How to Plant and Grow Multiplier (Perennial) Leeks

g'day welcome to i cultivate my name's steve and today we're going to be looking at a fascinating perennial multiplier leaks have a look at these these are multiplier leaks they're very similar to their close cousin normal leaks except for what they do is they multiply by simply sprouting off new buds they're a fantastic vegetable to grow because they taste just like normal leeks but with one exception they're perennial the fact that they're perennial means that they don't go through the same sort of life cycle as your normal annual legs do they tend to not go to seed instead they'll produce these little baby leaks off to the side about the only downside of these leaks is the fact that they don't tend to grow to the same size as normal legs but given that we get these baby legs coming up all the time i reckon i can live with that the sorts of conditions that you need to grow these leaks in are exactly the same as normal leaks they like a soil that is slightly acidic probably around a ph of about 6.5 and in addition to that they are fairly heavy nitrogen feeders so you do need to make sure that you keep a good solid amount of manure up to them you can see here i have a fair bit of manure this is a mixture of horse manure cow and sheep manure in addition to that i like to give them a bit of chicken manure as well which is of course quite high in nitrogen don't forget though that those manures need to be well aged so let's have a look at these multiplier legs so if we have a look at these these leaks i break away the soil you can see the parent leak just here and you can see all these small leak buds that have started to grow away from the parent leak and these are just simply a matter of just teasing them away and there is our young leak that we're going to plant in order to propagate this particular vegetable so what i'm going to do is just break these apart you can still see some buds here on the parent leak which will develop into others although you can also see that i have now got quite a few new leaks in order to plant this leak here the parent leak that's going into our cooking so here i have my bundle of baby leeks that i've taken from the parent multiplier leak and all i'm going to do now is to plant these in a row about 15 centimeters apart it's important that you actually plant them quite deep so i'd be going down to um as much as say 50 or 60 millimeters deep making sure that we get those nice white stems later as they grow once you've got them in their trenches backfill give them a good water cover a mulch and that's about it just remember though that they do need a good dose of feed they do need to be well manured and a bit of liquid fertilizer from time to time doesn't hurt either i hope you've found this video about multiplier leaks informative and can i please ask you to contribute to the discussion on youtube and go to our website icultivate.net and become a part of the community thanks for watching you