Author Topic: Pklanted leeks.  (Read 1234 times)

grannyjanny

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Pklanted leeks.
« on: June 18, 2009, 16:21:01 »
I planted the leeks on Tuesday knowing there was going to be heavy rain yesterday. I dibbed a large hole, topped & tailed them, dropped them in & watered. The hole was so big the leeks were hardly visible after planting. Went to the plot today & the leeks have moved up the hole. Do I need to push them back in or will the roots pull them back down?

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Re: Pklanted leeks.
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2009, 17:11:50 »
if your weather is like ours, it's heaving down again now..I'd just leave them, janet, they usually sort themselves out  ;D

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Re: Pklanted leeks.
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2009, 20:33:53 »
Rain - what rain? 

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Re: Pklanted leeks.
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2009, 20:57:58 »
It's been fine here today. We went to Tatton park with eldest born & her youngest. We saw a really amusing pig with a face only a mother could love or as daughter put it, that's a face for radio ;D ;D ;D.

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Re: Pklanted leeks.
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2009, 21:39:53 »
I find watering down the hole again usually shoves them back. I assume it's birds tugging that pulls them up, bit like onion sets in Spring.

 

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