How I grew leeks. Photos and recommendations

All my family, and I myself, give preference to tasty and healthy food. We love vegetables, fruits, and also greens - we put them in almost every dish, but most of all we love leeks. It is almost impossible to find this vegetable in our market, only in supermarkets, but the concepts of “supermarket” and “healthy food” are not compatible, therefore, we grow it ourselves

For the first time, I had the desire to grow this vegetable when I saw leeks in a photo in a magazine. It was so bright and juicy that I immediately wanted to try it.

Preparing soil and seeds for planting leeks

We plant leeks in our garden as seedlings. We begin preparing seeds for seedlings around mid-March. First, soak them for 20 minutes in hot water (the temperature should be about 50 degrees). Then we wash the seeds well, wrap them in a damp cloth and soak them. After a week, the seeds should be removed and slightly dried. Now they can be sown.

We sow the seeds at a distance of about 2 centimeters from each other. If you want to grow a juicy and beautiful product, then you should monitor the air temperature and soil moisture in which our future onions grow. The temperature around our plant during the day should be 18-20° C, at night - 14-15°.

You can plant onions in the beds after 50 days. The soil must be well fertilized with compost. You can also add a half liter jar of ash and 2 liter jars of wet sawdust.Mineral fertilizers are a must, we add urea. Then the whole vinaigrette is dug up to a depth of about 20 cm. Then grooves should be made, 12 cm deep. They should be dug at a distance of about 25 centimeters from each other.

Planting and caring for leeks

We cut off the root and leaves of our sprouts by about one third. Then plant in the dug grooves. The distance between seedlings is 15 cm. After planting, leeks should not be watered for three days. Then the watering scheme is as follows: the seedlings are watered once every five days, with the calculation of 15 liters of water per cubic meter of land. 20 days after planting, do not forget to feed your onion with fertilizers. You can, again, use urea, mullein, superphosphate.

That's all. Now all you have to do is reap the fruits of your labor. Do you see the leeks in the photo? Do you want your family to get all the vitamins that this plant contains? You already know how to grow this crop.