Planting after harvesting?

[Kylie]

Evening all,

This is my first post here so apologies if this has already been asked and answered before!

It’s my first year as an allotment holder and luckily so far everything is growing well.

But...what do you sow after you’ve harvested your garlic and carrots?

I don’t like seeing bare ground but I’m not sure what to do after harvesting!?

Any help and advice is much appreciated.

TIA

[Chestnut]

Pop ‘RHS Veg planner’ into google, and in another window take a look at realseeds website month by month sowing suggestions. That should give you some ideas ;-)

If all goes well, I hope to be sowing some late carrots, beetroot, spring cabbage and stirfry veg this weekend, possibly some late peas too.

Oh, and welcome to the grapevine!

[burnie]

I actually like working on my soil after a crop, I rarely plant another crop, but add either compost or manure ready for next years crop, I like to rest the ground myself, not a choice all would make, but living in Scotland I think late crops have less chance of success.

[Jungle Jane]

Hello & welcome to the forum I had some leeks sitting by & I planted them where my garlic was & fed with some seaweed to get them going & sowed some lettuce seed where my onions were & swede seeds where my broad beans were. Ask any questions we’re all friendly in here,lots of stuffs repeated twice or more,my answers probably different this year,last year I planted tomatoes out where my onions & garlic were.

[Bren In Pots]

First I'll say hello and welcome to the vine You could always sow winter lettuce such as 'All year round' or Arctic king.

[Snoop Puss]

Hello and welcome.

I'm like Burnie, I tend to leave the soil fallow for a few months. But recently I've come around to the idea of green manures, which are essentially plants you grow in order to dig in to add humous to the soil. There's plenty of info on here (though the search facility is less than perfect in coming up with results) as well as elsewhere on the Web.

If you tell us which part of the country you're in, it may help in making any advice a bit more suited to your growing situation.

Best of luck and looking forward to seeing you around the Vine.

[Kylie]

Thanks all for such a warm welcome and for your responses

I’m in South Lincolnshire so we tend to have pretty good weather (usually)! Although as you can imagine the last 2 months I’ve definitely got my steps up with the watering can!

I’m going to be rotating my beds for next years growing season but didn’t know if there were certain crops I definitely shouldn't Sow after harvesting certain crops? Or am I over complicating crop rotation?

[annie8]

Finding this a useful thread. I am at the end of my broad beans and peas and was thinking whether to plant in that bed for get green manure - used that on several last year. I’m in scotland too so agree we need to think about what will work here. Was thinking maybe salad leaves and the lambs lettuce which was meant to be ok over winter - although it struggled last winter with the awful weather.

[Two_Sheds]

If you have a GH, you can have plants waiting to go in any gaps: I still have a tray of leeks to go in

I get my GMs sown in August, sowing them alongside crops that I know to be ending, eg BBs