Leeks won their popularity with domestic truck farmers relatively recently. The plant differs from all the usual onions with the absence of a bulb. Instead, it has a stalk-leg, which is used for eating. The value of this dacha culture is determined by the presence of a large number of vitamins, resistance to frost and long enough storage when creating the necessary conditions for this. The rating includes the best varieties of leeks on taste, frost resistance and high yield.
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Columbus
Columbus opens the top ten types of leeks. It refers to fairly early varieties, the maturation of which occurs already on the eighty-fifth day after planting. This is a fairly high plant with a terrestrial part reaching 0.8 m in length. The false stem has an average length of thirty centimeters. The value of onion is not only in its good flavor characteristics, but also high enough frost resistance and early high yield. In cooking, Columbus is used for various tasks, but it is best suited for fresh use.
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Winner
The winner of is a popular grade of leeks for leopards and truck farmers. The plant has an average ripeness: the harvest is produced in a hundred and thirty - one hundred and sixty days, depending on the climatic zone and the quality of the soil. The onion has a medium height and green leaves with a grayish hue. The stem of the pedicle also does not have a special length, which can be as much as two dozen centimeters. The weight of one plant does not usually exceed two hundred grams. The taste characteristics of the winner are excellent: it has a tender, juicy and weakly flavorsome taste. In cooking, it is used for conservation and for consumption in fresh form.
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Vesta
Vesta is one of the best varieties of onion leeks, attributed to early ripening. After sowing, the plant matures on the one hundred and twentieth day. Seeds are planted in March, and in the open ground planted only on the seventieth day. The plant is demanding in care and needs regular hilling and fertilization. Vesta leaves have a light green hue with a wax coating. White stem-foot can reach a length of thirty centimeters. The taste of the "leg" is sweet and juicy. Vesta refers to varieties with a fairly high yield.
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Goliath
Goliath is an early ripening, which ripens on a hundred and twentieth day. The onion has an average height of the stem and a sufficiently long "leg", which can reach a length of three dozen, and a width of sixty millimeters. The plant practically does not have a bulb. The mass of a product of vegetable origin reaches an average of one hundred and fifty grams. Use Goliath for drying, as well as for fresh consumption. In truck farmers it is valued for high yield, early maturing and excellent taste characteristics.
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Elephant
Elephant is considered one of the best types of onion leeks among truck farmers. The medium-dwelling plant after maturation ripens on the average on the one hundred and thirtieth day. Elephant is large enough and can reach a height of eighty-five centimeters. It has very wide and bright green with a blue coating of leaves, the length of which reaches several tens of centimeters. One plant can weigh up to two hundred grams. Onions differ excellent yield: from one square meter a summer resident can collect up to four kilograms. Elephant loves care and moisture. It should be watered, fertilized and hilled. It is possible to store the plant for up to six months in suitable conditions. In addition, this variety contains a large number of vitamins and minerals. Elephant is recommended to include in many dietary dishes.
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Throat
The blue wing is one of the best types of onion leeks of late maturation. The plant has dark green leaves with a slight blue color. Onions are very resistant to fairly low temperatures. The weight of one plant does not exceed one hundred and fifty grams. Sizokryla has a good taste with mild acuity. In cooking, he found a universal application: it is used both fresh and dried.
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Asgeos
Asgeos is a good sort of onion leeks, which refers to medium-maturing maturity. A distinctive feature of this species is its versatility, as in cooking it uses, as in fresh, and dried and canned. Its leaves are dark green with a bluish tint of length up to 0,7 m. The "leg" of the plant does not exceed seventeen centimeters in length and forty millimeters in diameter, has a juicy taste with a small tip and a dense consistency. This is a fairly large plant, the mass of which can exceed three hundred grams.
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Tango
Tango opens the top three of the best varieties, characterized by excellent taste, yield and frost resistance. This species is considered to be medium-ripening, since its maturation takes place not earlier than in one hundred and fifty days. The main advantage of Tango is that during the winter storage the content of ascorbic acid in it only increases. It is recommended to make a sowing somewhere in the middle of May. The crop comes to about the end of the first month of autumn. This bow loves repeated hilling and fertilizing with fertilizers. As for the external characteristics, the white part of the stem is not particularly long and is just over a dozen centimeters, but its diameter can reach 50 millimeters.
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Camus
Camus is on the list of the best varieties of leeks. It belongs to plants of this category of medium ripeness. After emergence, summer residents can harvest on average in a hundred and ten days. The value of this kind of onions is good resistance to low temperatures: it can withstand cooling to minus four degrees. In length, the white part of the stem can exceed two dozen centimeters, and the diameter is no more than twenty millimeters. Bulb is weakly or completely absent. The mass of one plant varies within two hundred grams. Camus is designed to use fresh salads.
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Kazimir
Kazimir makes a rating of the best varieties of onion leeks. It is classified as middle-ripening species, the maturation of which occurs after shoots on average in one hundred eighty days. The plant is quite high, and its white part of the stem can reach up to three dozen centimeters. A vegetable product can be stored for a long time if it is covered with sand. Casimir is very delicious, sweet and juicy variety, in particular, it concerns the bleached part. The plant is well suited for both drying as a seasoning and for fresh application. In addition, Casimir refers to very productive varieties.
