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Old 09-08-2006, 04:26 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Bob Hobden wrote:

Thanks David, it's as I feared....my holiday was good for me....but not
my leeks obviously!


The flowers make nice cut flowers though, just do what the florists do and
stand them in a very week solution of bleach for a few hours to get rid of
the smell.


What smell? The bleach or the leeks? ;-)

David

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