July’s 5 MUST Plant Vegetables – No Matter Where You Live!

Don’t stop planting! Even in July, you can squeeze in another harvest before cooler weather hits. Discover the 5 best veggies to plant now, and three innovative ways to grow them for a fresh fall harvest. Perfect for overcoming the challenges of heat, pests, and disease.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS: (click the timestamp to re-watch your favorite part)
00:00 Introduction
00:26 – Don’t stop planting
00:46 – Plant in July #1: Determinate Tomatoes
01:33 – Planting strategy #1: Look for holes, gaps to plant in
02:59 – Plant in July #2: Basil
04:25 – BONUS TIP: Use shade cloth for transplants
05:29 – Plant in July #3: Squash
05:37 – Planting strategy #3: Plant in containers
06:53 – BONUS TIP: Mulch
08:03 – Plant in July #4: Beans
09:20 – Plant in July #5: Cucumbers
09:33 – Planting strategy #3: Start seeds in 6 packs OUTSIDE
10:46 – BONUS TIP: Morning sun, afternoon shade for 6 packs
11:00 – BONUS: Plant in July #6: Sunflowers

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hi everyone I’m CaliKim the summer garden is in full swing but a lot of gardeners and maybe you’re one of them stop planting in July either because you think it’s too late in the growing season or maybe you’re discouraged because of all the heat and the pests that are ruining your vegetables but I’m going to show you five vegetables that you need to plant in July why you can plant them now and also as a bonus three ways to plant them that you might not have thought about for those of you that think it’s too late in the growing season it’s really not the key to these vegetables that you’re going to plant in July is that they’re easy to grow quick growing grow from seed to harvest in about 6 to8 weeks so that way you can still get a harvest late in the summer and even into the fall before the temperatures get too cold for them I like to call this my late summer garden the first crop you must plant in July are tomatoes and the reason why this one can work is because it’s a dwarf variety so it’s a smaller plant a determinant variety tomato so it goes from seed to harvest in about 60 days and determinate tomatoes produce all their crop at once so that way you have a good late crop of tomatoes in August or September as opposed to the large indeterminate varieties that I have here on my tomato string trellis take 90 days to harvest and it’s really too late in the growing season to plant those but determinant varieties of tomato are perfect to plant now maybe one reason you haven’t planted in July is because you don’t think you have the space you don’t want to set up a whole new raised bed or a new planter but you actually do it’s hidden in in plain sight and that’s strategy number one for planting in July is look for spots in your garden where you might have holes or gaps where you can tuck plants in for example I just trimmed back this big chard plant right here it was going to seed and it opened up a little hole here in my garden a little gap here in my garden between my two existing Tiny Tim plants now I already dug the hole just to save time on the video but it’s a perfect spot to pop Tiny Tim cuz it only grows to about 2 feet tall and that way when this Tiny Tim is done producing because it’s a determinant plant it’s going to grow to a set size and then produce most of its crop at once it’ll be done in a couple of months I’ll have a brand new plant to take its place with fresh new tomatoes to harvest so I’ve got my whole dug already just going to mend the soil a little bit my homemade compost touch of granular organic fertilizer I’m just going to pop Tiny Tim right in the hole now this is a beautiful little transplant I started from seed indoors about six weeks ago but you can actually start from seed right now too I’ll tell you more about that later in the video so easy to plant perfect for harvesting late in the summer other great determinant varieties are Oregon Spring Hill it’s a good cold or tolerant variety for later season harvest or Golden Nugget Tiny Tim seeds are in my Late Summer Garden Seed collection one thing I love about Tiny Tim too is you don’t have to set up a big huge tomato cage a small little tomato cage will work fine it’s only about a two foot tall plant but it really packs a punch lots and lots of tomatoes from Tiny Tim crop number two is basil and here I have another little hole in my garden bed which is a perfect spot to pop a few more plants now I do have some transplants again which I started from seed indoors but you don’t have to start from seeds indoors you can just plant seeds right here in your garden bed one of my favorite basil varieties is also in my late summer garden seed collection brand new just added it and it’s called Prospera Compact Basil and here’s an example of it right here it is an absolutely beautiful basil variety when reason why I love it so much is it’s resistant to disease now a lot of times disease pops in your garden here late in the summer or midsummer time but not with this one it’s a gorgeous variety quickly grows and is resistant to bolting which a lot of times when it gets too hot in the summertime your basil will flower and bolt and go to seed but this is a little pelleted seed it’s called so it makes it super easy to plant and just drop right into your garden bed and just quickly cover the seeds up with the warm weather we’re having having it’ll sprout within a couple of weeks and you’ll be harvesting basil on and on into the late summer and into the fall you can also start from transplant like I have here and basil likes a little bit of dappled sunlight so there a perfect spot for it it’s partially shaded but gets just enough