[Jay The Digger]

I know this has been posted before, so forgive me.

I have about 100 plants, all affected to some degree.  I have heard that trimming it right down to a couple of inches may save them, however can you do this so late in the year?

I am worried that as the days shorten they won't have time to recover....

Next year, they are going under enviromesh, and to hell with the cost.

[Pompey Spud]

You only trim them to the lowest damaged point.

Will still grow to some extent but don't you eat mostly the blanched length?

[mashauk]

I've also got it again, 3 years running now, so trying them in a fleeced bath next year, or won't bother if that doesn't work.  Not sure about trimming them down, I've just dug mine out and will give them a good wash and salvage what I can in a soup, but some have been got at so badly they've pretty much disappeared!

[rickman]

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=44766.0

Try this..since trimming mine have made 8-10 inches of new top growth and are still thickening up.

[mashauk]

Drat, I wish I'd seen that post before I dug out my leeks!

Oh well, there's always next year