[iwantanallotment]

If you value your throat, let them go.
Leeks gone to seed are like chewing on floorboards.
Dump them - no good for anything, unless you're a woodworm.
Oh and SORRY, smojet - welcome to the forum  
Sorry that your first reply was a negative. How are your other vegges doing? Would love to know what else you have growing way over there?

[Smojet]

Hi iwantanallotment,

Aw, that's okay. I didn't make a huge effort to harvest them last fall because I wanted to see if they would survive the winter, which was bitterly cold, and they did! This is my third year of marriage and my third year of planning a ridiculously huge garden (it's about 65' x 7', don't know what that is in meters.) The last two years went well, with eggplants (I think you call them aubergines), bell peppers, chili peppers, tomatoes, zucchini, beans, green onions/bunching onions, watermelon, kale... My big new experiment this year is to try to grow charentais melons. I found them in a seed catalogue and they look gorgeous! Are you familiar with them? I've never seen or heard of them.

Have you gotten the allotment that you want? Oh, and thanks for saving my teeth and gums from the likes of the flowering leeks.

[Trillium]

Hi Smojet, I'm just over in Ontario and have the same gardening conditions as you.

[DD.]

This is my third year of marriage and my third year of planning a ridiculously huge garden (it's about 65' x 7', don't know what that is in meters.)

Hi Smojet & welcome. Surely that's a typo - not even us modest Brits would call that "ridiculously huge"!  

One of my plots is about 32' x 97' - don't worry about meters we don't understand them!

[amberleaf]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ptknVYjcIE

The above may interest you.

I have found that chinese and asian vegetables do bolt if sown early.

They seem to be better behaved sown in August.

I was told that they do not like our long days and short nights. That us why they tend to bolt if sown early in the season.

Roots generally go hard when the plants flower or bolt and are often inedible.

[Smojet]

Wow, D.D., you sound like you're running a small farm! And I was always led to believe that everyone in the entire world switched to the metric system except for us! Good for you for sticking to inches and feet and yards and such. It would be interesting to know average garden sizes here vs. there. I think I have the biggest garden of anyone I know, but then we're surrounded by farms, so maybe the people who wanted big gardens just said "to heck with it" and became farmers.  

[iwantanallotment]

Hello again, Smojet.
You can check out pics of others' plots & gardens here http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/album.php if you like? Lots of lovely photos there.
No I haven't got an allotment yet, just a crammed little veg patch and lots of things in pots/buckets & greenhouses around the rest of the garden. I've been silly really and grown too much for the space I have. The garden is big, but I'm not allowed to dig all of it up  
Good luck with your melons. I haven't heard of those. Shame about the leeks, but sounds like you have plenty else to be going on with anyway  

[JudyAnn]

Wow, D.D., you sound like you're running a small farm! And I was always led to believe that everyone in the entire world switched to the metric system except for us! Good for you for sticking to inches and feet and yards and such. It would be interesting to know average garden sizes here vs. there. I think I have the biggest garden of anyone I know, but then we're surrounded by farms, so maybe the people who wanted big gardens just said "to heck with it" and became farmers.  

HI, Smojet!  Where in Michigan do you live? I'm from Indiana.