{"id":503,"date":"2016-06-26T15:30:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T14:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/gardening-tips\/problems-with-garden-vegetables-leeks\/"},"modified":"2016-06-26T15:30:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T14:30:41","slug":"problems-with-garden-vegetables-leeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/problems-with-garden-vegetables-leeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Problems With Garden Vegetables &#8211; Leeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you leeks have failed to mature this winter leave them and see if<br \/>\nthey beef up over the next 8 weeks.If they show no signs I would start<br \/>\nagain.Sometimes they have problems caused when they are being<br \/>\ntransplanted the roots get damaged,this is why they are best<br \/>\ntransplanted by creating a hole and then planted by hold the leek in the<br \/>\nhole and pouring water from the top of  the hole so the soil collapses<br \/>\naround the root.If they start to flower then you have lost them and you<br \/>\nwill be best removing them.Other common problems can be a lack of<br \/>\nnutrients such as iron and a badly structured soil through the lack of<br \/>\norganic matter or humists in the soil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you leeks have failed to mature this winter leave them and see if they beef up over the next 8 weeks.If they show no signs I would start again.Sometimes they have problems caused&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-gardener"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}