Organic Elephant Leek Seeds

Genuine Ancestry Seed Bank Special Design packaging Planting & Growing Instruction read the seed packet Professional DEFRA licence and Soil Association Organic Certified. To prevent damping off when starting seeds indoors, it’s essential that you disinfect all of your plastic grow ...Genuine Ancestry Seed Bank Special Design packaging Planting & Growing Instruction read the seed packet Professional DEFRA licence and Soil Association Organic Certified. To prevent damping off when starting seeds indoors, it’s essential that you disinfect all of your plastic grow trays, seed cells, and seedling tray covers before you reuse them.

Winter leek Elefant a reliable hardy variety originally from eastern European. Leek Elefant grows straight up from the ground, the flat leaves growing up from a cylindrical, rounded bulb, overlapping each other in a concentric pattern. The tops of the leaves, referred to as ‘flags,’ are dark green with a bluish tint, and tough.

They fan out at the top of the stalk, like the fronds of a palm tree. The flat Leek leaves can grow up to nearly a meter in height, the bulb sitting shallow in the dirt, around 8 centimetres (3 to 4 inches) long. The edible part of the leaf stalk averages of 30 to 35 centimetres (13 inches) in height, up to 5 centimetres in diameter, and is a light green colour.

Leeks have a flavour that is milder than an onion, with a slight sweetness.