I know someone here mentioned the trick of sticking a toilet roll around a leek to keep more of the base nice and white instead of green.

At what stage do you do this?? If you can express it in terms of the diameter of the leek.. even better :)

do it when you plant them out. Although I just plant mine as deep as I can.

bluegreen said:

do it when you plant them out. Although I just plant mine as deep as I can.

Hmm.. darn :) Better late then never then!

It wasn’t until after I’d planted them out that I learnt you can plant them deeply – too used to be careful about collar rot! :)

Thanks BG, I’ll stick rolls on them ASAP.

Leeks are usually transplanted into a deeper furrow after they have grown.. this may be done more than once.

I often cut the leek and leave the roots.. so that it will regrow.

roughbarked said:

Leeks are usually transplanted into a deeper furrow after they have grown.. this may be done more than once.

I often cut the leek and leave the roots.. so that it will regrow.

Thanks RB – I have done this with spring onion but wasn’t sure if it worked with leeks too.

I think we may have stuffed up when planting the leeks out as seedlings – we didn’t separate the tiny babies out and now we have clusters of leeks all growing together. Whoops. Oh well, planning to start growing things from seed from this point on, rather than buying little seedlings.

bon008 said:

roughbarked said:

Leeks are usually transplanted into a deeper furrow after they have grown.. this may be done more than once.

I often cut the leek and leave the roots.. so that it will regrow.

Thanks RB – I have done this with spring onion but wasn’t sure if it worked with leeks too.

I think we may have stuffed up when planting the leeks out as seedlings – we didn’t separate the tiny babies out and now we have clusters of leeks all growing together. Whoops. Oh well, planning to start growing things from seed from this point on, rather than buying little seedlings.

replant them, as RB said, can be done more than once!

bluegreen said:

bon008 said:

roughbarked said:

Leeks are usually transplanted into a deeper furrow after they have grown.. this may be done more than once.

I often cut the leek and leave the roots.. so that it will regrow.

Thanks RB – I have done this with spring onion but wasn’t sure if it worked with leeks too.

I think we may have stuffed up when planting the leeks out as seedlings – we didn’t separate the tiny babies out and now we have clusters of leeks all growing together. Whoops. Oh well, planning to start growing things from seed from this point on, rather than buying little seedlings.

replant them, as RB said, can be done more than once!

Hmm, there’s an idea. Might mention that to Mr Bon and see if he can be bothered helping. How deep can you plant them?? or to put it another way – how much leaf should you leave showing?