Garden in the swamp.

In the country area, which I acquired, the earth threatened weeds, and the groundwater was almost at the surface. Once on the territory of our horticultural partnership, several drainage databases took place, but over time they were stolen, and part of the dackets themselves fell asleep. And the water went to go anywhere.
In a word - swamp. We had no strength, nor the time to do so, as usual do when the abandoned land is mastered: remove the turf, fold it in a bunch
On the edge of the site, wait a couple of years until it processes, and the resulting humus move to the right place. I did otherwise: I made high beds on the "pillow".
On the site allotted under the garden in the direction from the north to the south, a bed of 1 m wide, a length of 4 m and a width of 70 cm wide (it is more convenient to use standard pieces of observer material). According to the planned beds, the starting

fertilizer stock: 1 sq. M. scattered urea (50 g), ammophos and ammonium sulfate (100 g), chloride and sulfate potassium (150 g), iron sulfate (10g), copper sulfate and boric acid (5 g ). Instead of potassium chloride, you can use Calimag (in except potassium contains magnesium), and instead of urea - ammonium nitrate. Such doses of fertilizers are needed only in the GBD of the development of the site, in the future their number I decrease by a third, and the trace elements I put in two or three years. Then it cut off the paths from the tracks and, turning it up with roots up, covered the "beds", as if pillows. As a result, I lifted the soil at 10-15 cm over the level of the site and for 20-25 cm - above the track. On top of the turne, a mixture of weathered peat, loam and sand was laid with a layer 10-15 cm (1: 1: 1 ratio). On the delicates prepared in this way, I made a grinding and sowed carrots, beets, a different greens, and also landed the seedlings of the onion, onions of the replied, zucchini and corn. When the plants have grown, the earth around them, the sidewalls of the beds and the tracks to muffle the stiffening weeds, clicked into peat and sawdust.
The plot for potatoes was somewhat different: on the "pillow" from an inverted turf into two rows with a partial time 50-60 cm laid down the grooved tubers with an interval of 30-35 cm in the row and poured the entire defense with fertile soil. That is, at the same time planted potatoes and raised the level of the bed. Since the summer we have a short one, then the varieties picked up early and medium, preferring resistant to phytoophluorosis. They gave a good crop and were well kept as follows: Elizabeth, bullfinch, magician, laton, the most fruitful among them - Plata. It is very important to select seed potatoes from
The best bushes immediately with you Copf. Even elite seeds purchased in the store or written by mail in the first year, they gave an average of 0.7-1 kg from the bush. And only after the selection of seeds from the best bushes on the second year, he received an average of 1.2-1.5 kg from the bush, the most crops were given 2-2.5 kg. Seed potatoes before storage soaked in garlic nasty (400 g of chopped garlic on 10 liters of water) and landscaping into the light. In the spring potatoes, I tear into the light, I try to ensure the temperature of 18 ° in the first 10-12 days. At this temperature, it grows more stems. And each stem is 5-6 tubers. The size of these tubers depends on the fertility of the soil and availability of moisture. When it approached the time to dip the bushes, part of them had plenty of peat, and the other - sawdust. Potatoes under sawdust so as not to starve, additionally fed up with nitrogen. Wormwall mulching is preferable: weed seeds come across the peat. The differences in the state and yield of plants on different types of mulch I did not notice.
As a result, despite the high level of groundwater and the absence of empty, I got a good harvest of vegetables and potatoes.

Garden on a swamp