Stop 11. Onions & Leeks.

Onions, leeks and garlic belong to the Allium family of vegetables, which are year-round cooking favourites! We try and grow a mix of varieties to make sure we supply them throughout as much of the year as we can. 

Our onions will keep in store all winter long right up to April some years. Leeks will keep us all fed right into May and are one of our longest to harvest crops from July onwards.

Growing Brassicas before Alliums helps to make them more pungent, which can suppress pests and diseases! This is effective for the root crops that will grow here next year too.

We undersow our alliums with a green manure, that helps keep the soil thriving and maintain its structure through the winter.