Leek query

[piskieinboots]

D... I am a trimmer, 1 because it is easier to get them into the dibbed hole and 2 they stand up better with the tops trimmed.

..and now I want to follow you as well

[Pies]

If you dip the roots in water before droping into the hole they drop in nice and easy

[Flummery]

I don't trim. Anything that involves an extra job has to have a very good and provable reason for doing it!

[zazen999]

I do trim, because they are invariably tangled up so I rip the roots off and plant. I do take the tops off otherwise they flop over in the hole.

I don't think it matters either way though - each to their own....they will still grow won't they!

[Snadger]

I do trim, because they are invariably tangled up so I rip the roots off and plant. I do take the tops off otherwise they flop over in the hole.

I don't think it matters either way though - each to their own....they will still grow won't they!

Hows your 'leek lawn' doing Zaz? All still going according to plan?

[vegnut]

I grow mine in a tray, so invariably i have to rip them apart and rinse them in water. So i find that a lot of the root is pulled out anyway. That is all i do. Leeks are pretty bomb proof.

[zazen999]

Hows your 'leek lawn' doing Zaz? All still going according to plan?

You mean the plan that went awol when we had the contaminated manure?

I put my leeks in this year in closer and more random fashion....and yes they are growing nicely.

My theory now is that they are grown x inches apart because it is easier to harvest the bigger ones and leave the smaller to grow on - rather than them needing x inches in between for any other reason. So if you are going to harvest say from one edge and work inwards they should be fine.

I'm on the cusp of clearing every bed soon, putting loads of green manure down and starting again in the spring. I have 4 huge GM bags ready and waiting......I just can't bear to see some of the crops not doing well because of that poison.....it's heartbreaking.

[Snadger]

You mean the plan that went awol when we had the contaminated manure?

I put my leeks in this year in closer and more random fashion....and yes they are growing nicely.

My theory now is that they are grown x inches apart because it is easier to harvest the bigger ones and leave the smaller to grow on - rather than them needing x inches in between for any other reason. So if you are going to harvest say from one edge and work inwards they should be fine.

I'm on the cusp of clearing every bed soon, putting loads of green manure down and starting again in the spring. I have 4 huge GM bags ready and waiting......I just can't bear to see some of the crops not doing well because of that poison.....it's heartbreaking.

I thought you had a perennial leek bed where you just kept cutting the tops off with a bit of white and letting the leeks grow on? Are you saying you mulched this with the dogy manure?

[zazen999]

No - we had to take them out because the area was clean and we had to use it.