The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: Jukes Mum on October 26, 2015, 02:24:11 pm
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Had a bit of a rubbish year with my veggies. My tomatoes were Ok at best, Mr Cabbage White enjoyed my cabbages, the labrador ate my whole pea crop (and raspberries!), potatoes were unimpressive etc etc.
The only thing that has done really well has been the leeks, but some of these have now bolted :rant:
What should I do? Should I pull them all up? If so, can I freeze them?
Are the ones which have bolted still edible?
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I'd pull out the flowering stalk from the middle and just leave them be - that's what I do and they're fine.
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if you leave the bolted ones in.. at the later part of next summer they will flower into great big six foot high with a ball of flowers about a foot wide... they are gorgeous.. but still smell like leeks...
if you can spare the space for them to chill out there do so just for the view.
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Thanks guys. I will pull the flowering stalk out of some and leave the rest for flowers next year :-)
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You can blanch and freeze the ones that are starting to issue stalks .
When I did ours I cut the root off and then sliced the stem top to bottom to remove the woody bit , then chopped , blanched , ice chilled , drained & froze the rest in family sized amounts in the open bags , then vac packed & heat sealed the the bags once they were frozen as it prevents the sealer sucking up free unfrozen water.
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Make a bucket of leek and potatoe soup. This will clear the ground and fill the freezer :innocent:
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Cock-a-leekie soup is lovely to freeze as well :)