a cliff edge,you will probably have a chew keeping any cover in place?My leeks are still in an unheated greenhouse and they`ll stay there until they`re pencil thick.

 

Thanks for that I was thinkign of a piece of rigid corrugated plastic to keep them warmer.
but it sounds good to keep them till they are as thick as a pencil
Thanks.
the garden itself is quite sheltered with a cliff behind it and a tallish hedge onthe west side and a barn to the north