Growing leeks is a profitable business, t. To. This rather unpretentious culture gives high yields.Cultivated plants are usually fertile loose soil with a high moisture content, but the land with acidic crop is not given.The soil for the plants must be prepared in the fall by making an average of four kilograms of manure, 35 g of superphosphate and 17 g of potassium chloride per square meter for future landings.
Growing leeks spring starts with additional soil fertilizer ammonium nitrate (average 25 g) and urea (about 17 grams) per square meter.meter.Then, in mid-May, when the soil is well warmed, it can be planted leeks in the open ground on the ridges of sufficient height ordinary way.The optimal distance between the rows - 0.3 m between plants in a row - no less than 0.2 meters, and the depth of planting - 0.1 - 0.15 meters.
Growing leeks can not do without regular loosening soil, weeding weeds, watering and hilling plants.The growing season is about two hundred cultural days, during which the onions have to fertilize a couple of times with a mixture of manure (or poultry manure) and mineral fertilizers.This increases the yield and gives improved palatability.The amounts of nutrients is usually calculated according to the same standards as for the onion varieties.
Growing leeks from seed is usually done in the fall.To do this, at a soil temperature of 1-2 degrees Celsius her dig, fertilize a couple of buckets of compost and 70 grams per square meter nitrophosphate.The plot (or ridges) are aligned and buried seeds to a depth of about 2 cm at a distance of 3 cm from each other.Top seeds need to close humus or peat layer in a couple of centimeters.With sufficient snow cover plants survive the winter well and amicable shoots in winter.Planting is usually carried out in early November or late October.
growing leek seedlings begins two months before transplanting into the ground.Before sowing the seeds are soaked in greenhouses for three days and then buried to a depth of two centimeters between rows at a distance of 0.05 meters.The optimum temperature for germination is the range of 20-22 C, then in the afternoon the temperature can be maintained at 18-20 C and 10-12 C at night.
Growing leeks karantanskogo varieties provides plants with relatively small bulbs that are well kept.Bulgarian same sort of gives a large bleached bulb part, but it can not be sown in the winter because of insufficient tolerability cold.Onion harvest all sorts of selectively begin mid-August, while thinning it.Mass cleaning begins in early October, with the roots of the plants are cut to 2 cm, and the leaves - up to 0.25 meters.Storing the crop is produced in the cellars in the sand, in the form of prikopat.With one square meter you can get within a half - two and a half kilogram stems and greenery.The green leek contains large amounts of vitamin K and manganese, folic acid, magnesium, molybdenum and other essential substances, which makes its use very beneficial for the body.
