Now broad beans and peas have gone is there anything useful I can do
with the empty spaces?
--
Mike Reid
"Art is the lie that reveals the truth" P.Picasso
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The Reid wrote:
Now broad beans and peas have gone is there anything useful I can do
with the empty spaces?

I got some radish and lettuce in as quickly as possible.

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:12:09 +0100, The Reid
wrote:

Now broad beans and peas have gone is there anything useful I can do
with the empty spaces?

If you have, or can acquire some leek seedlings, plant them in the
space you have created. That is what I have just done!


Pam in Bristol

bigboard wrote in message ...
The Reid wrote:
Now broad beans and peas have gone is there anything useful I can do
with the empty spaces?

I got some radish and lettuce in as quickly as possible.

Chinese cabbage are *best* sown in July. They make great sauerkraut,
too; or Korean-style kim-u-chi with garlic and chillies. This is also
the time to sow spinach beet for winter greens (and the white midribs
which I like as a separate vegetable, though my children tell me it's
a perversion).

Mike.

"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
om...
bigboard wrote in message
...
The Reid wrote:
Now broad beans and peas have gone is there anything useful I can do
with the empty spaces?

My broad beans ( still cropping ) have new flowering shoots coming up from
the base. In effect I appear to be getting a second crop. Is this normal?

Andy

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from The Reid contains these words:

Now broad beans and peas have gone is there anything useful I can do
with the empty spaces?
--
Mike Reid

Obvious thing to me is some nice spring cabbage or some quick salad
stuff like lettuce and radishes.

--
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Please don`t use as it`s a spam haven.

My choices we

- Lettuce Webbs Wonderful
- Radish Mino Early
- Turnip Golden Ball
- French Bean Purple Queen (Yes, I know I shouldn't follow a bean with a
bean)
- Radish Osterguss Rose allowed to bolt and has flowered - want to see
if I get decent pods on it. (all the official podding radishes seem to
be sold out this year)
- Courgette Gold Rush planted late because the May sowing failed.

Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 11:13 +0100 (BST), (Steve
Harris) wrote:

I know I shouldn't follow a bean with a
bean

I THINK I've heard that rotation doesn't matter so much with beans as
they fix their own nitrogen.
But if you cut off the broad bean stems and leave roots in the ground
you will have the benefit of the nitrogen nodules on the roots for
whatever you plant next.


Pam in Bristol

In article , Pam Moore
writes
I THINK I've heard that rotation doesn't matter so much with beans as
they fix their own nitrogen.
But if you cut off the broad bean stems and leave roots in the ground
you will have the benefit of the nitrogen nodules on the roots for
whatever you plant next.

That's right, peas, beans and all other legumes leave nitrogen in the
ground which can be used by a following crop. That doesn't affect the
need for crop rotation though. Repeated growing of the same plant family
will result in a build up of diseases regardless of how much nitrogen is
in the soil.
--
Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.

In article , Pam Moore
writes
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 11:13 +0100 (BST), (Steve
Harris) wrote:

I know I shouldn't follow a bean with a
bean

I THINK I've heard that rotation doesn't matter so much with beans as
they fix their own nitrogen.
But if you cut off the broad bean stems and leave roots in the ground
you will have the benefit of the nitrogen nodules on the roots for
whatever you plant next.

Isn't the purpose of rotation two-fold?
1) to avoid build up of disease
2) to ensure continuing fertility of the soil

So having two sets of beans should be no problem - they fix nitrogen, as
Pam says, so aren't depleting the soil as much as, say, cabbages, and
they aren't troubled by pests which build up the soil from one crop to
the next.
--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm

In article , Pam Moore
writes
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 11:13 +0100 (BST), (Steve
Harris) wrote:

I know I shouldn't follow a bean with a
bean

I THINK I've heard that rotation doesn't matter so much with beans as
they fix their own nitrogen.
But if you cut off the broad bean stems and leave roots in the ground
you will have the benefit of the nitrogen nodules on the roots for
whatever you plant next.

Isn't the purpose of rotation two-fold?
1) to avoid build up of disease
2) to ensure continuing fertility of the soil

So having two sets of beans should be no problem - they fix nitrogen, as
Pam says, so aren't depleting the soil as much as, say, cabbages, and
they aren't troubled by pests which build up the soil from one crop to
the next.
--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm

andrewpreece wrote:

My broad beans ( still cropping ) have new flowering shoots coming up from
the base. In effect I appear to be getting a second crop. Is this normal?

I thought it was just me. I was getting ready to retire on the proceeds of
selling the "Double Cropping" broad bean seed.

Edwin
Bath.