Winter leek
Leek ‘Bleu de Solaise’
Leek ‘Bleu de Solaise’: Sowing, planting and harvest calendar
Bleu de Solaise is an autumn and winter leek variety, valued for its hardiness and blue-green foliage. Leek is commonly named Allium porrum, also associated with the name Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum, in the Amaryllidaceae family. A thick shank of medium length is one of this variety's distinguishing features. Its appeal lies more in a robust leek for the colder season than in a particularly slender outline or an exceptionally long white shank.The white shank consists of leaf bases fitting closely inside one another. It is neither a blue bulb nor a fleshy root. Above it, long flat leaves spread into a fan, giving the plant its familiar shape. The word bleu refers to their colour, which is green with a bluish cast rather than a uniform blue across the whole vegetable. The white section and the foliage are complementary parts of the same plant, with different appearances and textures.In…
