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    Hello all, I've been given some healthy looking, tho' very thin leeks in a pot today. I wondered if it was worth planting them, or is it too late? (or too early!!) Any advice gratefully received. Thanks. Murray

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    I'm sure that they will be fine, Murray - dib a 6" ish deep hole with a ....well, whatever comes to hand, like broomstick handle (I use) - then drop each leek down the 'ole. Water in.
    Last edited by Hazel at the Hill; 12-08-2007, 04:52 PM. Reason: sp!

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    • #3
      Hope it isn't too late, mine are in a bucket waiting for a bit of ground to come free. Wonder if I would be okay to plant them where they were last winter - it has had peas in it all summer?
      Happy Gardening,
      Shirley

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      • #4
        Mine was only planted last wednesday go for it jacob
        What lies behind us,And what lies before us,Are tiny matters compared to what lies Within us ...
        Ralph Waide Emmerson

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        • #5
          Cheers for that Jacob.
          Happy Gardening,
          Shirley

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          • #6
            I think they will be fine Murray. Leeks will stand all winter, so you can harvest them as baby leeks as veg for the dinner table , or leave them to grow as soup leeks.

            From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

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            • #7
              thanks for the advice.The trouble is, they're as thin as a piece of thin stuff! Like a thin piece of wire. (Quite thin really) and I,m scared they will just vanish into the earth. I'll make the holes v. small and thin and see what happens.

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              • #8
                You could try just transplanting them on the flat to allow them to grow a bit, then earth them up when they are a bit bigger You could put paper or cardboard collars round them before you earth them up to keep them clean.

                Best of luck
                Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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                • #9
                  Mine were really thin when I planted the a few weeks ago, but they're starting to fatten up quite quickly really so I'd go for it.
                  Newbie gardener in Cumbria.
                  Just started my own website on gardening:

                  http://angie.weblobe.net/Gardening/

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