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🗓️ 10 April 2018
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We've covered leeks before...but never like this! How do you grow them in containers and leave enough space for roots to grow, but also get white, straight, blanched leek stems? Find out in today's show.
Learn More: Leeks: Everything You Need To Know To Grow And Harvest Them
Keep Growing,
Kevin
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0:00.0 | What's up everyone? Welcome back to the epic gardening show. Today we're going to talk about a |
0:06.7 | Root crop I guess it's not really a root crop, but it is in the Allium family which is typically a root crop and that would be the leak the humble |
0:15.3 | leak a lot of people don't grow leaks or they don't eat leaks and I don't understand why it is a beautiful |
0:22.0 | beautiful vegetable |
0:23.5 | chock full of nutrition and have you ever had potato league soup? |
0:27.2 | Because I have and I like to make it in the garden, |
0:31.0 | rather in the kitchen from the garden. It's one of the most delicious soup |
0:34.7 | you're ever going to have. So get out in the garden and plant some leaks but |
0:38.3 | today we're talking about planning them in containers because you know it is a longer season crop and if you've got small |
0:44.7 | space maybe you don't want to dedicate your precious precious beds to something like a |
0:49.6 | leak which takes forever to grow and is relatively cheap at the grocery store or even |
0:55.0 | buying fresh and organic at a farmer's market. |
0:58.0 | But what about growing them in containers? |
1:01.0 | Now I have to admit I didn't have a lot of experience doing this so I turned |
1:04.8 | to the ever trustee YouTube which I put videos out on about what I know but I also do a |
1:09.8 | lot of research there as well for things that I don't know in the garden and I would |
1:12.8 | encourage you all to do the same you can learn so much from YouTube |
1:15.4 | gardeners now there's something about it in the UK people are experts at |
1:21.7 | growing all sorts of root vegetables, especially in containers. |
1:25.6 | It seems like that is their specialty. |
1:27.9 | Now, whenever there's a specialty, that's who you look for to learn from, right? |
1:34.0 | And so I found someone on YouTube. |
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