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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Cock-a-leekie soup. It's hard to describe how it's different than regular 
chicken soup with onion, but it IS different. I love leeks.  I use leeks in 
soups and stews, or sauteed as a side dish with butter. I've read that some 
people harvest them small, like green onions, but around here, the bigger 
the better.

They like cool temperatures, so I don't think they'd do well in the south in 
the summer. Maybe as a winter crop? If you keep leeks a second year, they 
will go to seed, like onions.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Garden fun


> Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
>
> > I've got flats of Ailsa Craig and Walla Walla onions and Leeks started.
>
> Just curious, I know that leeks are like mild onions.  What do you use
> leeks in that a green onion wouldn't work?  Did that make sense? I've
> never really tried leeks, I don't think.  I am starting to like onions
> now, but don't understand why leeks are popular.  I recall a discussion
> here a long time ago about ramps and leeks and onions...seems that they
> perennialize?  If someone can refresh my memory on that..
>
> So tell me why I might grow leeks...
>
>
> --
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