Quick maturing veggies

[veggiechicken]

Its raining and I'm idly thinking aloud

Is it possible to grow 4 different veggies that take 3 months or less each to maturity on the same ground/bed/pot in a year. 4 Crop rotation in a year?

For example, radish followed by lettuce, then spring onions, then peas.
Not necessarily in that order!
What other quick veg are there? Turnips, baby beet, carrots (if you're lucky!), courgettes, DFBs lots of salad leaves?

The winter quarters would be difficult. Maybe need to grow veg on in pots first then plant into the bed for their 3 month stay.

I know I'm rabbiting

Any thoughts? (about the idea, not whether I'm rabbiting )

[Penellype]

In theory this should be possible providing you allowed the first crop to be overwintered. If you started with oriental greens such as mizuna and were prepared to throw it out in April and plant up with March sown spinach, the spinach should be done by the end of May ready for a summer crop of courgettes or tomatoes. Last year I planted chinese celery in modules in August and planted it out in October. Given cloche protection it provided me with leaves throughout the winter.

You could probably substitute radishes, turnips or lettuce for the spinach if you prefer.

[lolie]

Possible as long as the weather co-operates.

Kale is pretty quick growing.

If you're using 3 months as the definition of "quick", then you could even interplant smaller crops which mature more rapidly with the larger ones which take longer to mature and get more than 4 different vegies out of the same space (this is a technique used a lot in square foot gardening).

[Small pumpkin]

VC you make my head hurt .

How about cress, leaf radish............... I can't even think of another speedy thing, that I grow in lengths of gutter . I grow loads of it for my salad bags

[planetologist]

Masanobu Fukuoka sowed his barley before the rice harvest and vice versa. Two weeks before I think. I keep meaning to try that with vegetables, but haven't been organised enough. A variation on what lolie is suggesting.

[Thelma Sanders]

Cima di Rapa aka broccoli rabe is ready in 60days
Vegetable Seeds: Broccoli or Calabrese, & Rapini

Can be sown in Spring or Summer