Although they take a little time to germinate and get going, leeks are one of the easiest winter veggies you can grow in a backyard garden. They tolerate freezing temperatures well and unlike onions, they’re not day-length sensitive.
Join us as we show you an easy way to plant leeks to ensure you make big delicious leeks come spring!
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36 Comments
What variety is the English peas
Enjoyed the video as always Travis. I may have to try some leeks. I haven't perfected onions yet.
No matter the season, your garden is always beautiful. ☺️
Leeks are one of the few vegetables I can grow well. Your spacing is just fine to get the good size. I've grown the 110-120 day varieties like American Flag and Giant Musselburgh, but my favorite is Bleu de Solaise, the French heirloom. Inch and a half diameter is my goal with about 10" blanched and trimmed to 8" green tops. That's what my wife likes to see in the kitchen and her potato/leek soup is out of this world. I think that next year I'll fertigate with my Hoss injector and 3-2-3 AgroThrive sweetened up with some Chilean nitrate. Tell Santa that you need a planting dibble. Good show.
Alright, alright, alright! Another great garden video, Hooo Weee! great veggies! Been sippin big mug of hot tea, while wearing my Lazy Dog Hat too boot. So much tea …sure it good. Uh, I think it's time to plant some Leeks of my own! Keep the videos comin! :- )
What are some of your favorite ways of using leeks? memI think I would grow them again if I had some good recipes.
I think you will like the trimmed seedlings! as always, you have some Great looking Gardens! its staying in the 20s & 30s at night here , Im just watching the onions & garlic grow , & plowing under my other garden spots.
I have plenty of onions growing I've never planted leaks nor have I ever eaten leaks but I do plan on planting some I've seen some of your other videos where you planed them so I'll have to check them out. I use a PVC pipe as where you use the hoe I also put the transplant through the pvc it keeps me from bending over so much
Turmeric dies back when it's ready to harvest.
Travis , your garden looks great . At least the frost didn’t get most of the garden. Your doing a great job.
Thanks for the informative video on leeks. I’ve never planted them, but am interested in doing so in the Spring. I’m looking forward to watching the progress of those you just planted.
Travis, I've been trying to figure out what the song in your closing credits are. That is a mellow song. I tried looking through your Links Below but don't see any links about that. Keep up the good fight brother. Grow on!
audio dropped right down from the point where you go off-camera showing frost damage on plot.
Great video as usual.
I live in a big agricultural area in south Florida, anytime there’s an expected frost the big farm hire helicopters to fly over the fields. The downdraft pulls warmer air onto the fields.
The cold has certainly come to SW Missouri. The only thing I have in the ground is garlic. We are on our new farm property, which has needed a ton of work, so I mostly had a couple small patches of dig and plant plots. Next spring, I will have more of a proper garden. I might plant a few leeks then for the following season. I love leek and potato soup! We moved this past May from zone 9 to zone 6B, so I’m still unsure of what to plant when.. I have a Clyde’s Garden Planner, but don’t know enough yet about Missouri seasons to know what I can sneak a late planting ( or early planting) in of …. I put a few potatoes in this year in mid-late may and had my best crop ever, size-wise. It was only a very small patch, literally dug in a cow pasture, but my yield was decent; a washtub full…
That is so weird that only the red cabbages suffered greatly from the frost. Is it a hybrid variety? Maybe one of its parents is more frost intolerant.
I planted my onions a week after you, and they have been slow to start, also. Right after planting the night temps went down the the 30s and 40s. I was wondering if the night temps were slowing the early growth. What say you?
Your turmeric looks really good. I have 7 plants from the same root, but I planted the much later so I'll have to cover them, too. They'll rejoice once it's hot and humid again.
Looking good. Travis are you using bottom heat to start your plants?
Over the years, I have attended enough “Seed Swaps” to collect an assortment of Leek seeds. In 2014, the “curiosity bug” got the better of me. Planted seeds from each Leek variety. My notes indicate that they were started indoors and then transplanted into 24-foot rows according to what the Grower reported as Days to Maturity (DTM). Spacing was 1-foot intervals. The longest DTM (row #1) was at the perimeter of the garden and the shortest DTM (row #6) was toward the middle of the garden.
Row 1 was American Flag (130). Row 2 was Blue Solaise (110). Row 3 was Giant Musselburgh (105). Row 4 was Tadorna (100). Row 5 was Carentan (100). Row 6 was Autumn Giant (90).
