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Onions - the leek is cold-resistant two-year plant from family onions. Unlike onions it does not form head turnip. At leek the long, powerful white bulb of cylindricity which goes to the use grows. Leaves at this plant wide, flat, are similar to garlic leaves. It is not so often possible to meet leek on our kitchen gardens. And it is unfair. The leek to taste is much more gentle than onions. It contains salts of potassium and vitamin C much, it possesses diuretic action. Doctors recommend to use it at rheumatism and urolithic disease. In food use gentle white part of plant as fresh, and in stewed and boiled. Leek can be dried, salted, pickled. Agrotechnology. Leek is recommended to be grown up in the seedling way since the vegetative period at it lasts from 180 to 200 days. Early crops of seeds in soil it is possible to grow up these onions in areas with the long thermal period. It is the best of all to pave the way since fall. For this purpose it is necessary to dig over and fertilize the chosen site organic (manure or compost) and mineral (superphosphate and chloride sodium) fertilizers. These onions prefer, the fertile, fertilized soil therefore in the spring on the prepared site it is good to introduce still and nitrogen fertilizers. The soil has to be friable, rather humidified. At seedling way of landing the seeds sow in the middle of February. Sprouts ascend and grow rather for a long time. Seedling is planted in the middle of May on the prepared bed through 30 cm between ranks and by 20 cm between plants. Each plant is planted to the earth as it is possible more deeply to receive longer bulb. Care for leek. During all vegetative period leaving consists in weeding, watering, obligatory loosening and earthing up. Hill onions for the purpose of increase in the lower white part of plant. Summer fertilizing will also not prevent plant, and on the contrary, will help to increase harvest. Cleaning of leek. The first harvest of onions can be carried out selectively in August, thinning out plants. At the beginning of October, onions are removed on winter storage, cutting off leaves and roots. Optimum length of white bulb with leaves – 25 cm. It is possible to store onions in the basement, having powdered it with damp sand. It is possible and to leave leek to winter on bed. In this case it is possible to receive fresh products in already early spring.