Two days of hard frost and yesterday, for the first time that I can remember, I had to use a crowbar to lift leeks. !! Actually it wasn't a crowbar but a buckrake tine, and even then it took me the best part of an hour and a half to lift the 48 leeks required !!! Neither my fork nor spade would dent the ground but as the leeks were required for boxes, they had to be lifted, hence the desperate measures. Sure it would have made a funny photo, but I wasn't laughin at the time !!