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Old 11-03-2003, 07:48 PM
Nick Maclaren
 
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Default Blanching leeks!

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Alan Holmes see sig for reply address wrote:


Yes I know it sounds like a cooking question but it isn't!

I have a number of leeks in the ground which were set out last year,
they seem to be growing well but as expected the growth above
ground is all green.

Can I do anything with them to make the above ground growth white
and thus be more to eat?


Not now. But why do you regard the green as inedible? It most assuredly
isn't.

I seem to remember that gardeners used to wrap something like
newspaper round them to encourage the white edible part.

Is my memory correct and is there still time to do that?


Yes and no.


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