what do you plant to follow on from peas?

**OllieMartin** · 09-02-2010, 02:29 PM

I employ a 4 bed rotation, so I'll be putting my cabbages and broccoli in the old legume bed this season...
...As soon as I get the netting sorted.

**WeeGarden** · 09-02-2010, 02:43 PM

When my pathetic 20 pea plants are cleared, I shall be sowing pak choi.

**SarzWix** · 09-02-2010, 02:47 PM

I grow tall (6ft) peas, so they keep cropping for a lot longer (and, I've never seen a pea-moth thankfully). So what I do is raise winter/spring brassicas in cell trays, and then plant them out once the peas are over.

**zazen999** · 09-02-2010, 02:48 PM

Whatever is next that needs to go out.......

**Two_Sheds** · 09-02-2010, 03:55 PM

I plant pumpkins wherever a gap appears on the plot

**kentvegplot** · 10-02-2010, 08:43 AM

Put leeks in after my peas last year (grew tall purple-podded)...seemed to work well

**marathon** · 10-02-2010, 11:27 AM

Originally posted by SarzWix View Post

I grow tall (6ft) peas, so they keep cropping for a lot longer (and, I've never seen a pea-moth thankfully). So what I do is raise winter/spring brassicas in cell trays, and then plant them out once the peas are over.

oh so maybe I'm doing it right then

**SarzWix** · 10-02-2010, 12:06 PM

Most brassicas are happy to be held in cell trays or pots until you're ready for them: I read an article about a professional grower who grows plug plants for farmers and nurseries, and he was saying he just sows all of them all at once, and then just keeps them watered and lightly fed until the customer wants them, sometimes a couple of months or more later.
So I gave it a go, and found that cabbages/broccoli/calabrese/brussels/kale were all happy enough with that method. Swedes were ok too, but won't sit and wait for quite so long without affecting final size.

**Snadger** · 10-02-2010, 12:52 PM

Supposedly any brassica that will make use of the fixated nitrogen stored by the legumes. In reality the winter rains will have probably leached out all the fixated nitro anyway.......so plant anything that ISN'T a legume!

**Alison** · 10-02-2010, 12:59 PM

Originally posted by SarzWix View Post

I grow tall (6ft) peas, so they keep cropping for a lot longer (and, I've never seen a pea-moth thankfully). So what I do is raise winter/spring brassicas in cell trays, and then plant them out once the peas are over.

That's what I do too

Originally posted by Snadger View Post

Supposedly any brassica that will make use of the fixated nitrogen stored by the legumes. In reality the winter rains will have probably leached out all the fixated nitro anyway.......so plant anything that ISN'T a legume!

But the brassicas go in BEFORE the winter rains so not a problem

***Lavender*** · 10-02-2010, 02:09 PM

I was planning on putting in tomatoes & basil after the peas & broadbeans were finished. Does that sound ok?

Then, once the French & runner beans are out put in Spring cabbages (sown in pots or nursery bed in Jul/Aug?)

Once the tomatoes are done the bed will be empty till Spring (apart from the spring cabbage). Would I also be able to put purple sprouting broccoli in here? When does that need to go out into the beds?

I can see this all beginning to get very complicated!

**marathon** · 10-02-2010, 02:45 PM

Originally posted by Alison View Post

That's what I do too

But the brassicas go in BEFORE the winter rains so not a problem

Yes that is what I meant. Last year for the first time I transplanted all my brassicas into the beds as I cleared my peas. I kept a few pea roots in the soil but for the most pulled them up I fed the soil with homemade liquid chicken manure and then left. I had my best ever brassicas so thought I'd do the same this year more so because I'm going to to try to fit in over 120ft of peas.

I can still move the above mentioned beds around on a four year rotation so wouldn't have the peas/brassica's planted in the same place for 4 years. However some old timers think I've lost the plot

buy growing like this.

hope that makes sense

Originally posted by *Lavender* View Post

I was planning on putting in tomatoes & basil after the peas & broadbeans were finished. Does that sound ok?

Then, once the French & runner beans are out put in Spring cabbages (sown in pots or nursery bed in Jul/Aug?)

Once the tomatoes are done the bed will be empty till Spring (apart from the spring cabbage). Would I also be able to put purple sprouting broccoli in here? When does that need to go out into the beds?

I can see this all beginning to get very complicated!

sounds alright to me

**Snadger** · 10-02-2010, 03:30 PM

Originally posted by Alison View Post

That's what I do too

But the brassicas go in BEFORE the winter rains so not a problem

Sorry,I assumed you meant for planting summer brassicas not winter brassicas!

**Alison** · 10-02-2010, 06:10 PM

Originally posted by Snadger View Post

Sorry,I assumed you meant for planting summer brassicas not winter brassicas!

Ah, that would make sense - don't do summer brassicas much as there's soooo much other stuff I want to eat at that time of year that I don't have time for cabbage etc.

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