What to sow in July to get the harvest

Salad vegetables

Plant dill, spinach, lettuce, watercress, coriander, mustard, and rucola all summer. They sprout quickly, and after a couple of weeks, the greens are already cut to the table. Leafy lettuce can be sown until mid-August, and cabbage lettuce until the second half of July. Provide watering, otherwise the leaves will taste bitter.

After July 15, you can sow pak-choy Chinese cabbage and Peking cabbage of early varieties. In August, the beds need to be covered, because in the warmth lettuce vegetables grow more petioles.

Roots

Midsummer is the best time to plant black radish for winter storage, turnip and late varieties. Before winter, the daikon will have time to ripen – both with a round root crop, and with a long one.

In July, you can plant other plants that can bring several harvests per year. For example, beetroot: it is permissible to sow it three times per season. In spring – for summer consumption, in June – for winter storage and in July – for eating young beets in autumn.

Cabbage

Early varieties of salad flavor and quality can be planted; it ripens in 45 days. Broccoli beds can be arranged until mid-July. When the plant begins to form inflorescences, first cut off the central head of cabbage, then from the side shoots. This cabbage will successfully withstand autumn frosts and will yield a harvest until mid-autumn.

Legumes and squash

Do not forget to sow the peas. The August harvest will be wonderful: the large juicy pods are much sweeter than the July peas. Until July 15, you can also plant early-ripening beans if you want to get not the beans themselves, but young pods.

Zucchini and squash also work well with summer sowing. True, you will have to remove excess flowers and ovaries, leaving a few of the largest ones.

Perennials

It’s time to sow sorrel, rhubarb, lovage, perennial onions: slug, batun, chives. From biennial crops, parsley and leeks are planted in July. They will have time to give 2-3 true leaves before frost and so will leave before winter. Will start to grow early in the spring. Parsley will give fragrant herbs, leeks will delight you by the second half of May with tender round onions for salads and soups.

Cucumbers and tomatoes

These vegetables can also be successfully grown. Choose early ripening cucumber varieties and hybrids that do not need pollination. It is convenient to plant them in cut-off five-liter bottles: with the arrival of cold weather, they can be brought into the room for ripening.

Tomatoes can be propagated vegetatively: take several large stepchildren with buds, plant them in a hole and do not forget to water. With a warm autumn, the yield is excellent.

Note to the summer resident

The problem for summer crops is the rapid drying out of the soil, which is detrimental to sprouts and seeds that have hatched. It is advisable to cover the beds, shading in the heat. Water daily morning and evening if hot and dry.