Planting salads where carrots have previously been

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First timer with veg here. I have all of twelve carrot plants that we are slowly pulling up, and I think we will have pulled them all by next week. DS would now like to grow rocket and gem lettuce in the patch of raised bed where the carrots were (which shares space with the blackberries). We have bought seeds in wilko.

Is this patch suitable? I wondered whether it would be lacking in nutrients after growing the carrots and whether I need to improve it first. Or whether it needs a rest?!

Can you tell I'm a first timer?!

Shouldn't be a problem. If the lettuce start looking sickly you can always apply a general purpose liquid fertiliser, or some fertiliser granules. In the longer term, you may find things struggle to compete against the blackberries.

Thank you. The blackberries are two years old so haven't properly established themselves. The raspberries, on the other hand, are spreading, so I will expect similar over time with the blackberries.

Growth habit is different. Raspberries throw up suckers from roots, so new canes appear a foot or two from the original. Blackberries throw out long arching stems which root at the tips wherever the tips touch the ground. Blackberries are more vigorous than raspberries.