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My leek seedlings are about 8" high but still very thin and need thinning and re-potting. How deep should i plant them please?
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How do you know they need repotting if they are still very thin. (So are mine by the way!) -
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We don't repot, an interesting trick is to push the pot into a bed to allow the roots to grow down into the soil from the drainage holes. Otherwise just let them get on with it until you plant out...Comment
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I would also leave them alone till you are ready to plant them out...............Pic?sigpic“Gorillas are very intelligent, but they don't have to be as delicate as chimps -- they can just smash open the termite nest,”
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I find that if I leave them in a crowded pot they stay as grass thickness and will never get to the pencil stage. I always pot on into root trainers, individually and have done much better ever since.
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I'm sure this is cheating, but I just sow one to a module at the outset.
I'm dreadful at potting on. Never used to do it at the right time, always managed to kill things. So I just take a short cut and start things off in the pots or modules that I would have potted them into.Comment
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Yer basic leek is a 'fill in' crop for me.
I take them all out of the pot and plant them in a clump somewhere in a corner of a bed, a bit deeper than what they were in the pot. Keep em watered and they thicken out eventually.
Whenever I harvest another crop I stick in a few leeks which by then ARE pencil thickness.
My main leeks grown from a show strain in October are now planted out with a 1 foot space around each!My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
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Neat trick on planting them out in a clump rather than potting on. But have I understood you rightly? You sow in October? That and a foot apart must mean they grow into whoppers.Originally posted by Snadger View PostYer basic leek is a 'fill in' crop for me. I take them all out of the pot and plant them in a clump somewhere in a corner of a bed, a bit deeper than what they were in the pot. Keep em watered and they thicken out eventually. Whenever I harvest another crop I stick in a few leeks which by then ARE pencil thickness.
My main leeks grown from a show strain in October are now planted out with a 1 foot space around each!Comment
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Mine were very thin but as I was laying out the beds and planting things and sowing others I decided the leeks could go in, so in they went. All looking quite happy now - one sulked a little bit.
Since the previous 2 years the leeks have never really developed - they went in less then pencil thickness and 6 to 8 months later came out the same - I cannot see I had much to lose.Comment
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