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Summer Leek Golem

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Winter half-early leek, suitable for summer and autumn harvests and features large growth. Package contains 300 seeds.

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Leek is a biennial vegetable. In the first year, its usable part grows at a moderate depth or on the soil surface, and only in the second year does it grow into flowering and the seed matures. It grows up to 60cm in height. We can find more than twenty varieties in our region, but many more exist. Leeks can be divided into summer, autumn, and winter varieties. The leek forms a very rich rosette of flat leaves above the bulbous thickened underground stem. The leaves contain a range of minerals, vitamins, and essential substances that give the leek its typical aroma and juiciness.

How to Grow Leeks

  • The soil for growing leeks must be well-worked, loosened to a greater depth than, for example, for onions or lettuce. It requires a bright, sunny location. After planting, gradually hill up the soil to the necks; by the beginning of winter, the strong seedlings are already in ridged furrows. Until the newly planted plants take root, they must be watered abundantly every day. Later, watering is necessary only exceptionally, only during dry weather.

  • Sowing of summer crops is carried out in a greenhouse at the turn of December and January. At a temperature of around 18°C, from a seedling height of 5 cm the temperature can be reduced to 15°C. In April, planting is carried out in beds with spacing of 30×10 cm.

    Sowing of autumn crops is carried out from mid-February to mid-March in a greenhouse. In mid-June, we plant the seedlings in beds.

    All sowings of different crops are carried out to a depth of 1 cm, with spacing of 10×1–2 cm. We plant seedlings that are pencil-sized at the final location.

  • Requires very nutritious, well-loosened soil. Optimal pH 7–7.8.

  • N 100 kg N/ha, of which 50 kg 5 weeks after planting. P 80 kg P2O5/ha, K 200 - 250 kg K2O/ha. Ideally, leeks should be planted after crops fertilized with cow manure.

  • Leeks are threatened by the leek moth (Acrolepiopsis assectella), which lays eggs at the boundary of the underground and above-ground parts. The hatched larvae cause feeding damage in the tissue and degrade it. Against the leek moth, we treat with a spray of Decis EW 50 at a concentration of 0.03%. Similar products are also effective against the less common onion fly.

    Onion downy mildew may also appear. Grey-green spots covered with a greyish coating of mycelium and spores appear on the leaves; in bulbs, the inner scales rot. Protection consists of fungicides with a wetting agent.

  • We harvest leeks 16 to 20 weeks after sowing, but they can remain in harvest maturity for whole months. Leeks are harvested by digging up from summer onwards as needed.

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Data sheet

Growing difficulty
Medium
Growing suitability
Garden cultivation
Purpose
Edible fruits
Sowing Time
jaro
Harvest time
Autumn
Summer
Fruit color
White

Specific References

EAN13
8590383651026
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