Exercise 2 solution Example answer (yours will differ): After lifting the potatoes in July, remove any small tubers and weeds, fork over the soil lightly and fork in a layer of compost or a little general fertiliser, since the potatoes have used up some nutrients (Chapter 3). Then sow a quick follow-on crop for late summer and autumn: a cut-and-come-again salad mix and radishes, which will be ready in 4 to 8 weeks. Water the bed until the seedlings are up. Do not put potatoes back in the same bed next year (rotation and blight risk). In late summer or autumn, clear the salad and either mulch the bare soil or sow a green manure.