Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: jacnal on August 11, 2007, 00:12
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....Will my leeks still be okay to fatten up? Some of the holes are full of soil and I was just wondering if this means I need to take a spoon and scoop the soil out or just leave them be and see what happens. Also, how often do you water yours in this heat - bearing in mind they're in deep and probably are accessing moisture deep under? Hope I'm making sense?
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Leave them be - they'll be fine. Neither would I water unless they show signs of wilting.
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might just send my hubby to do that job!! sorry but i had to laugh at the thought of him scooping the soil out with a spoon, we have planting about 300 (not as many as you WG i know) but it would keep me laughing for a while!!
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when you plant out your leek seedlings into the final position,get a small length of hose pipe(8"-10") and attach it to your watering can,this makes it so much easier when you water them in, you wont be spilling the water every where :wink:
you might find it hard to get a 15mm hose onto a watering can ive got a small bit of air line but you can find anything that fits,the discharge hose from a washing machine/dishwasher will do.