Empty bed
What to plant after peas
The short answer
After peas in July: autumn kale, turnips, kohlrabi, pak choi, pointed cabbage and spring cabbage follow well; beetroot, carrots, lettuce and chard have time if your frost is late enough; radish and rocket are quick.
Not more peas or beans.
Peas finish in summer and leave roots that have fixed some nitrogen. What follows is a question of time left and of family.
Peas finished in July
What Vercro's catalogue has in its sowing window when the bed clears in mid July, checked against peas with the same code as the Vercro app. No frost date is applied here; “ready about” counts the catalogue's growing time from mid July.
| Window | J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peas in the bedMarch to July | January: no | February: no | March: yes | April: yes | May: yes | June: yes | July: yes | August: no | September: no | October: no | November: no | December: no |
| Then radishJuly to August | January: no | February: no | March: no | April: no | May: no | June: no | July: yes | August: yes | September: no | October: no | November: no | December: no |
| Or spring cabbageJuly to March | January: yes | February: yes | March: yes | April: no | May: no | June: no | July: yes | August: yes | September: yes | October: yes | November: yes | December: yes |
Quick crops (2)
Ready in about eight weeks or less.
- RadishFollows wellSow outside. Ready about August.
- RocketFollows wellSow outside. Ready about August.
Need longer (17)
Worth it only if your first frost is late enough. The tool below checks that for your area.
- MizunaFollows wellSow outside. Ready about August to September.
- Oriental MustardFollows wellSow outside. Ready about August to September.
- SpinachSow outside. Ready about August to September.
- LettuceSow outside. Ready about August to September.
- Pak choiFollows wellSow outside. Ready about August to September.
- ChardSow outside. Ready about September.
- Kohlrabi (Autumn)Follows wellSow outside. Ready about September.
- KohlrabiFollows wellSow outside. Ready about September.
- TurnipFollows wellSow outside. Ready about September.
- BeetrootSow outside. Ready about September to October.
- Chinese CabbageFollows wellSow outside. Ready about September to October.
- Lamb's LettuceSow outside. Ready about September to October.
- Pointed CabbageFollows wellSow outside. Ready about September to October.
- Spring OnionSow outside. Ready about September.
- Turnip (Autumn)Follows wellSow outside. Ready about September to October.
- CarrotSow outside. Ready about September to October.
- Kale (Autumn)Follows wellRaise indoors, then plant. Ready about November to December.
Stand through winter (1)
Not racing this year's frost: they stand over winter and crop next year.
- Spring cabbageFollows wellSow. Ready about February to March.
Green manures (1)
To cover and feed the soil rather than to eat.
- Green ManureSow outside. Ready about August to September.
Best to wait (1)
In their sowing window, but the same family as peas. Put them in a different bed.
French Bean
Why the family matters
Peas are in the pea and bean family. Pea and bean root rots build up where they are grown repeatedly, so French beans and more peas are marked to wait.
The RHS advises leaving pea roots in the ground to boost soil nitrogen. After a crop grown for its pods the gain is modest (Garden Organic), but it is why Vercro marks hungry crops, the cabbage family here, as following peas well.
Worth knowing about peas beds
Cut, don’t pull
Leave the roots in the soil (RHS).Late sowings of peas elsewhere
Peas stop in June in both the catalogue and the RHS guidance; there is no second pea sowing to put here.Supports can stay for climbing beans?
Only in a different bed: beans are the same family as peas.Brassicas: check the bed’s past
Following well assumes the bed hasn't had brassicas recently. See brassica rotation.
Check it for your bed and your frost date
Pick when it came out and add your usual first frost (or your postcode). The tool opens with your answer.
How Vercro handles this in a real garden
In Vercro the cleared pea bed shows what could go in next, checked against your frost date, and its history marks cabbage-family crops as following well and peas and beans to go elsewhere.
What this page can't tell you
The honest limits
Sowing months are a national calendar, not your garden's. We can't see your soil, how much room is left, or what else is still growing in the bed. The rotation check looks only at peas; your bed's earlier history matters too.
Keep going
Where this comes from
Crop windows, growing times and plant families come from Vercro's own curated crop catalogue, the same data the Vercro app uses. Where a published source says something different, we show both rather than choosing the convenient one. Reviewed 19 September 2026.
- Peas: grow your own, Royal Horticultural Society. Read 19 September 2026.
- Field beans (green manure), Garden Organic. Read 19 September 2026.
- Crop rotation, Royal Horticultural Society. Read 19 September 2026.
Let each empty bed tell you what could go in
In the Vercro Garden plan, a bed that has come free shows what could go there next, using your location's frost date and what that bed has grown before.