Comanche Leeks 6 pack
Plant Size Guide
Comanche Leeks
Allium Porrum
days to maturity: 105 days
plant spacing: 6-12 per square foot
sunlight requirements: 8-14 hours hours
look out for: hill your plant to get longer blanched area
harvest notes: can be harvested anytime, the longer you wait the larger it will be
annual
Leeks definitely can be grown in our climate (we wouldn’t sell them if that wasn’t the case!) but they, like many other onion family plants, prefer the cold, which means they are a smidge harder to get right down here. Planting your leeks properly is a great first step to success… you’ll want to make a deep hole with a pencil or pen (this is called dibbling if you’d like to research it) and drop the leek in bare rooted. only about 1 inch of the plant should be sticking out after planting. This is your first step to getting a nice long blanched center to your leek. Through its 100+ day growing season you’ll want to hill up soil around the growing leek 2-3 times, to continue the blanching process and make the white center stem even longer. Leeks can be harvested anytime so if you think you’ll want to harvest yours young you can plant them closer together and squeeze up to 12 in a square foot. If you’d like them to reach large mature size slowly thin to 6 plants and allow those to use the space to mature. Once you’ve taken the time and effort to grow yourself leeks don’t waste the green tops! Save them for use in broths and stews instead. While the technical days to maturity for leeks is around 100 we noticed we tend to leave ours in way longer than that because they are very slow growers. If you plant these in the fall don't expect to harvest them fully grown until spring. And definitely use this information to decide whether or not you have the space in your garden for a full season crop like leeks.
We sell this variety as a pack of 6 small plants.
Delivery Details
Delivery Details
When you place your order we head into our greenhouse to select the very best plants we have in stock for your garden. We label them with handwritten compostable wooden labels and pack them in recyclable boxes to keep them safe on their journey. Our delivery partners, Roadie, take it from there and head to the Redlands to pick up your order. Communication and tracking take place via Roadie and your driver will leave your plants in a safe and covered area.
Plant Care
Plant Care
When your plant delivery arrives, make sure you water your new plants thoroughly with a light spray of water (none of this thumb over the hose stuff). We recommend planting them within 10 days of receiving them. If you do intent to wait to plant them, we recommend placing them in a shallow reservoir (like a baking pan) and filling it with half an inch of water so they can drink the water from below while you are at work and place them in an area with plenty of sun. When planting in your garden always add a dash of Organic granular fertilizer, and give them extra water during their first week in their new home, while they adjust. We recommend disturbing the root ball as little as possible during planting.
About Our Plants
About Our Plants
All of our plants are grown in OMRI certified Organic materials (potting mix, fertilizer, seeds, etc.) and include Organic granular fertilizer, living locally-made compost, and have been cared for with healthy microorganisms from compost tea and microbial inoculants. We only use organic pesticides when needed. We only stock varieties that we have experience growing and that are season and climate appropriate for South Florida. Our curated inventory is simple enough for a beginner and interesting enough to keep an advanced gardeners attention, with new and rare varieties being added weekly.
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