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They usually try to sow radishes early, as soon as the land allows, early-ripening varieties are selected in the spring, and they are harvested by the beginning of summer. So it turns out that the site after it is vacated early, a rare owner will leave it fallow – for this you need to have a lot of space. Most often, other vegetables are planted in this place. You can, of course, sow radishes again, but in the summer it will not give such a rich harvest. So what can be planted in the garden after the radish?
Preparing beds for re-sowing
This early vitamin vegetable is planted the very first on the site, they try to prepare the soil for it in advance, in the fall. The site is chosen flat, open, so that the sun warms it as much as possible. The soil is fertilized with humus, compost, mineral fertilizers, ash or even lime is added, if it needs to be deoxidized, sand or peat is added. Such loose nutrient soil remains on the site after radishes, because in the short period that it grows and ripens, and this is from 20 to 40 days, it simply does not have time to deplete the earth.
Having harvested the crop, the prudent owner immediately prepares the site for other vegetables, because the plan must be thought out in advance in accordance with the laws of crop rotation and plant compatibility. An experienced gardener knows in the fall what he will sow or plant in this place in late May or early June (the ripening time of the selected radish variety is known).
Of course, radishes could be planted between other vegetables, such as cucumbers or tomatoes. In this case, harvesting it will simply give more room for growing vegetables, but it is rare that tomatoes are planted so early. Most often, seedlings of tomatoes, peppers, eggplants can just be planted after harvesting our earliest vegetable.
After harvesting the root crops, the site must be cleared of all plant residues, weed roots must be removed and destroyed, and dug up well.
If the soil initially does not differ in nutritional value and fertility, then fertilizers can be applied, for example, urea, compost. If the soil is fertile enough, then it is not worth fertilizing it again before sowing or planting something else, because in the month or one and a half that the radish grew here, it did not even have time to deplete its horizon, and it is better to plant plants with another root system.
Having cleared and dug up the site, the owner usually levels it, waters it, and leaves it to rest for some, even a very short time.
What can be planted after radishes
Each crop depletes the soil in its own way – it selects certain nutrients from the level at which its roots are located. In addition, pests and pathogens of certain diseases settle in the upper layers of the soil, which target this particular crop, they try to gain a foothold for a long time, breed offspring, arrange it for the winter in the hope of feeding them with the greenery they like. That is why it is impossible to plant the same crop in the same place for several years in a row. The beauty of annual vegetables is, among other things, that you can easily change the place of their cultivation. Moreover, close relatives cannot be planted next to or in one place in turn. Therefore, after harvesting the radish, Cruciferous (Cabbage), that is, radish or cabbage, are not planted on its garden bed. Actually, this implies crop rotation.
After radishes, tomatoes and eggplants are often planted. While the barely warmed earth grows root crops, gardeners grow seedlings of these vegetables, and the time comes to plant them in the garden just in time for their release. Tomatoes and eggplants do not have common enemies with Cruciferous, moreover, the smell of tomatoes repels the cruciferous fly, as well as some types of aphids, so that they can be safely planted on the liberated prepared bed.
You can sow gourds, peas or beans for the same reasons – the absence of common enemies, a different level of growth of the root system. Only the area for watermelons, melons, pumpkins requires a large area, and radishes, as a rule, are given a small area.
Most often, after radishes, onions are sown on feathers or greens – dill, parsley, some types of lettuce. Their growing season allows this to be done, and no pests or diseases of the previous crop will harm them.
Many gardeners plant seedlings of cucumbers on the vacant plots, and if the climate allows (in the south), you can even sow them side by side (the so-called mixed sowing), cover with a film, and then after harvesting the radish, there is just enough space for the cucumbers.
Special literature does not recommend planting carrots, but some gardeners practice mixed sowing, they say that both cultures grow and develop normally. In general, it is risky to plant root crops after radishes, but you can plant, or rather, sow late beet varieties (Cylinder, Crimson Ball, Cold-resistant-19) and carrots (Moscow Winter, Losinoostrovskaya-13) on vacant plots , “Vitamin-6”). Experience has shown that they give a good harvest, many even note an improved taste, and then they are perfectly stored.
The most important thing is not to occupy the vacated areas with cabbage, swede, radish.
Video “Sowing radishes after cabbage”
The author of this video demonstrates his experience of growing radishes in a greenhouse after harvesting cabbage.
