Fothergill's Leek Lyon 2 Prizetaker Seeds

Details:

• Botanical Name: Allium porrum, a traditional, high-performing selection trusted by generations of British gardeners.
• Plant Class: Hardy Vegetable, possessing excellent resilience to ensure fresh, homegrown stems across an incredibly long harvesting window.
• Shank Quality: Produces beautifully long, thick white stems with a tender texture, topped with fan-like, mid-green foliage.
• Flavour Profile: Delivers a mild, sweet, and superior refined flavor, making it a stellar ingredient for classic leek and potato soup, braising, or roasting whole.
• Nutritional Value: Provides an excellent, natural, homegrown source of essential folate, boosting your winter wellness and intake of healthy greens.
• Sowing Flexibility: Highly adaptable to your routine; can be sown directly into outdoor seedbeds or started earlier indoors in cell trays for a head start.

Care & Growing Instructions:

• Sowing Position: Sow from early spring in a sunny spot with deep, fertile, well-drained soil. When the seedlings reach pencil thickness, transplant them using the traditional "drop and puddle" method into holes 15cm (6in) deep.
• Maintenance: Keep the plants well-watered during dry summer spells. To maximize the prized, long white stems, progressively earth up soil around the shanks as they grow to blanch the stems away from the sunlight.