Feed for leaks

Without given away any secret feeding formulas.
What should I be feeding my leaks with this time of year?
Robert

 

You might find this an interesting read, although it doesn't answer your question.

http://wihort.uwex.edu/fruitveggies/Leeks.htm

I did read somewhere that like onions they don't like a high nitrogen feed, so perhaps a general purpose feed in liquid form...unless we have some expert growers from the North East.:thumb:

Just read on another forum that they do like nitrogen???? I'd stick with my first reply...general purpose.

 

Robert

I'll be giving mine a dose of Phostrogen and then a moderate helping of chicken manure pellets to be going on with. This should sort them out for trace elements and nitrogen. I'm growing them for the first time in a hastily prepared semi-raised bed that I'm pretty sure is lacking in just about everything plants need so my feeding regime may not be the same as you require.

 

The overall opinion seems to be....work a GP fertilizer into the soil at least 6" down, prior to planting...so I presume growmore would sort that.

Then a GP fertilizer in liquid form half way through their growing season.

TBH. I just used to use the growmore first and never fed the dam things after that. Just keep them well watered...this year I wouldn't have thought that would be much of a problem.:thumb:

That chicken sh1t seems to be pretty good flinty..used that mesel.

 

Seems like GP in liquid form will be the way forward.
Is liquid tom feed suitable?

 

Generally you shouldn't really feed leeks that are going to overwinter after early September as this will produce soft growth which won't tolerate the cold weather over the winter.

That's what I've heard anyway.

 

Sound advise from all as usual. thanks guys.

 

Yup, I've heard that too. But living down here in the Everglades of Hampshire, we don't get cold weather until about late January or February. And maybe not even then. The result is that stuff tends to keep on growing, obviously more slowly because the daylight is less, throughout the autumn and early winter. So I'm working on the assumption that my leeks have got another 3-4months of slow growth so I give them a bit of "supper" to be going on with!