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Now that i have dug up my early potato's i have 2 nice sized raised beds (1.5m x 3m each) with very nice looking soil but not a clue as to what to plant in them now. Any ideas.?
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hope they taste nice ...
as I'll soon be digging mine up .... sits patiently and waits for responsesLass
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Unless you have any leek seedlings looking for a home why not grow some lettuce or spinach or dwarf beans or spring cabbage or.....Comment
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I normally sow a tray of leeks on the day I put the first earlies in, it means they're ready at exactly the right time. Probably a little too late for you this year, but something to think about next season. Other than that it largely depends upon what you're going to use the bed for next time, if it's going to be something that needs to go in early, onions for example, then spring cabbage might hog the space when you need it, but most salad things are fast growing and will give you a quick crop.Into each life some rain must fall........but this is getting ridiculous.
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I've got some dwarf beans in to reaplce the tatties....Never test the depth of the water with both feet
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Great ideas. Keep em coming. Like the idea of Spring Cabbage though.Comment
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Have you got any plants or seedlings lurking about looking for a home?Originally posted by timmyalex View PostComment
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I'm giving some late-ish parsnips a go in one of our beds - intersown with a few rows of radish so we've some return in the meantime, they should be good for some nice, tender Christmas roasters. Another bed's sown with beetroot, and it'll be followed with either spring cabbage or autumn broad beans, depending on how long we leave the beet in for.
Like the idea of beans, though - might start some off this week meself, get a last crop in before it gets cold......Comment
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I planted a couple of squash plants where my earlies have been dug up from.
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Is spring cabbage OK? I thought brassicas don't like following potatoes as they need very firm soil. If they are OK I'll be straight off to my local florist / garden supplies shop that does a dozen seedlings for £1.85.Today's mistake is tomorrow's compost...Comment
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A size 12 boot soon firms the soil for spring cabbage. I think the norm with most people is potatoes followed by leeks. You could keep it a few more weeks and plant up with over winter onions and garlic.
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Just lifted 3 rows of spuds- leeks just about ready to go in."Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple
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I put sweetcorn and squash in after my first earlies. I always get thrown by the idea of doing leeks as it would mess up my rotation. How do you make that work?Comment
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I make it work by having a 4 course rotation which is legumes followed by brassicas followed by potatoes followed by roots (largely alliums). Heavy feeders such as squash and pumpkins go in the brassica bed, sweetcorn and a few other bits and bobs go in with the roots. Things such as beetroot and radish go in small raised beds along the plot edge and are rotated with various salad crops like lettuce. Carrots and parsnips go in baths. I suppose what I call the roots bed should really be 'miscellaneous' as, onions and leeks apart, there aren't really any root crops in it.Originally posted by FoxHillGardener View PostLast edited by bluemoon; 20-07-2009, 10:20 PM.Into each life some rain must fall........but this is getting ridiculous.Comment
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How about trying out some late sown climbing beans somewhere? You are south enough to get away with this.
Last week I sowed my second crop of climbing beans in containers that had just been vacated - one for runners one for french and one complete experiment with yard long beans. They are up and growing fast already [especially the yard long beans].
I did this last year and they cropped for around 7 weeks, until the end of October - well after the early sown beans had given up the ghost.
You don't get lots in containers, but you have beds. Fresh beans in October takes some beating.
Also sowing later means no blackfly and far less of the over heavy foliage - just easily visible beans.Comment
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