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Serpent leeks - never grown these before! Fascinating things - as they're about to flower, the heads rear up like serpents about to strike.
Quite rare, it seems.
If you say so veggie!
I'm with Indiana Jones on this one...........I HATE snakes!
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The Serpent leeks are still alive and growing - despite being out of the ground and not watered for over a month.
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At the base of the leek the baby serpent eggs are growing, each of these will hatch and grow into another Serpent leek.
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The flowers are attracting bees and hoverflies, maybe there'll be some serpent seeds too.
I put mine in the compost heap and they were buried under other compost material. They still managed to rear there heads through the rest of the compost.
They like somewhere warm to hatch.
If you get enough serpent leek seeds to share. I’d be very happy to find some in my seed swap collection
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You probably have some already.
(22-07-2021, 08:33 AM)Veggie Wrote: [ -> ]You probably have some already.
If there not Musselburgh then I don’t have them
. I think you should just change their name to serpent leeks officially. Big seed companies do it all the time. Don’t see why you can’t
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Not sure what their original name was - maybe Bleu de solaise from Real seeds?
I've created Serpents from all sorts of leeks - its a simple technique, perfect for the lazy and forgetful gardener.