Vinny's Allotment Plot

Looking really great!

Can I ask about your leeks - when you sowed them? I sow feb/march and plant out in June so wondered about th advantage of planting earlier.

And probably far too late, but I freeze my excess parsnips chunked and ready for roasting, but still raw with no obvious difference in flavour or texture.

The leeks were vegetatively propagated from one seed head of leek grass.Not bad, 100 leeks from one seed head! They are clones of the parent which was my best leek last year.Planted in seed trays last October and then potted on into modules and individual pots where they have grown on in the greenhouse over winter. Put them in the cold frame about a fortnight ago to harden off. The leek was from a strain of show pot leek that I saved from oblivion when the showman died and I begged a leek off his daughter two seasons ago, just to keep the strain going.
The show men grow them on with heat and don't plant out until mid June after all danger of frost. Mine have been grown on without heat so are hard enough to go out now.

One of the show growers on our site asked if he could buy four leek plants off me when I was planting them out? I naturally wouldn't accept anything for them and he went away a happy man saying I had made his day.