Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Benny130 on June 13, 2020, 21:20
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Anyone’s leeks in there final position yet? Not grown then before. They are about the thickness of a bic biro now.
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You're too modest ;) - plenty big enough to plant out now.
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Mine are smaller than yours and they've been out for a few weeks now!
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Mine are out. Dibber's tip....
If the surface soil is dry and crumbly, water along the projected site of your leeks. This stops soil falling into the hole you've made before you can get the leek plant in!
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All in many thanks.
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Maybe ask other plot holders if you get allium leaf miner or other leek pests. I now have to cover mine with mesh to stop them getting got!
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Mine went in yesterday, about the same size as first post.
Love planting leeks, always great fun.
Dib the holes.
Separate the leeks from your trays.
Pop them in the holes.
Get your plastic foot or so of old hose attached to your normal hose or in my case attached to a watering can, so you can carefully fill the hole.
Fill the holes with water.
Fix a few of the leeks that did not stand up so well.
Leave to grow on their own
Water once a week
Enjoy pulling carefully from December to April :)
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Still trying to find the way with my leeks. The holes I dropped them in dont seem to have filled in with soil. They seem firmly rooted. Should I add some soil to the holes?
Are they looking healthy??
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As long as a little soil got washed down to settle the roots, they'll be fine. If yours have firmly rooted then then that did happen.
The holes don't need to fill in, with any luck the leeks will grow to fill the holes :D
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Never 'pull' leeks.They'll snap. Get a fork deeply beside them and lever them up.
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Great-looking crop there, Benny!
Presume they are later ones, so will last the winter!
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i didnt want to throw any seedlings away so planted the lot! 125 in total I think :blush:
Below zero and oarsman. Hope we get to eat them all!
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i didnt want to throw any seedlings away so planted the lot! 125 in total I think :blush:
Me too :lol: I have over 100 planted up because the seedlings looked so lovely, I couldn't bring myself to chuck them in the compost.
We can swap leek recipes in the cooking bit ;) Leek pie anyone :)
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i didnt want to throw any seedlings away so planted the lot! 125 in total I think :blush:
Me too :lol: I have over 100 planted up because the seedlings looked so lovely, I couldn't bring myself to chuck them in the compost.
You've expressed a terrible weakness we all have. "I grew it from a seed - I can't bear to see to see (sob) it...die.."
So some of us now face the prospect of 200 ripe beetroot; 450 leeks and three hundredweight of lettuce - all ready at the same time..
The photo illustrates my neighbour, bringing home his onion crop. He is single, lives in a one bed flat and doesn't like his neighbours.
Or onions very much...
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Leek pie anyone :)
Leek and Feta in puff pastry is very nice lol
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Is this rust?
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Look like it :(
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I planted mine out in clumps ala Charles Dowding & a first for me, they look to be doing ok, but just spotted a bit of rust under the environmesh >:(
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I tried planting leeks in three potato bags this year, in decent compost and regularly watered.
The spacing was just a few inches - thirteen per bag, and the yield isn't that bad, although the plants nearest the wall they were up against, are much smaller.
The yield isn't bad for the area they're in, with the plants maxing at around an inch diameter, so I'll try again next year, in a different position!
Leeks are a fabulous veg, and a staple here! I saw some in a local shop at 90p each yesterday...!
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As previously mentioned i have just over 100 in one spot all together and they all have it. Looks like most of the growing has been done. Far to many to trim each individual leek? I dont really want to strip the outside leaves incase the then exposed ones suffer from the same rust??
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Rust is a real problem for me regarding Garlic but strangely not so much with the leeks. The problem is it is very wet here during the winter and into early spring and that is the best time to grow it here in my opinion. There is a lot of it produced nearby so they must have access to some potion to apply which prevents it taking hold... I think I will inquire :D
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Is Allium leaf miner especially bad this year? I have to germinate my seeds under fleece to stop them getting infected but once they were planted out I didn't cover them until the end of August and they look terrible. I thought the advice was that the fly which causes this was only active March/April and September/November but I seem to have been too late covering up in the last week in August. The bed hasn't been used for leeks before so there shouldn't have been pupae in the soil.
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In other years the Ally Miner hasn’t kept strictly to its allotted time slots either, nor has the leek moth. We get both so ours are covered with ultrafine mesh from the start and it's left on until well into winter.