Leeks and Parsnips

Hey Victoria,

Have never fed my leeks. Yes they do keep coming on over winter.

Best thing to keep your dad happy would be to topdress half of them with blood fish & badgermeal, then compare the results. At least you would know what, it any difference it makes for next year & hopefully you could let us know the results

Only got a couple of leeks this year, the rest are blubbing up quite nicely as white lisbon onions by the look of them

 

:cnfs: I just had to look that up!

Do you mean they're skinny? Mine are great for spring onions, pathetic for leeks! I might post a pic tomorrow.

I occasionaly throw a bit of chicken poo near them.

 

Will BF&B be fast enough chaps? I thought it was slow release?

I like the half & half idea :thumb:

"I tried an experiment and your advice was a waste of time" carries a point-score :thumb:, and "I did half the bed as you suggested, and it was much better that the other half, so I'll do the lot next year" loses no face So "win-win" as they say

 

Sorry Victoria, I just meant that there had been a mix up with the seedlings. My mate gave me a load of "leeks" to plant out, turned out most of them were onions, they look similar when they are very young. I should have spotted the difference when I planted them out, but I was completley pissed.:dh:

 

Growmore it is!

I just want to have some parsnips, cabbage and leeks on christmas day.

That will more than make up for all my failings!

 

Nice. I'm never responsibilty free enough to do 'p*ssed'!

 

Well, I'm afraid, that as much as it is a very good idea to put growmore on some and not on the others, I put it on them all! Sorry chaps!

I want leeks I can use, so I fed them all in the hope that it will work in beefing them up.

I did discover, under the leaves of my parsnips a huge amount of mushrooms. Tall thin stalked ones - seemed like hundreds of them! Is that ok? Will it render my parsnips poisonous? That may sound a stupid question but I have no idea where they came from, maybe the compos I put around them?

 

Do they look like this Victoria ?

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.morning-earth.org/graphic-E/Biosphere/FUNGI%2520IMAGES/MUSHROOMS/Coprinus-picaceusmagpie34.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.morning-earth.org/graphic-E/Biosphere/Bios-C-Fungi.html&usg=__vFPVXHQ6aSgpe4ix3aGbroNiei8=&h=378&w=348&sz=42&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=cIo23UnuwlzM5M:&tbnh=147&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmagpie%2Bmushrooms%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rlz%3D1T4GFRE_enGB370GB370%26biw%3D1345%26bih%3D438%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=126&vpy=148&dur=3613&hovh=234&hovw=215&tx=103&ty=194&ei=N9vaTNjOMcKgOq-b1cIJ&oei=INvaTJ_RI-eqhAeRuuz-Dw&esq=4&page=1&ndsp=12&ved=1t:429,r:6,s:0

Wont affect the parsnips, like you say, probably spores in the compost.

 

Yes I think so - the caps may have been a bit more closed - I'll try and find a pic

 

Here we go!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7xAs99h2suc/Si1gM1EF5BI/AAAAAAAAGkc/lbTSOi4yz1w/s1600-h/fairy2.jpg

 

You are right John, I manured it in the spring.

Although the pic is one I found on t'internet.

I just hoed them over, hope that's correct.

The problem is keeping my keen eyed toddler away from them, who usually spots them before we do! He seems to think they're dandelion clocks!