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  • #1

    Timescale for re planting

    Just wondering how soon you can plant another crop after you have lifted one? Does it depend on what you have had in?
    Advice needed here!
    I had a full bed of PSB over winter. After I pulled up the plants ,about 5 weeks ago, the bed was very hard and dry. We dug it over and I put some BFBmeal on it. I dug it over again and planted some carrots and also some parsnips which I had pre germinated (as per advice on Grapevine ).
    Neither the carrots or the snips are "doing well". The carrots have partially germinated, but not coming on.
    Should I have nourished the soil more before I sowed the seeds? Should the bed have rested? I have fed them with seaweed extract.
    Any advice greatly received!
    "Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves." Helen Keller
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  • #2
    Originally posted by Emmylou View Post
    Just wondering how soon you can plant another crop after you have lifted one?
    About 3 minutes.
    I don't clear a patch of ground until I need to get some more plants in. I hate bare soil.
    Even weeds stay in until I need the ground (they are all a form of green manure, and go on the compost heap ... bigger weeds means more compost).

    Yesterday I pulled out a row of bolting radish, and immediately sowed some chitted parsnips.

    Today I will pull out a row of poppies and plant some leeks
    All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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    • #3
      What 2_s said. I do it all the time.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Emmylou View Post
        the bed was very hard and dry...I dug it over again and planted some carrots ... have partially germinated, but not coming on.
        A couple of things.
        Root crops do not need any feeding (carrots and parsnips). No feed at all.

        Carrots struggle to germinate if the soil is hard & capped. I have to put a layer of MPC over my row of carrot seed, or else the soil is too hard for them to break through.
        All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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        • #5
          Forgive my acronym ignorance...MPC?

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          • #6
            MPC = multi purpose compost
            All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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            • #7
              Gotcha, thanks.

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              • #8
                Any thoughts on why the carrots might be looking weakly?? They don't seem to be moving.........really, I don't think I'm being impatient!
                Thay have germinated, but will try the MPC trick next time.

                I'm going now, straight to the lottie to talk to them, maybe sing a little song!!
                Oh, its getting to me again.
                "Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves." Helen Keller

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                • #9
                  What do you mean by looking weakly?

                  Carrots are roots, so it is more important that they grow down, rather than up.

                  I'd also pop another sowing in direct, with MPC [I use coffee grounds or some of my newly gifted sawdust], to keep the soil from capping. I sowed another few batches last night as my carrot seedlings sown a while back are growing very slowly.

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                  • #10
                    They just don't seem to be moving! After coming through, they seem to be at a standstill.
                    "Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves." Helen Keller

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                    • #11
                      Have they got any actual leaves?

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                      • #12
                        Yes, thanks, I'll do that today for peace of mind.

                        Its all a learning curve at the moment! Took the lottie last May, so lots of learning being done. When something doesn't grow as I expect, I instantly think I've gone about it the wrong way!
                        Thanks for all the help!
                        "Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves." Helen Keller

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by zazen999 View Post
                          Have they got any actual leaves?
                          No, just the typical first carrot shaped ones.
                          "Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves." Helen Keller

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                          • #14
                            Ok, they are hopefully growing roots.

                            Then the second leaves should come.

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                            • #15
                              Went back to lottie and sowed more carrots......I think one mistake may have been sowing TOO thinnly. Tried the MPC trick this time!
                              "Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves." Helen Keller

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