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I am sure I have asked this before, but I never seem to know what goes in after purple sprouting.  It is there so long. 

I think I must remember to leave a space next to it next year so the courgettes etc can then just ramble into the space they leave.  When I plant it out I never seem to remember.

I struggle with the brassicas which are in for about a year. Mr PKL cannot understand why there are rows of one type of plant stuck in amongst another. It's becaue they have been there so long the rotation has moved on. Good idea with the courgettes Digeroo

Mine usually get late beans put in over them, with a good feed of compost and a bit of fertilizer granules.

Yep..bean and pea are good option or roots..none of those need huge quantity of nitrogen which is usually spent up from soil by brassicas.
The soil do need a little bit attention to get it back into its best again.

I thought I had it sussed with rotation. I have been manuring the brassica plot, fish blood and bone everywhere else with most of the compost bin going to the beans. However my latest Dobies catalogue came with a planting guide that seemed to imply that the onions and beans plot should be manured with the brassicas following on with just fertiliser. I must say that my cabbages, even in a previously manured in the autumn plot were disappointing, but last year wasn't very good anyway so it could just have been the reason. Help!!! 

I admit that my brassicas usually follow my late spuds or the early garlic, onions! So not always on soil that is terribly freshly rich, although I always add some compost and a bit of organic fertilizer. And I don't grow many but usually get pretty good sprouts and PSB and caulis that way.... SO as it works, I keep going!

I also put PSB where the early potatoes have been,  the spuds were covered with straw which has now completely rotted away.  I put down a lot of chicken pellets so they brassicas did ok.  I left the stalks of the sweetcorn upwind to help them over the winter.   But apart from more brassicas which is a no no, I always find it difficult.  But I should have some new compost by then. 

Thanks for the suggestions.