leeks are amazing

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flitwickone

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leeks are amazing
« on: April 24, 2010, 12:12 »
mine are growin very slowly but are growing  :D its an amazing plant   they are like pets to me in away

great plant well done mother nature

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Jai

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Re: leeks are amazing
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2010, 12:29 »
I spend so long growing and looking after my leeks  that if always feel a bit guilty pulling them up. They are so useful that i have  always got some growing from seed, some maturing and some ready to pull.
My wife made all the pies, then I ate them!!!

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Re: leeks are amazing
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2010, 12:57 »
My first batch were put into a corner of one of my beds ready for the winter.

I went to a garden this week that is in a self sustainable community, and they bang the leeks all in together - they were harvesting them and you couldn't get a fag paper in between them. they all push each other apart and not a mm of spare space is wasted.

None of this 3 inches between and dib them all in individually......it's module grown and bang the modules in and leave them to it.

No more am I spending cold wet days separating them out - I'm going to be using this method now and in preparation, I put modules of onions into their final position last night module by module.

What a great way to grow Veg :D

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Re: leeks are amazing
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2010, 13:14 »
zazen - show us pictures at the end of the season - what are overall yields like, so they grow smaller than average packed so closely together? More importantly what's the situation with respect to disease?

>they are like pets to me
flitwickone  - someone else on this site described them as being like a row of soldiers with black helmets - the comparison is a good one in my opinion

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Re: leeks are amazing
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2010, 14:11 »
 Have a packet of leek seeds planted in a 70ish litre container. Checked this morning & they are all pocking their lil green heads up. cant wait to transplant them on.
I generaly just stick things in the ground green side up.

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zazen999

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Re: leeks are amazing
« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2010, 18:17 »
zazen - show us pictures at the end of the season - what are overall yields like, so they grow smaller than average packed so closely together? More importantly what's the situation with respect to disease?


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Well, this garden is totally organic and there was no disease present; and the sizes were just the same as mine grown 3 inches apart. In fact, bigger [but then again, they were further South].

They told me that they went in the soil in November last year; and they were a good supermarket size when they harvested some on Tuesday.

Which is why I was so amazed; if they were smaller I wouldn't have been so flabbergasted.



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