Topic: I'm not one for fatties -

[tim]

Prefer them long & lean!!

[saddad]

Good looking Leek Tim, what variety?
 8)

[Georgie]

Nice looking Leek, Tim.  How do you keep 'em so clean?   ;)

G x

[tim]

Dad - Musselburgh - was given them this year.

Georgie - that's with the outside skin off.

And they are in a newly dug pasture bed to avoid the dreaded ROT - 12" deep.

[Hyacinth]

Lovely Tim! Bet mine would be looking like that if I'd taken them out of their pot and planted them out earlier :-[  I'm growing Musselburgh too, think I planted out about 100. I like leeks :D

[MattyJC]

Thats a cracking leak Tim, did you manage to avoid any rust on them? My Musselburgh have a fair bit on the leaves...although they still taste great!

Regards

Matt

[grawrc]

Lovely looking leek Tim. I prefer them not to big and fat as well. I love them braised with a bit of butter and lemon. Just as good cold as hot!

I've got some little Musselburgh in and rather bigger and almost ready to eat Bandit which are looking very good. I took my camera along today but didn't get a chance to take any photos. The skies opened and we got soaked to the skin. maybe tomorrow.

[tim]

Matt - the outer skin was showing signs of something - don't know what.

[MrsKP]

am i supposed to be having trouble pulling my Musselburgh's out ?

I start tugging gently, then wiggling and waggling around, tug a bit harder and then a bit harder still and out it pops, but usually snapped at the roots.

i've still got half a dozen or so still in, outer skins look a bit manky, for want of a better word, but always lovely once the first layer or two is off.

[grawrc]

I always find them tricky KP if I've planted them deep (to get big white bits), but I'm only wee! ;)

[MrsKP]

i suppose i should be grateful that i've only lost roots, after all i'm not showing, i'm eating  ;D

[manicscousers]

we had a broken fork so ray cut it down for leeks, it now has 2 prongs, just the thing

[Robert_Brenchley]

I don't tug mine; I lever gently with a fork. That's my usual technique for getting anything which is either deep-rooted, or planted very deep, and the only time it fails is with extreme cases like a big parsnip. Then I employ the nuclear option; the spade. It's almost the only thing I use it for these days.

[supersprout]

That is a beaut tim. Kaypee, I learned last year that leeks are supposed to be dug, not pulled :-[
Old habits die hard though ;)

[tim]

Positively DIG!!

And start well out & deep - nothing more infuriating than scarring a thing of beauty like that.

[MattyJC]

I shall post a picture of my rusty leaks later Tim, if I get the chance to pop up lottie. I have a feeling the have something else too, we can compare!

regards

Matt

[bellebouche]

That's splendid!

I'm several months off having anything close to that!

[MrsKP]

my leeks are in a very large pot so not suitable for digging, so i shall attack them with a hand fork.  thanks for the tips !