what to follow onions??

[skip]

Hi - I've just lifted my onions & they are drying on the ground.
Last winter I had sprouts, & winter brocolli in that patch ... any ideas for what I can put in there now?

Thinking of ordering some oriental veg seeds, but never tried that before.

Anything else that could go in there??? Thanks for your help

[oldherbaceous]

Evening Skip, don't know if your ground is spare, but i like to try and sow some green manure in any spare ground i have. It really does build up the fertility of the soil.
At this time of the year you can sow almost any of the green manures.

Kind regards Old Herbaceous.

Theres no fool like an old fool.

[sprout]

I've put in roots - scorzonera and salsify cos carrots just aren't growing for me this year

[skip]

thanks for your advice -

Old Herbaceous, i have some clover & mustard seed left from last year, so could use that ... but thought I'd grow some more veg if i could.

Sprout, I've never eaten or grown scorzonera and salsify - is it tricky & does it taste good?

My carrots are poor too ...

[sprout]

Yep skip, they taste very good, and someone on this forum says the flower buds of scorzonera taste good (they are a perennial and will continue growing in a 2nd year to fatten up). They are easy to grow or I wouldn't be growing them!
If you'd like to try a few, send me a pm and I'll pop some in the post

[Wellie]

Hi Skip,

I'd steer clear of growing oriental veg.... I only say that because I'm thinking that you mean the cut-and-come-again salad leaf stuff such as Pak Choi, Komatsuma etc. etc.
If I'm right in my thinking, it's only because it's the same family as your winter brassica stuff that you grew before the onions, and I'd say it's too soon to grow brassica stuff again on that ground....

How about Spinach Beet, Herbs, Autumn-Sown Broad Beans, Swiss Chard, Little Gem or cut and come again ORDINARY lettuce type leaves, Rocket, Parsley, Coriander Leaf, stumpy short growing Carrots for young roots ?

Only winging it here, but hope it's of help.
Wellie

[Carole B.]

You could put a fast green manure in and then turn it in in time to sow broad beans at the end of October.

[sprout]

Keeping up with the modules sown for succession - the old onion bed is the only spare space, so in go the beetroot, chicory and lettuce. Back to the drawing board

[Johnboy]

Hi Skip,
To follow on from Carole's posting about Green Manuring. Scarlet Clover is the ideal Green Manure because it is ready to turn in 8-10 weeks after sowing which would conveniently to the time when Autumn Broad Beans are sown. However you probably will only require part of the plot for BB's and several other things are possible but as Wellie quite rightly says it really depends what you grew on that plot before the Onions and what you had planned for next year if you had thought that far ahead. If you choose Scarlet Clover there is time left in the growing season to actually turn one sowing of SC in and to sow another.
I have done just this and the second sowing you do not turn in but when matured you cover with heavy duty black Polythene and let the worms do their bit over the winter and then you will have a clear field to begin next Spring. I have plenty of room to do this as I have no problems space wise.