Fothergill's Leek Autora F1 Vegetable Seeds

Details:

• Botanical Name: Allium porrum, a premium hybrid vegetable engineered for superior field performance.
• Plant Class: Hardy Vegetable, showing excellent frost tolerance to provide a dependable, fresh harvest throughout the colder months.
• F1 Hybrid Vigour: Bred by the same expert team behind the renowned 'Stromboli' variety, ensuring exceptional reliability, high yields, and rapid establishment.
• Shank Quality: Produces long, thick, non-bulbing white shanks that are remarkably easy to clean, topped with attractive, erect dark green foliage.
• Uniform Growth: Exhibits impressive consistency across the entire crop, giving you commercial-grade uniformity right in your home kitchen, garden or allotment.
• Disease Resistance: Features excellent natural resistance to leek rust, keeping the plants healthy and robust during damp autumn weather.
• Flavour Profile: Delivers a sweet, wonderfully mild, and delicate onion-like flavour that is perfect for gourmet soups, stews, or roasting whole.

Care & Growing Instructions:

• Sowing Position: Sow in seedbeds or modules during spring. Once seedlings reach "pencil thickness," transplant them into deep, fertile, well-drained soil in a sunny spot using the traditional "drop and puddle" method.
• Maintenance & Harvest: Keep well-watered during dry summer spells. This highly resilient variety stands remarkably well in the soil over winter, allowing you to harvest them fresh from the ground from autumn through to early winter.