leeks seeds up, what to do with them now?

**stella** · 04-02-2011, 11:35 AM

Thanks for all the advice, I shall give it a try

**tumbling tom** · 04-02-2011, 12:07 PM

Originally posted by stella View Post

Thanks for all the advice, I shall give it a try

Hey, did I miss something. I am quite interested in this too.

**Aberdeenplotter** · 04-02-2011, 12:49 PM

Originally posted by stella View Post

Thanks for all the advice, I shall give it a try

Did someone withdraw a post?

leek and onion seedlings seem to do best when their roots are against the side of a pot and so it is best to pot on into small pots and only pot on again when they really need to be in a bigger pot.

Personally, I've never heard of cut and come again leeks and I'm off to try to find them.

**Aberdeenplotter** · 04-02-2011, 12:55 PM

The only reference I can see is a suggestion that a leek affected by onion root fly can be cut below the maggot damaged area and it will come again. Yes that is true.

When putting an exhibition onion down to seed, we cut them off 6 - 9 inches above the rootplate and they do then grow again the following year, but they do then bolt and throw a seed head which of course is what we are trying to get it to do.

**Florence Fennel** · 04-02-2011, 05:31 PM

I sow mine quite thinly in a family-size mushroom carton Stella, then I leave them until they are thickening up a bit and are big enough to dib into separate holes. Takes quite a while.

**Two_Sheds** · 04-02-2011, 07:17 PM

Originally posted by Aberdeenplotter View Post

I've never heard of cut and come again leeks

I cut and come again my leeks. It was in response to leek moth damage, now I do it routinely

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