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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Robert_Brenchley on August 08, 2015, 11:41:17

Title: Babbington leeks and other alliums
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on August 08, 2015, 11:41:17
New blog post

http://thisandthat-robert.blogspot.de/2015/08/babbingtons-and-other-alliums.html
Title: Re: Babbington leeks and other alliums
Post by: pumkinlover on August 09, 2015, 08:03:13
They look really good, do they cope with diseases well?
Title: Re: Babbington leeks and other alliums
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on August 09, 2015, 20:51:38
So far. Babbington's, elephant garlic and perlzweibel are leeks, and none of them, as far as I know, get white rot. I only started growing potato onions - apart from shallots - last year, so it's a bit early to tell yet. I lost most of my shallots last winter, to a bacterial rot. Most of the survivors were damaged, and it's going to take a couple of years to recover. Walking onions seem to be indestructible.