following broad beans

[hawthorns]

what have people planted in the space left over from broad beans

[amandaandherveg]

Ooh Hawthorns, I need to know that too, and if anything can be grown up the wigwams left after the mange tout and climbing beans.

[daylily]

I put leeks and over-wintering onions there.

[Hazel at the Hill]

For me (following John Seymour's 4 plot rotation) it's overwintering brassicas which have been busting out of their pots until now!

Kale's now in after the 1st lot of broadies, brussels sprouts will go in probably this weekend.

[roadkill]

i was told to cut off the broad bean stalk leaving the roots in the ground to rot as this is great for the soil

[Hazel at the Hill]

i was told to cut off the broad bean stalk leaving the roots in the ground to rot as this is great for the soil

Yep - it adds nitrogen to the soil which is jolly good for the following plants. I cut the broadies down to the ground and use a trowel to dig an 'ole for the brassicas.

[wellie]

Because the roots have nitrogen-fixing nodules, which is what makes them good for following on a nitrogen-greedy crop like brassicas?

[wellie]

Snap Hazel!

[Hazel at the Hill]

Because the roots have nitrogen-fixing nodules, which is what makes them good for following on a nitrogen-greedy crop like brassicas?

great minds post alike, huh?

[Hazel at the Hill]

Snap Hazel!

no, you first, I insist!

[wellie]

Sorry, I took my eye off the ball there for a minute and got completely enveloped in catching up with your blog angel.......

Yes, as Auntie Hazel says, a good crop to follow on from Bored Beans is a greedy nitrogen-hungry crop like Summer Cabbage, Sprouts, Calabrese, Cauliflower, next Spring's Purple Sprouting Broccoli, Perpetual Spinach, and the like.

And if you've not got seedlings of those ready and waiting in the wings, there's still lots of salad leaves that you can sow instead?

Within four to six weeks you could be picking Salad Rocket, mixed Salad Leaves?
And that'll save you a fortune on your supermarket shopping bill....

[Snadger]

Spring cabbage for me........and lot's of em!

[Winged one]

I am planning, when I come home from hols, on putting a few more lettuce seedlings there as the row of peas alongside should also be finished that I can take out then. (And I've put a second crop double row of broadies on the other side of those peas!!)

The brassicas are all up the back in a different bed, as I used the broadie space for brassicas last summer. Poor planning when I was starting out. (I am currently replenishing that bed as the first lot of calabrese are finished, and I hope that the second flush of the other early calabrese is over soon so I can put in my late PSB - no room for them yet!!).

[RobintheBobin]

I'm going with leeks as they are looking like they really need to be transplanted...unfortunatley my sprouts had to be moved and netted before the nasty cabbage white appeared.