Empty bed
What to plant after spinach
The short answer
After spinach in June the bed can take French or runner beans, beetroot, carrots, kale, pointed cabbage, broccoli or sweetcorn, as well as quick salads. Vercro marks nothing to wait.
Spring spinach often runs to seed as the days lengthen, so the bed is free by early summer with most of the season ahead.
Spinach cleared in June
What Vercro's catalogue has in its sowing window when the bed clears in mid June, checked against spinach with the same code as the Vercro app. No frost date is applied here; “ready about” counts the catalogue's growing time from mid June.
| Window | J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spinach in the bedMarch to June | January: no | February: no | March: yes | April: yes | May: yes | June: yes | July: no | August: no | September: no | October: no | November: no | December: no |
| Then radishJune to July | January: no | February: no | March: no | April: no | May: no | June: yes | July: yes | August: no | September: no | October: no | November: no | December: no |
| Or purple sprouting broccoliJune to April | January: yes | February: yes | March: yes | April: yes | May: no | June: yes | July: yes | August: yes | September: yes | October: yes | November: yes | December: yes |
Quick crops (2)
Ready in about eight weeks or less.
- RadishSow outside. Ready about July.
- RocketSow outside. Ready about July.
Need longer (25)
Worth it only if your first frost is late enough. The tool below checks that for your area.
- MizunaSow outside. Ready about July to August.
- Oriental MustardSow outside. Ready about July to August.
- SpinachSow outside. Ready about July to August.
- LettuceSow outside. Ready about July to August.
- Pak choiSow outside. Ready about July to August.
- ChardSow outside. Ready about August.
- CucumberSow outside. Growing time counts from planting out, so we don’t date it.
- French BeanSow outside. Ready about August.
- CourgetteSow outside. Growing time counts from planting out, so we don’t date it.
- KohlrabiSow outside. Ready about August.
- TurnipSow outside. Ready about August.
- BeetrootSow outside. Ready about August to September.
- Chinese CabbageSow outside. Ready about August to September.
- Dwarf French BeanSow outside. Ready about August to September.
- KaleSow outside. Ready about August to September.
- Lamb's LettuceSow outside. Ready about August to September.
- PeaSow outside. Ready about August to September.
- Pointed CabbageSow outside. Ready about August to September.
- Runner BeanSow outside. Ready about August to September.
- Spring OnionSow outside. Ready about August.
- CarrotSow outside. Ready about August to September.
- SweetcornSow outside. Ready about August to September.
- BroccoliSow outside. Ready about September.
- PumpkinSow outside. Ready about September to October.
- SwedeSow outside. Ready about November to December.
Stand through winter (1)
Not racing this year's frost: they stand over winter and crop next year.
- Purple Sprouting BroccoliSow outside. Ready about January to April.
Green manures (1)
To cover and feed the soil rather than to eat.
- Green ManureSow outside. Ready about July to August.
Nothing in its window this month is flagged to wait because of spinach.
Why the family matters
Spinach is in the beet and chard family (Amaranthaceae), with beetroot and chard. Vercro raises no rotation warning for this family, because it holds no documented soil problem that builds up from repeating it.
We found no reputable source giving a specific rotation rule for this family. What the family does share is a pest: the RHS notes chard and beetroot share beet leaf miner. That is a reason to watch, not a soil problem.
Worth knowing about spinach beds
Beetroot is a relative
Following spinach with beetroot or chard is the same family. Vercro doesn’t warn, but you may prefer variety.A long season ahead
A June bed can take a main summer crop, not only a quick one.Autumn spinach later
The catalogue has autumn spinach sown in August and September. It can go here or elsewhere.What we don’t know
Whether rotation matters much for this family is not something the RHS addresses. We say so rather than invent a rule.
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
When a spinach planting ends in Vercro, the Garden plan lists what could go into the space, checked against your location's frost date.
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 spinach; 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.
- Chard: grow your own, Royal Horticultural Society. 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.