Carrots to follow spuds in growbags?

[selfraising]

I have four of the spud type growbags with first earlies in them. Can I plant these with Autumn Kind carrots when the spuds have finished or do I have to dump the compost and start afresh? If I can, should I be adding anything fertiliser wise or topping up with fresh compost?

Thanks in advance

[Elaineb]

I have four of the spud type growbags with first earlies in them. Can I plant these with Autumn Kind carrots when the spuds have finished or do I have to dump the compost and start afresh? If I can, should I be adding anything fertiliser wise or topping up with fresh compost?

Thanks in advance

I will be interested in the answer selfraising, as I would like to do this too!!

Elaine xx

[Caro]

I want to know too! Can any of you experts out there advise if there is anything we can plant into our potato planters, once we've harvested the spuds?

Thanks

[hamsterqueen]

give it a try, nothing to lose except a few carrot seeds

[taff]

Carrots dont need much in the way of fertiliserdo they?
I'll giveit a go when the spuds comeout of the bags, it always seems like such a waste to me to fill a bag with compost, then chuck it on the beds.

[gorgeousgrower]

I've grown a few carrots in a tub which housed last year's broad beans. Don't think I gave it any extra fertiliser and they're doing really well.

Gonna try the spud bag method too I think.

[solway cropper]

I always get at least 2 crops from my tattie containers. Carrots, beetroot, peas, salad crops, chard...there's so much you can put in but you need to choose crops with a relatively short growing season. If you've just used MPC in the bags you will need to feed many second crops but a handfull of BFB or chicken manure mixed in will work fine.

[selfraising]

Thanks all. If I remember rightly it was a mix of mpc and manure, think I will give it a go with the carrots as I am really short of space in the garden and as with you Taff, I hate to think of it being wasted.

[Nicos]

*Don't add any extra nutrient...the carrots will fork!!!!*

....just check the compost for snail eggs- and any other bugs!

[northepaul]

That sounds like a good idea!

[selfraising]

Thanks Nicos, good thinking but what do snail eggs look like???

[solway cropper]

*Don't add any extra nutrient...the carrots will fork!!!!*

Recent experimental work has shown that the biggest cause of carrot roots forking is when they hit stones. Fresh manure is probably not a good idea but a sprinkle of BFB will do no harm. It works for me.

[Nicos]

Thanks Nicos, good thinking but what do snail eggs look like???

here ya go!

happy hunting!

[Sheepish]

Last year I put some cut and come again salad leaves in two ex potato bags (worked fine) and some winter radish in others (not so good, I had probably overcroweded them). If I remember right I originally intended to put carrots in but having discovered and loved the big radishes I went for those instead.

[chris]

Cool thanks for the ideas, I was just going to sling my compost in a corner, or add some to the compost bin