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  • #1

    What follows your early potatoes?

    I have a bed of charlottes in, presumably they'll be coming up mid-July... but what do you guys put in the ground after they're up, that doesn't mess up the rotation?

    :-) Thanks in advance for the tips....
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    I usually plan to plant out leeks, but don't get round to lifting all the potatoes in time and end up just growing weeds instead.
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    • #3
      I follow my first early potatoes with Leeks, but Charlottes are not that early, so I think I'd follow with dwarf French beans, started in pots at the end of June.
      You could also grow chard or perpetual spinach

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      • #4
        I have some perpetual spinach that will be ready as soon as the tatties are out of the tubs, I stopped growing them in the ground for balance reasons, easier to cope with..

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        • #5
          I grow my early tatties in old recycling containers - they do fantastically well and it frees up space in my raised beds for other things.

          I have used the same tubs to grow courgettes afterwards though - they are less suited to a container but still do ok.

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          • #6
            Dwarf French beans started earlier in modules and/or lettuce.

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            • #7
              Dwarf french beans, always room for another row or two of peas (herself can't get enough of them).

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              • #8
                Lettuce, chicory and endive.
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                • #9
                  I'm planning on putting some Kale in which I Will sow in late May in 9cm pots. By the time the first earlies are ready to come out at the start of July, the kale should be ready to plant out in their place.

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                  • #10
                    Just salad crops, and scallions as long as they continue to grow.

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                    • #11
                      Possibly leeks, PSB,french beans,kale,japanese onions,spring cabbage.........................just about anything really!
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                      • #12
                        Broccoli that has been started in smaller pots often goes in after the early potatoes, also spring cabbage, chinese celery or corn salad. You could also sow autumn salad leaves such as pak choi, mizuna etc.
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                        • #13
                          Various salad greens and sometimes a spare courgette that I can't bear to bin

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                          • #14
                            Thanks all! Useful Intel....

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by GBax View Post
                              I grow my early tatties in old recycling containers - they do fantastically well and it frees up space in my raised beds for other things.

                              I have used the same tubs to grow courgettes afterwards though - they are less suited to a container but still do ok.
                              Mines also grown in recycling boxes my neighbours all donated theirs to me, usually I put lettuce, courgettes or leeks just depends what I have waiting in the sidelines.
                              Location....East Midlands.

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