Is there life after potatoes?

[Raybon]

Would love to know what folk are planting in their potato beds once the 'treasure' has been dug up...........

[WPG]

I've got a queue of plants waiting for the potato bed - a couple of uchiki kuri squash, a Crown prince squash, leeks, romanesco, autumn calabrese and winter PSB. They're all looking a bit sad and pot-bound, but the potatoes aren't in any great hurry. I may need to pot everything into bigger pots while they're waiting.

[Greenleaves]

Leeks seems to be the way

[veggiechicken]

I've just bunged a load of squash and courgettes in a potato bed. The leeks are waiting for the next one to become vacant!

[Potstubsdustbins]

So far as I have harvested my new potato containers after sweetening the used compost I have replanted with courgettes and cauliflower. As I proceed I have ready more cauliflower and finally in the main crop dustbins will go curly kale.

Fortunately I have a large stash of pots and compost which allows me to grow stuff on until such times as their final place becomes free.

[WendyC]

Leeks and wallflowers are in the queue.

[Alison]

I'll put a winter squash in where my earlies were but it'll be ages before the main crop come out so it'll just be green manures mainly there although some winter salads will go in too

[Bex]

Second earlies are being replaced by Savoy cabbage and Rudolph broccoli

[Raybon]

Thanks - great ideas. This will be the first year I've not just let it go empty.....

[arpoet]

When I grow tatties in the ground I follow on with winter cabbages. This year all my tatties are in containers and the compost will be recycled for future use.

[Nicos]

Usually leeks here but don't forget kale and other brassicas - just make sure you compress the soil well before planting.

[Penellype]

So far as I have harvested my new potato containers after sweetening the used compost I have replanted with courgettes and cauliflower. As I proceed I have ready more cauliflower and finally in the main crop dustbins will go curly kale.

Fortunately I have a large stash of pots and compost which allows me to grow stuff on until such times as their final place becomes free.

Not wanting to hijack this thread, but how do you geton with cauliflower in containers? I'm growing some for the first time this year, and I will have space in a dustbin after my potatoes.

I don't normally follow my tatties with anything as I grow them in bags, which I am usually heartily glad to get off the patio by the time the potatoes are ready. But leeks, broccoli and spring cabbage would be about right timing wise.