Sow leek seedlings
Last year, I planted leeks, the seeds of which I gave a neighbor. This year I bought the seeds of this crop in the supermarket "Pyaterochka" from the agricultural firm "Aelita". There's some reason seeds are cheaper than in the horticultural center. And I decided to sow at once, because the ripening period high - up to six months. A variety called "Good lad."
description of the variety
This is a valuable late autumn variety. From germination to harvest 160-180 days. The plant is quite high up to 140 cm. The length of the legs 25-30 cm, 4-5 cm in diameter, weight 200 grams productive part. The taste of leeks sweet and slightly spicy. The products are well stored after harvest with partial cut leaves. The amount of vitamin C during storage increases. Yield per 1 m2 - 3.5-4.5 kg.
How to sow
What you need:
Capacity for planting;
nail;
perlite for drainage;
pulvelizatora;
universal primer;
tablespoon;
snow;
potassium permanganate;
seeds.
Step-by-step instruction
1. Take the seeds and treat them in a dark pink solution of potassium permanganate for 20 minutes. Rinse and slightly dry.
2. The capacity to do the drainage holes hot awl or nail.
3. Then fill the bottom of perlite as a drainage material.
4. Pour into a container universal primer by two-thirds.
5. Solution of potassium permanganate shed soil before planting.
6. Soil compacted to pochvosmesi evenness. Because of this the seedlings will be amicable.
7. Since leek seeds dark and small, the task of planting yourself oversimplifying with snow. Pour it on top of the soil surface layer of 1 cm using a spoon. On a white background it is more convenient to lay the dark seeds. Another benefit of the snow - it soaks the ground melt water, which has a favorable effect on the seeds.
8. It is necessary to flatten the layer of snow and a little squeeze his hand.
9. Now you can sow the seeds in a container rows. The distance between the rows is 5 cm. The number of rows depends on the width of the container.
10. Wait until melted snow, and then fill up with a spoon primer layer is not more than 1 cm, tamped pochvosmes.
11. Slightly sprayed soil from pulvelizatora water.
12. Cover the container if it is not, to use for this purpose a plastic bag.
13. Put the container in a warm dark place. Once a day, you need to slightly open crops on 10 minutes.
Seedlings are planted after the late varieties of 90-100 days. Therefore, late varieties sown in the first ten days of February.
Care of seedlings
When the first shoots (approximately 10 days), put on a light windowsill. The temperature for the normal development - + 18- + 20 degrees. Seedlings to night not supercool, you need a container to put a piece of foam.
Used for supplementary lighting fitolamp plants to provide 12 hours of light per day. Sprayed or watered daily to avoid drying out of the upper soil substrate.
The first dressing is carried out when the shoots grow up a little bit (after 14-20 days after sowing). As the fertilizer can be applied to complex fertilizer seedling "Krepysh" or bio-fertilizer based on humic acids.
Further feeding - every 2 weeks.
Recommended cut onion seedlings up to 6-7 cm, so that it is better developed.
A month after the seedlings spend the pick plants for individual cups. 2 weeks before planting the seedlings quenched in the exhaust gas, bringing the street, in the early days - from 2 hours, increasing with each passing day to 12 hours. And you can leave in the greenhouse at night in the last week. In late May, planted in open ground.
All dates are given for the middle band.
For information on how to take care of leeks in the open field, you can read this article.
About cleaning and storage of leek can be found here.
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