nowt wrong with my leeks this last year im in a leek show and i won best leek in show and came 4th overall with 2 leeks also came 2nd&3rd with my dressed onions
my leeks also suffered this year what i got were only the size of large spring onions!!!! and the later ones had all gone rotten in the middle (looked lovely from the outside) dont know what caused this dave
thanks tommelco for the advice for leek moth deterrent- nearly everyone lost their leeks on our allotments this year- mine disappeared without hardly a trace, and i had covered them with environmesh- but not well enouth apparently!
In the 8 years that we grow our own vegetables, this is the first year that our leeks have failed. They are the size of spring onions. All our other crops - and we grow almost everything - have done well. I blame the dry weather that we had in July, here in Cambridgeshire. No warming leek and potato soups for us this winter.
Sounds as if many of you were a bit disappointed with last year's crop, here's to the 2011 crop....and well done to those whose were as good as ever! I have to say, mine are still being enjoyed here and the flavour is faultless....albeit the portions smaller!
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Also Broccoli doing nothing tempted to dig up.
fairy liquid to4 ltrs of water spray leeks and moths cannot lay eggs on your produce
dave