Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: A. Fallowfield on September 11, 2009, 22:16
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I'm looking at clearing a bit of space for next seasons spuds (preparation in last lunar quarter this month) so maybe I could pickle a row of leeks?
Ideas? :)
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Confused???
Don't you harvest the leeks over the winter and then this leaves the bed ready for the Potatoes in March/April?
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Confused - not half!
Lunar preparation? Never heard of that one.
Leeks are still growing, why whip them out?
As for pickling, they're soft & will just go to a mush.
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I can remember OH having a meal at his mothers where he said they had something that tasted like pickled leeks. Were they nice I asked, ' No ' he replied, ' terrible, there was more flavour in the f**ts later '. :lol:
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You've all convinced me it;s not a good idea!
I think I'll eat em instead! Had some today in the form of Glamorgan sausages! 8)
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I made some nice turkey and leek sausages earlier this year and turkey ham and leek pie is nice.
I'll swap you some turkey for some leeks!!!! Mine died as I was too busy looking after the chickens to look after my veg properly!! :(
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Just a thought, but if you really want to clear that patch, then you can freeze leeks very well.
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And you can heel them in somewhere - they last for months that way.
However, they are usually grow as a winter crop; which begs the question - why bother if you are going to get them all up early?
i thought biodynamics was about getting the best out of your plot; little point if you have to dig everything up as soon as it gets going.