what to follow potatoes with in bags?

[salilah]

I've my crop of potatoes in bags - they are coming up well!
Although some of them will still have potatoes in for a while, I was wondering what others followed potatoes with in bags (if anything)
I know I can turn out the compost onto the raised beds, however I just hoped it might be possible to put something else into the bags before I do this?
Any suggestions? Timing is from round about now through to late autumn...
Thanks lots
Salilah

[Snadger]

Leeks
spring cabbage
broad beans
japanese onions
salad crops
PSB
kale

To name but a few!

[Florence Fennel]

I sow carrots into them.

[miker2d2]

might try some spring cabbage in mine then, how many could I do in a potatoe planter bag, 1 or 2 I guess.

can the compost be re-juvenated with chicken manure pellets and re-used for pots next year?

cheers

[Storming Norman]

Its got to be carrots. Right soil & depth for good growth, up high enough to avoid the fly so no need to cover. It always works for me -its a bit hit and miss in the ground. And you can keep them in the pots for winter and just pull as you need - pull them into the lee of a building to keep the frost off for loose soil. I get quite a lot of carrots from my pots, but then I usually eat them raw so they go a bit further that way. I was still pulling them in Feb then put dwarf peas in straight afterwards.

[Potstubsdustbins]

In my dustbins I follow with PSB Summer Purple for an early crop and a standard variety for later on.

As to spring cabbage I start with about 50 plants (number of seeds in a pkt) in less than 3 sq metres so they are planted very close together. I don't wait for them to mature as soon as a plant is large enough to supply cabbage for a meal it is harvested as spring greens. If I can I like to pick every other one and then start again picking every other one, with those remaining growing on. This way we get about 3 months worth of cabbage.

Colin.

[chris]

I do carrots + beetroot. Then after that some quick maturing lettuce

[gojiberry]

You could always try Xmas potatoes if you can get some seed potatoes. Just add some blood fish and bone, fluff the compost up and plant tubers.

Ian

[The Large One]

iv'e been missing the trick...Doh !!
i normally pack my bags away till next year, never occured to me to use them for other things...PSB and a couple with leeks sounds like a damn good idea

[BUFFS]

i do some carrots as brassicas need a very firm soil,so i try the unusual varieties of carrots,different types in each tub,then see what type to grow again,multicoloured veg on your plate..enjoy..

[Chef_uk]

Great idea second set of carrots shall now follow the spuds.

[VirginVegGrower]

Fabulous idea. More carrots! Tomorrow of course;-)

[piskieinboots]

oooh so glad I stopped by on this thread - carrots it is

[salilah]

Thanks all! ideas much appreciated
(especially broad beans - I've a small bed of these but they haven't liked the weather - the bottom pods set fine, but the ones higher than about 12" have all fallen off :-( )
cheers
S

[Jamesy_uk]

Don't take this as gospel but I have been told before that pods that aren't setting usually denotes a lack of something, be it water/ food or pollination as the main 3 sources.