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- From: "Shawnee Flowerfarmer" <farmingflowers AT hotmail.com>
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- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] leeks
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:29:09 -0600
Leek flowers, like all the allium family, make great cut flowers. If the flower stalk is hollow and won't stay submerged, use a needle to put a small hole two or three inches below the flower head; this allows the stalk to fill with water. Garlic chives also make beautiful cut flowers. ( Sometimes I have used the entire plant, with roots well washed, in arrangements. Also as a Bloody Mary garnish!)
As Dorene suggested, save the seed too, but dry it well and store very cold/airtight. Allium seed can be short lived. I would also allow some seed to remain in the ground over winter. You may get lucky and have it germinate in the spring. I frequently do this with lettuce which gives me the very earliest crop of lettuce possible. (Yes, lettuce is gorgeous as a cut flower too. Nobody can guess what it is. )
Shawnee, zone 5 more or less
From: "Sue Wells" <quiltingsue AT earthlink.net>
Reply-To: quiltingsue AT earthlink.net,Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] leeks
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:26:37 -0500
>
>Last year I left quite a few leeks in the ground, will these do the same as
>onions and regrow? I am in Vermont, there are green parts to them now as
>there has been off and on all winter.
>
>Thank you.
>
>Sue Wells
>
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[Market-farming] global warming - way off topic,
Bock, Paul, 03/23/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] leeks,
Sue Wells, 03/23/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] leeks, Alliums, 03/23/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] leeks, Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 03/23/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] global warming - way off topic,
logrock, 03/24/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] global warming - way off topic,
Jill Bussiere, 03/24/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] global warming - way off topic, steve, 03/24/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] global warming - way off topic,
Jill Bussiere, 03/24/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] leeks,
Sue Wells, 03/23/2006
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