Advice on planting leeks please!

As an alternative to dibbing holes and planting them you can put a piece of downpipe size pipe over them with the leek plant at ground level.

This is a show technique and ensures that no earth gets in them. It is too fiddly for normal crops.

Do not backfill the pipe. The pipe should never cover more than 2/3rds of the plant. Start with 8 inch pipes and either change them for longer ones or add sections held on with gaffer tape.

If this is done where you sow without transplanting it is quite a relevation how much bigger these are than the same batch dibbed into holes. Transplanting and dibbing check the plants more than we think.