I couldn't find any leek plants at the flower show but we managed to source them from a garden centre.
My new greenhouse/potting still awaits it's construction and I haven't been able to sow my own leeks this year. Bought vegetables plants are still very inexpensive especially when you get at least fifty meals out of the trays of leeks.
It's monsoon season again this week here and also very windy. At least the vegetables and plants will like all this very much needed rain.
Leeks originate in Egypt. Saint David told Welsh soldiers to wear leeks in their helmets to ward off evil. There are also tales of Welsh archers fighting in fields of leeks. This is probably why the leek is a national symbol of Wales?
I bought two trays of them and of course I purchased far too many. Just for a change.😀
We counted over fifty of them.
Any surplus ones will be fed to the pigs. I fed some going to seed leeks to them yesterday and they devoured them. Nothing goes to waste. Even the green onion tops are ate. In return they provide us with copious amounts of fym.
What winter vegetables do you grow?
I can't wait for our home grown and home-made leek and potato soup.
The plastic modules trays cost me 3 Euros each. Where else could you get fifty leeks for six Euros.
I will give them a couple of handfuls of poultry manure pellets and hand weed them and water and maybe some of our fym when it's ready to use in September.
Organic vegetable gardening is a very inexpensive hobby that you reap lots of homegrown and pesticide and chemical free.
I'm envious...none of my leek seeds germinated!
ReplyDeleteYou could still sow some leeks GZ but strong plants are good value for money. I also bought some Brussel sprouts and red cabbage plants. All good winter food.
ReplyDeleteI've only just sown my leeks, hopefully they won't take long before I can get them in the ground. I have a lovely butternut squash plant growing, first time for me, we love them in soups in the cooler months.
ReplyDeleteI have never grown butternut squash Marlene. I really miss my polytunnel to start vegetables off and to garden especially on wet and windy days like today. Last week we were praying for rain. Already we are getting tired of it. The plants and vegetables will love the rain. I will see if any new potatoes are ready this week. Some of them are flowering.
ReplyDeleteMy potatoes are flowering, I would be lost without my greenhouse.
DeleteI'm missing mine especially now it's back to the wind and rain.
DeleteAh, the rain. Be careful what you wish for!!
ReplyDeleteBetter the devil you know. I realise now why sun terraces aren't built here on the Irish Riviera JayCee.🤔
ReplyDeleteThe wind and rain arrived here as well. I keep telling myself, 'It will do the gardens good'.
ReplyDeleteLovely leeks. Hope I can grow a few next winter. One of my favourite vegetables
ReplyDeleteThey're great Linda. Especially when the starches have been changed to sugars after a frost.
DeleteI think that the leek became a symbol of Wales because when Welshmen return home from the pub late at night they usually take a leek in the street.
ReplyDeleteVery good YP. Two Welsh drunks talking: " See those two houses over there?" " Mine's the one in the middle!" That's a Jimmy Carr joke. Incidentally my great grandmother came from Wrexham.
DeleteWith your Welsh blood, I hope you did not find my leek joke offensive. In reality, I know that many Welshmen use toilets.
DeleteNot at all YP. You made me laugh. Wrexham FC is another of the teams I follow these days.
DeleteWe used to buy leek plants by the bundle, dug out of a tray and wrapped in damp newspaper. They always seemed to grow on OK but these days they are molly coddled in m pot modules and root trainers and the like.
ReplyDeleteYou raise a very good point TM. Why is everything sold in plastic module trays? What's wrong with newspaper, baling twine or wood tomato crates?
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