Fixing leeks in the cold snap

Chilly weather can sweeten or mellow some winter vegetables, writes Fiann Ó Nualláin.

Winter has been mild enough this year but we’ve already felt a chill over the past few days. Heavy frosts will soon bitter the gardening experience yet sweeten the edible gardeners parsnips and other root crops, including overwintering onions and garlic by causing the starches in their fibres to produce more glucose molecules. Every cloud… as some say.