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cool season crop hardy to frost

Leek

Timing everywhere hangs on one number: the local start of the workable season. Enter your town for exact dates where you garden.

Days to maturity
100–120 d
Frost
hardy
Soil temp
≥ 7 °C

How leek timing shifts by place

Tokyo
Cfa
London
Cfb
Sydney
Cfa
Melbourne
Cfb

Southern-hemisphere places mirror the calendar — their season straddles the new year. Equatorial highlands have no frost at all, so the limiting factor becomes rainfall, not cold. See leek dates for your place →