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What can I plant after potato?
Tell us what came out of the bed, when, and roughly when your first autumn frost comes. You get what can still go in and finish in time, what should wait because of what grew there, and what we can't judge.
After potato, sowing on 27 October
Potato is in the potato and tomato family (Solanaceae). Growing that family here again soon matters because potato cyst nematode (eelworm) eggs can survive in soil for up to ten years, and blight carries over in potatoes left in the ground.
Add your usual first frost above (or look it up by postcode) to see which will finish in time. Without it we can only say what is in its sowing window.
In its sowing window (10)
Add your first frost date to see which of these will finish in time.
- CressSow outside. Usually 7 to 21 days to be ready.
- Oriental MustardSow outside. Usually 30 to 60 days to be ready.
- RocketSow outside. Usually 30 to 40 days to be ready.
- Winter PurslaneSow outside. Usually 40 to 60 days to be ready.
- Lamb's LettuceSow outside. Usually 60 to 90 days to be ready.
- Winter SpinachSow outside. Usually 60 to 90 days to be ready.
- TulipSow. Usually 120 to 180 days to be ready.
- Broad Bean (Autumn)Sow outside. Usually 180 to 240 days to be ready.
- Overwintering PeasSow indoors. Usually 180 to 210 days to be ready.
- GarlicSow outside. Usually 240 to 270 days to be ready.
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What this knows, and what it doesn't
- Two checks, both from the Vercro app. Timing is the Garden plan's own “What could go here” test. Rotation is the app's bed-history check, by botanical family.
- Rotation looks at the last crop only. In your own garden Vercro reads the bed's whole history. Here it only knows what you told it.
- “Follows well” has one meaning. Hungry crops after peas or beans, which leave some nitrogen in the soil. It is modest, not a feed.
- Sowing months are national. Your frost date is the only local input. Shorter autumn days slow growth, which the growing times don't model.
- It can't see the bed. Room, soil, and what is still growing alongside are not known here. Greenhouse and polytunnel use a general speed-up figure.
Data: Vercro's own curated crop catalogue, snapshot taken 15 September 2026. Decisions use the same code as the Garden plan in the Vercro web app. Nothing you enter here is stored, and there is no sign-up.
Guides for the crop that just came out
In your own garden, Vercro does this bed by bed
When a bed clears in the Garden plan, Vercro offers what could go there next, using your location's frost date and what that bed has grown before.