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- From: "Alliums" <garlicgrower AT green-logic.com>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] - now harvestingleeks!
- Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 12:11:07 -0500
Hi, Folks! << you havest leeks in
the winter? You can leave them in the ground?>> Yes, most varieties should be able to be
left in the ground and when mulched well (leaves/straw/whatever), be dug out
when needed. There are some newer varieties (Seeds of Change promotes
them) that are considered “summer leeks” that can’t take a
freeze. As a person of Welsh ancestry, I find the idea of “summer
leeks” that can’t handle a m <<I
pulled all of mine a couple of weeks ago because they weren't looking as good
as they were a couple weeks before that, stuck them in a couple inches of water
in five gallon buckets, and stored in the cellar. But they're smelling a
little funky now, and the outer layer or two is kind of mushy and needs to be
peeled off.>> Yikes! That much water for any
alliums just isn’t what the genus enjoys! <<So, was that the
wrong thing to do? Should they be left in the ground unt Do you know what variety you have?
If it’s a “summer leek”, you have to eat them. If not
(and most of the older varieties, especially the British ones, were made for
winter eating), you should be able to apply mulch thickly and be okay. JAUNE DE
POITERS, a yellow leek from <<And, I'm all over the
sheet composting thing. Lay it on, lay it on.... rake it off in the
spring and good to go. The garlic seems to like the bedding coming right
out of the barn, chicken poop and all. And it st Sounds on-target to me. Even if you are
harvesting your garlic in June, if you’re applying the bedding now, I can’t
see why NOP would have a problem with it. Personally, if I knew where my
squash beds were going (especially winter squash), I’d lay out the barn
sweepings on their beds now for the same reason – they love nitrogen and
why spend the time composting when the plant doesn’t believe that
nitrogen is anything it can ever have too much of? Dorene Pasekoff, Coordinator A mission of |
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Re: [Market-farming] garlic spacing -- soil prep - now harvesting leeks!,
david purpura, 11/08/2005
- Re: [Market-farming] - now harvestingleeks!, Alliums, 11/13/2005
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