Leek: Blue Green Winter Farinto (organic)
Blue Green Winter Farinto Leek seeds (Allium porrum). Organic vegetable seeds from Tamar Organics.
It is a high-quality, winter-hardy leek with blue-green leaves The stems are long and white and have little or no bulb formation making them easy to harvest and clean. Very frost resistant to harvest from December through to early spring.
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Sow in the Allium section of your rotation.
You can sow seeds in modules or trays inside in February and March, but they are very easy to do in a seed bed sown outside during March and April.
Sprinkle the seeds in shallow drills 15cm apart. Keep watered during dry weather. In early Summer when the plants are about 10-15cm tall and about the thickness of a pencil, they are ready to transplant.
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Using a dibber make holes 15-20 cm deep and 15cm apart. Carefully lift the Leek plants and separate them. You can trim the roots by two thirds and the tops of the plant but this is not absolutely necessary. Drop the plants into the holes and fill the hole with water or a weak seaweed solution.
Some soil will fall in to cover the roots but do not refill the holes with soil. The plants will grow and swell filling the hole and be ready to harvest from late Summer to Winter depending on the variety.
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300 seeds
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Tamar Organics are on a mission to encourage people to grow at least some of their own food and to do it organically.
Organic growing helps to protect the environment, improves soil and encourages biodiversity. Using organic seeds means that you are supporting organic farmers and acres and acres of land under organic management.
Tamar Organics started as a small organic market garden in 1994. They have been registered as producers with the soil association since that time. They added their processor license in 2000 when they became one of the first UK companies to offer organic seeds.
They are inspected every year by the Soil Association, and the plant health seed inspectorate. They participate in the GMO audit. They do not support the development of genetically modified seeds and none of Their seeds are GMs.