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I've seen pictures of leeks, standing proudly in their final positions, growing tall and strong wearing carboard tubes 
and this morning, I've planted out 38 leeks and used my 28 strong toilet roll tube collection to adorn most of them 
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But why have I done this? I can't find a reference to carboard tubes in my gardening books and although I found a picture of leeks in their evening attire in a GYO from May (I think), I can't find a reference to the picture or why the tubes are used
, within the magazine itself.
My common sense (yes I do have some - not much but a little), tells me that it's either to:
1) Encourage the leeks to grow straight and tall whilst protecting them from the wind; or
2) To protect them from the over enthusiastic bug hunting activites of the birds (Mrs Blackbird in my case - you should see the holes she keeps digging into my potato mounds which I then have to back fill!); or
3) Protection from slugs; or
4) A 'clean' way to get longer white sections (not really convinced of this at all).
Or may it's for some other reason I haven't yet been able to fathom. So come on you leek boffins please tell me why I've done this, as one sight of my tube decorated leek bed has stopped my OH obsessing about mother rat long enough to thnk I've lost MY marbles
.
Thanks
Reet
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and this morning, I've planted out 38 leeks and used my 28 strong toilet roll tube collection to adorn most of them .But why have I done this? I can't find a reference to carboard tubes in my gardening books and although I found a picture of leeks in their evening attire in a GYO from May (I think), I can't find a reference to the picture or why the tubes are used
, within the magazine itself.My common sense (yes I do have some - not much but a little), tells me that it's either to:
1) Encourage the leeks to grow straight and tall whilst protecting them from the wind; or
2) To protect them from the over enthusiastic bug hunting activites of the birds (Mrs Blackbird in my case - you should see the holes she keeps digging into my potato mounds which I then have to back fill!); or
3) Protection from slugs; or
4) A 'clean' way to get longer white sections (not really convinced of this at all).
Or may it's for some other reason I haven't yet been able to fathom. So come on you leek boffins please tell me why I've done this, as one sight of my tube decorated leek bed has stopped my OH obsessing about mother rat long enough to thnk I've lost MY marbles
.Thanks
Reet
x
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