There is a small way to grow potted leek. The leaves are wide, big and green.

If you don't know how to grow vegetables, you can plant a potted leek, because it's easier to take care of, whether it's leek seeds or leek roots. As long as the balcony terrace has a little sun. A variety of pots, leaves green all the year round, looks very comfortable and eye-pleasing, want to eat at any time. However, some vegetable friends said, their own potted leek longer and thinner, how to plant to make leek grow thick?

Potted chives, with a small method, leaves grow wide and large, green crazy growth!

If you plant potted leek at home, one or two years, the pot has not changed soil for a long time, the soil is more hardened, lack of humus and lack of nutrients, so leek grows thinner and thinner.

Because leek can be harvested many times at a time, and the growth speed is relatively fast, so in harvesting leek once, after the wound heals one day, it needs to irrigate fertilizer water in time, or apply some organic fertilizer, so that it can have enough nutrients, continue to grow, grow more fat.

Organic fertilizer suitable for chives is more, you can use some broken eggshells in the pot soil, you can also use decomposed chicken manure, sheep manure, or fermented rice washing water. There are plant ash, peat soil, rotten leaf soil, can be used as fertilizer. Chives like fat, fertility, leaves will grow particularly wide, green, grow very fast.

The leek planting time is too long, the soil has hardened, the root system is also damaged, maybe some roots in the soil have rotted, the longer the growth time, the root system of leek will not grow well.

There is a small trick, is each kind to a year or two, the leek together with the roots dug out, pruned rotten roots and then replanted, leaving only healthy roots, and then planted into fertile loose soil, it can grow especially luxuriant. After planting for more than 20 days, you can harvest and eat it.

Usually, check the soil for maggots eating leek roots. There is also a kind of leek can not be planted too closely, so there is no ventilation, there is not enough room for growth, so plant less to do.

And planting leek, also need to give it more sun, often open windows to keep ventilation, if the light is not enough, its leaves will also be small. Light enough, pot soil dry on watering, water and fertilizer sufficient, fertile loose soil, leek leaves grow big and wide and vigorous, often can be picked to cook to eat!