http://hopesayglebefarm.blogspot.com/2008/06/leek-planting.html
We are now harvesting the resultant crop, the module plants were planted in early june while the bare root transplants were planted mid june. The two trial batches were the same variety and were in adjacent beds.
The untrimmed plants show a difference in the quality of plants, the bare root transplants are on your right as you look at them.
But the trimmed plants show the real difference, again the bare root transplants are on the right. The bare root plants are bigger with significantly longer shanks. Considering these were planted later than the module transplants, the advantage to us of using bare root plants seems obvious.This doesn't mean that we are abandoning module leeks entirely, I intend to sow some early under lights by early February so they can be planted with the onions so achieving an early crop.
2 comments:
Beautiful farm. Being a soil scientist, i especially love your leek experiment... Thanks for posting it!
I noticed that you said that you have to sell "only" organic produce. Are you not able to have some portion of your farm non-organic? Just curious, cuz we probably do it differently here in the US.
Hi Dirt Dude I will post a bit more on the leek experiment later, we sell only organic because the whole farm (small holding) is registered. But if we wanted we could have registered part and sold some conventional produce. The certifying bodies prefer that all farms move towards certifying all the lans as organic.
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