"AriesVal" wrote in message
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On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 15:49:49 +0100, Bill P. wrote:

"Broadback" wrote in message
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It is a plant that always amazes me. You make a hole in the ground, trim
the roots down, drop the leek into the hole then fill with water. I have
never had one fail yet. I only wish all plants were as amenable!

Thats the way my grandad taught me to plant leeks.

and that's the way my father taught me too. I now save all the tubes from
toilet rolls and kitchen paper, and after dibbing a hole for leeks I
insert
a cardboard tube before planting the leek which helps the white part of
the
leek swell and develop without soil falling in and cramping its growth.

That is interesting, I must try to remember that!

Alan



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