Empty Veg Bed Quandry.....

[northepaul]

Hiya all
I have just cleared my leeks and potatoes from two beds at the allotment, and am aiming to swap them over - ie the allium bed will be the potato bed next year and the potato bed is going to be planted with onions and garlic very shortly. However I have a time gap for the potato bed - is there anything you can suggest I pop in there please?
Needs to be done by potato planting time...??
I have (or will have)in my other beds:
1) former (waste of time) pumpkin bed, now has perpetual spinage red russian kale and some rainbow chard
2) Runner bean bed still has them in with some PSB growing underneath
3) Rootbed has beetroot, winter radish, experiental carrots () & winter turnips
4) Overwintering broadies and peas

Any advice or suggestions appreciated

[Two_Sheds]

I'm doing the same as you, but I sowed a green manure back in August - it's now coming up

Not much help to you now, sorry

[zazen999]

Still time to sow phacelia or crimson clover....

[Snadger]

Spring cabbage plants can probably be sourced from Garden centre and used as spring greens if they interfere with tattie planting time.

[VirginVegGrower]

I would add green manure as suggested above. Or spring cabbage plug plants - too late to sow seed.

[Florence Fennel]

Cabbage and cauliflower going in mine Thea, but I bought plug plants about a month ago from Marshalls, not sure that these will still be available.

[northepaul]

Thanks I was thinking about green manures, so will investigate them further

[Two_Sheds]

Broad beans of course, which you can cut down, chop up before your spuds go in (so treat them as a green manure)

[Aberdeenplotter]

Bit puzzled at you lifting the leeks as they are an overwintering crop and would have continued to grow until needed. Not much that hasn't already been mentioned that you can plant now that will have matured before potato planting time in the spring

[northepaul]

My leeks had started to rot, (lots of terrential rain lately) so I figured it was best to dig them up and use them before there was nothing edible left.
I had fully intended to leave them.