Learned a lot along the way — some do better with spring planting while others do better with fall planting. Tadorna proved to be the most cold-hardy. The two varieties that I still grow in 2021? Tadorna and Giant Musselburgh. Enjoy seeing what happens when the “curiosity bug” gets the better of you! Your “trials” are always informative. Best wishes from Olympia, WA.
I like your channel the farm is set up really nice are you a home gardener or do you sell produce
@ 12:59 Can I borrow your garden cat? I've got a vole problem.
So your compost does not hold water. I have found mine holds water very well — though mine doesn't look at broken down as yours. I remember talking with some other local gardeners before about how all compost is not the same. It really does depend on what you make it from, how fast it is made, what stage you put it down, etc.
For the English peas, you can drape frost fabric on the sides to the ground and use clothes pins to hold it to the wire on each side.
mmmmm potato leek soup
Where did you get your giant marigold seed? Thank you
Loving the videos and the channel! Striking out on your own was the right move. Keep up the great work!
I tried growing leeks in Zone 9b….Did not go well in my suburban garden. I will definitely give them another try, once I get my weed seed bank under control.
Another great video, Travis!
Leeks? Nope, not available around here but Bok Choy, (did I spell that right?:- ) And they're looking like they might work out good! Collards are producing, and too, the Kale (Siberian and Red). Beets are sloooow to grow as are the carrots (even slower). Broccoli and Cauliflower and Cabbages are coming on strong. Sugar snaps are climbing and some starting to produce. Onions are showing tops and demanding feeding! Turnips and Mustard (FL broad leaf) and growing well. So… I'm a happy camper this Fall. Wife told me not to wear my Lazy Dog Cap at the supper table and to give Thanks for the swamp soup! Swamp soup consists of chopped up collard greens, black beans, navy beans, chicken broth, onions, and Conecuh sausage and probably a Pinch or two of one or two other ingredients! MMmmmm! good with corn bread. Great on cold wintry nights. May God bless.
* its 70 some degrees today on the second day of December…. absolutely insane. But im not totally complaining its better than a blizzard. Im not ready yet.
* try misting the stuff you want to frost protect, it uses less water & apparently orchards use it in the spring to protect blossoms.
* i watched this first just listening to it and was so highly confused about tarragon flowering 😂 however i know people will harvest "baby" ginger. So maybr try to gently uproot one plant & see how much of the rhizome has formed? For ginger the skin is super thin & pink almost, apparently completely different taste that mature ginger we can buy in the store. I know even less about turmeric tho.
* i wonder for the peas if you could get a greenhouse plastic that is extra wide & pop it on the top of the bean tunnel. Except tent out the sides so they are away from the plants quite a bit to keep them growing better thru winter (i hope i explained that well…. i kinda picture how darth vaders helment flares out to be the end view profile of this contraption in my mind…)
What happened with the hoss tools. I don’t care for the old bag on hoss tools that must have replaced you. Wondered what happened. Glad to see you.
I love watching your videos and seeing how differently you grow things in the US compared to here in the UK! In our climate we start leeks off from Feb-Apr and then plant them out in the summer for winter harvests. We "dib" a deep, wide hole like you do (although mine are 8" deep) and put the seedling in to the bottom before "puddling in" (carefully filling the hole with water to the top). It washes soil around the roots but keeps the hole wide so the leeks have plenty of space which they'll fill up as the grow.
I also multi-sow leeks, and transplant 3-4 to grow in a clump above ground. They don't blanche to a white trunk but stay a lighter green, almost self-blanching.
Thanks for this video, I really do enjoy seeing what you're doing in your garden!
You ever herd of going out before daylite and spray the frost of with water hose something about if you get it done before sun hits the plants it won’t burn them
what type of seed tray is that , looks nice
I enjoyed that! I used to grow leaks but with my limited space they ended up getting pushed out by crops we enjoy more. I once read a book by a famous English gardener, he said that he always grows the newest varieties and then switches to another new variety after a few years because the seed growers select seed so poorly that the plants start to lose quality with time.
Klaus
FOR THE LOVE OF.GOD..YES SAVE THE PEAS!!!..
MY problem at pushing 80 i can never remember what temp zaps what. So im way ibmver.cautious …i pull out the blankets sheets what ever i can find….when i moved i foolishly got rid of a lot od them and we had 5 back to back deep freeze that killed about 500 people in houston alone because californians who didnt even live here ran our power grid!!!!!! Anyway….any blanket shert and clip i can find i use except that year they went on humans….finally ordered some of those frost blankets.