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Pulled them up too soon!

dugsa3dugsa3 Posts: 5
in Fruit & veg
Hello! First time here and first time growing leeks and red onions. They’d started to flower so I pulled them up and they’re tiny. Can they still
be used or do I need to bin them? Thanks! 

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    All the supermarkets sell baby vegetables. I don't see why not.
    You could also try replanting some. They've got plenty of roots.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Use them like spring onions - great in stir-fries etc.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Womble54Womble54 Posts: 348
    You can definitely eat them. But might be worth transplanting the leaks back into the soil in nice dibbed holes and leave them till autumn/winter.
  • dugsa3dugsa3 Posts: 5
    Thank you! 
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    eat the onions and plant the leeks back, but not any that have tried to flower, eat them too.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Skandi said:
    eat the onions and plant the leeks back, but not any that have tried to flower, eat them too.
    I agree ...  plant out the leeks as described here https://www.allotment-garden.org/vegetable/leeks-growing/

    in deep holes and don’t fill them in with soil, just water. 

    Eat the onions .. .they’ll be great in salads or stir fried. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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