Thread: Why House Leeks?
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Old 01-06-2008, 03:24 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Why House Leeks?
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Rusty Hinge 2 writes:
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| | I was at a plant sale over the weekend and during a quiet
time was
| | talking to Mark Walsh of Trecanna nurseries and he sells
House Leeks
| | (among other things) none of us in the group knew why they
have their
| | common name, The House bit it ok as people grew them on
roofs etc but
| | Leek?
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| I understand that they were grown on roofs because it was believed they
| kept lightning away.

Clearly a predecessor of paper bags, then.

I thought they discouraged the pink elephants?

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