Leeks in the Making

You can't have Leek and Potato Soup without leeks.  Leeks are in the allium family and look like green onions on steroids.  They taste like a mild onion but never make a bulb.  The unfortunate thing about leeks is that they take SO LONG to mature.  If you waited until you could sow the seed outside, you wouldn't have mature leeks until well into the fall.  For this reason, Tom starts them in trays under lights and then transplants them into the garden early in the spring.  Below you can see the baby leeks that he sowed several weeks ago.  They are doing nicely and will be ready to transplant into the garden in March.  What we really, really need right now is for it to stop raining/snowing and let the ground dry out so we can get in there and start planting next month.