Planting Leeks On The Smallholding.

Me planting leeks with a metal tube on a showery Saturday afternoon.  I use the tube/dibber to make a six inch hole and drop in the leek.  Then I usually water the soil around the leek.  There is never any need to fill in the planting hole yourself  and it leaves you with a decent sized white sock on the leek.  

Me looking at the 100 or so leeks that we grew from seed in the poly tunnel.  I am going to mulch the area behind me and the polytunnel with flattened cardboard boxes.  This will be a winter plot.

Leeks are said to have originated in Egypt.  The Welsh claim they came from Wales and the Irish claim that St Patrick changed rushes into leeks to cure a dying lady.  I wonder which vegetables originated from England?  We seem to have developed a very cosmopolitan variety of vegetables over the centuries. Sir Walter Raleigh brought us the humble potato and tobacco.  How do you plant and cultivate your leeks?