new vegetable needed

[bikermike]

hello everyone!

I need a new vegetable. After looking at my rotation, I have a gap.
it cannot be
brassica (previously in the same bed and growing elsewhere)
allium (grew onions/leeks/parsnips in the next bed this year and I might have had a leaf miner)
spuds/courgettes/squash/beetroot/sweetcorn/peas' n'beans - all being grown elsewhere.

any ideas?

mike

[hamamelis]

Salads? Can never have too much salad on the plot, and a lot of them aren't brassicas.

Or experiment with something totally different, like melons, or oca, or skirret. I always like having an experimental patch.

[Scarlet]

Tomatillo, cape gooseberry?

[Penellype]

It depends what you like to eat but you could grow some spinach or lettuce and follow with tomatoes, or you could grow carrots. If it is a sunny bed you could try sweet potatoes or even a melon under a cloche.

[veggiechicken]

Roots - where are your roots??
carrots, swede, turnip, parsnip, etc

[burnie]

Sweet corn

[Bren In Pots]

Nasturtiums are always handy to have, the flowers for salads then the seeds are nice pickled.

[Jimny14]

Do you like gherkins? I'm giving some a go next year, should be interesting.

[Snoop Puss]

How big is the gap? Is it big enough for winter squash? Once tried, you'll want to grow them every year.

[Jungle Jane]

Cucino & diva cucumbers grow outside,they're mini varieties & can go in with any rotation anywhere. Different varieties of beans or successional sowings of peas & carrots for a later harvest?

[Jay-ell]

Before I start making suggestions which may, or may not, be a tad avant garde :-

What sort of stuff do you like?
How big is the gap?
Sunny or partial shade?
Do you want roots, fruit, leaves, stems?
Long term or quick cropping?
Single harvest or constant cropping/cut and come again?

Then I'll start recommending stuff like dandelions, chickweed , etc

[Snadger]

Before I start making suggestions which may, or may not, be a tad avant garde :-

What sort of stuff do you like?
How big is the gap?
Sunny or partial shade?
Do you want roots, fruit, leaves, stems?
Long term or quick cropping?
Single harvest or constant cropping/cut and come again?

Then I'll start recommending stuff like dandelions, chickweed , etc

............plus Tree cabbage,Garden Hucleberry and Yacon!

[veggiechicken]

spuds/courgettes/squash/beetroot/sweetcorn/peas' n'beans - all being grown elsewhere.

any ideas?

mike

Take some of these and fill the gap - then you'll have more room for the remainder.
You won't nave planted any of them yet so you have plenty of time to rethink it.

[Jay-ell]

............plus Tree cabbage,Garden Hucleberry and Yacon!

Don't be stupid - tree cabbage is a brassica. Mike said no brassicas.

Good King Henry isn't though. Nor is cardoon, callaloo or sorrel.

For roots there's rapunzel, skirret, salsify, scorzonera, turnip rooted chervil, hamburg parsley, earth chestnuts, root chicory.

For grains and pulses how about lupini, amaranth, quinoa, buckwheat, soy.

Fruiting things include exploding cucumbers, Morelle De Balbis and the above mentioned Garden Huckleberry (both part of the tomato family).

Failing that lettuce, leaf chicory, rocket, endives, corriander, spinach for a salad zone.

Or lupins, crimson clover, vetch, field peans/peas, buckwheat, for a green manure/fallow/renewal zone.

Or poached egg plants, marigolds, nasturtiums for an edible pollinators section

[Chestnut]

What about a strawberry bed?
Maybe mix in some edible flowers, culinary herbs (varieties will depend on what you eat, but stuff like coriander, parsley, basil can all be grown as annuals)

Or go for a complete change, and put something more long term like soft fruit bushes