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    What are you growing next?

    Having grown 'a bit of everything' last year, this year I decided to grow stuff that would definitely last, and definitely get eaten. So I've got a mega crop of garlic (well, it would be if we'd had any rain in April, instead we seem to have fairly meagre sized garlic), onions, and potatoes. Which is going to leave me with a lot of spare ground in the next few weeks - probably about 1/2 - 2/3 of my site. The last couple of years I've replaced the potatoes (which cropped earlier than this year) with sweetcorn but they've been destroyed by wasps... so any good ideas as to what to put in next? I've got a few bean plants and leeks which will be ok to transplant soon, put in but really need some inspiration to replace a lot of space in the earlies, which will be coming up in the next few weeks.

    What are you growing next?
    Have a look at my allotment blog
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    Leeks are good after potatoes. You may have to buy them now though
    WPC F Hobbit, Shire police

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    • #3
      Lots of baby leeks starting up in my seedling area
      Have a look at my allotment blog

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      • #4
        PSB and leeks arer sitting waiting for a spot thats vacated by something else and will soon be sowing Spring cabbage!
        My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
        to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

        Diversify & prosper


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        • #5
          Leeks, fennel and PSB are waiting in the wings, then will be sowing some chicory, radicchio, chinese cabbage and spring cabbage.
          S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
          a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

          You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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          • #6
            Many people seem to plant carrots where their earlies have been. Or is that just if the potatoes were in growbags? I'm certainly going to try it when my charlottes are finally ready.
            Caro

            Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day

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            • #7
              I didn't know that wasps ate sweetcorn seedlings...?

              I have loads of pumpkins waiting in the wings to go in any gaps, French beans for drying, leeks & brassicas too
              All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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              • #8
                Not the seedlings, but the very day the corn is ready to pick, they get ravaged by something. I thought it was rodents, or at least birds, but one of my fellow plotters saw swarms of wasps at them. I know, sounds unlikely, but two years on a row I've lost all my sweetcorn... I don't want it to happen again!
                Have a look at my allotment blog

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