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- Cut leek or dig up? - So you reap right
- Two-time summerlubber harvest
- Excavate winter vines
- So you harvest long, creamy leeks
- Tips & Tricks
Cut leek or dig up? - So you reap right
The leek variety determines the time of harvest. Harvesting leeks is not difficult. If you consider the following factors, the plant may thrive twice a season with some luck.
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If leeks are seeded in the winter behind glass and planted in spring, they are ready for harvest after 5 to 6 months. Since the botanical turbo has been planted from June to October, prudent amateur gardeners use this phase for a second harvest:
Only in the context of the second harvest cycle do you dig out the summer livers completely. Ideally, in time for the first frost.
Excavate winter vines
Winter-hardy leek is ready for harvest throughout the cold season. Get it fresh from the bed if you want to enjoy the winter 'vitamin prince'. Since there are no signs of slow leeks at this time of the year, the harvest is now as follows:
This harvesting technique has the advantage that the nitrate content in leeks drops significantly. In addition, you recognize in the afternoon rather a possible worm infestation.
So you harvest long, creamy leeks
If leeks come on the table, they all reach for the creamy-white parts of the plant. No wonder, because they taste wonderfully delicate and aromatic. Hobby gardeners are therefore anxious to plant leeks with long, white shafts. How to do the trick:
Piling is one of the traditional working methods in leek cultivation. They push a small wall of earth and mulch around each bar. The better a shoot is protected from light, the more pale and tender it thrives.
Tips & Tricks
The up to 150 cm deep leek roots enrich the Bodengare with many nutrients. Resourceful hobby gardeners do not leave the valuable soil unused and bring out lamb's lettuce or pickle salad as under-sowing. Carrots and early potatoes in postculture also benefit from the nutritious beet that leeks always leave behind.