Sun to produce some beautiful basil leaves and these basil leaves are absolutely delicious and we’re going to be harvesting them in no time you gardeners mind if I break script for just a moment and share a really important tip with you I think it’s super important important that you know this when you’re transplanting in August Mama Bear Pam left a comment about this on our YouTube live stream and by the way don’t miss our live streams on Monday at noon Pacific Time but she said every time I put transplants in the ground from Home Depot they die what’s wrong well what you need to do here in July because it is so hot when you’re putting transplants in your garden bed use shade cloth to cover them for a couple of days until the roots get established in the ground so they don’t burn up in the Heat and I’ve been doing this for the past couple of years and it really does make a difference to helping your transplants get off to a good start so you have plants instead of dead plants what shade cloth does is it blocks out a percentage of the Sun’s UV rays so your plants are protected and then once they get the roots established you can uncover them and let them have the full sunlight to grow secured it with the bricks here at the top and then clipping it to a nearby trellis with these binder clips the third vegetable you have to plant in July is squash squash grows so fast and you can Harvest it at the end of July if you plant some now the second strategy to planting right now is to plant in containers either with containers that are kind of reaching the end of their life like this one is here or plant in a fresh new container now sometimes it’s a whole lot easier to start over with a new plant than it is to try and save a struggling plant and these beans here are getting really beaten up from the heat so I’m going to take them out and plant some new squash plants here in this 20 gallon smart pot we’ve been harvesting off these for a couple of months some lettuce that’s bolting and going to seed few little bonus Harvest here at the end of their life plant a new squash plant in this container give it a fresh new look and have fresh new veggies to harvest so I’ve got some of the spent bean plants removed I ended up leaving a couple of them in that are still producing pretty well and don’t look too bad and I’m going to amend my garden bed with some compost here and a little sprinkle organic fertilizer always important put extra little food in the hole here when you’re planting again so I’m going to pop in one of my scallop squash and by the way these are from my Late Summer Garden Seed Collection I have a whole line of 30 seed collections grouped by season or by vegetable so as the bean plants here are finishing up I’ll have a new scallop squash to take its place and to harvest and enjoy in the late summer another little bonus tip to help your transplants survive the summer heat make sure that you really really heavily mulch your plants about 2 inches of mulch on top of the soil will help them retain moisture and survive the summer heat here I’m using a shredded straw mulch which will help reduce water evaporation too so you don’t have to water as much squash are also very easy to plant from seed this time of the year and the great thing is they grow so fast because the weather is so warm here I’ve got a container of squash zucchini squash and I’m going to pop some scalloped squash seeds for my Late Summer Garden Seed Collection right in the middle so that way when the these zucchini are all done got another beautiful little seedlings popping up to take its place so this strategy is called succession planting if you’re a new gardener you might have heard that term and not known what it means it just means you’re planting in succession at intervals to spread your harvest out and to keep them rolling in so I’m just going to pop some seeds here right in the middle just push them down in so easy about a/ in or so into the soil a very easy strategy to keep planting in July and be harvesting all summer vegetable number four are beans now you all know how much I love beans and they are a power producer just like squash and if you don’t have an existing container already that you’re planting and you’re pulling things out just grab a new container and pop some bean seeds in again they pop up super super fast when the weather is warm 70 to 90° I absolutely love the July heat so you can just pop some seeds right in your container here put down in the hole about a half an inch or so is your beautiful Dwarf Taylor Bean they’re a cream colored bean with purple speckles absolutely delicious and so pretty to add to your July garden and the cool thing about Smart pPots 5 gallon containers is you can easily pick them up move them into the shade or into the sun depending on what your weather is and before you know it your beans are going to be popping up looking something like this you’ll be harvesting them in about 6 weeks and it’s so much easier to plant a new wave of fresh healthy vegetables rather than trying to stay struggling vegetable like the ones I just pulled out in my blue smart pot you can start your tomato seeds exactly the same way save yourself the time of setting up your G lights again this time of the year just drop yourself a few seeds in each one of the six-pack seed cells and you are good to go vegetable number five is cucumbers I absolutely love a garden fresh cucumber especially during the dog days of summer don’t you agree and one of my very favorite cucumbers is Diva cucumber and the third strategy that you can use to plant in July is to plant in little six-packs and the cool thing is you don’t have to start them from seed indoors under grow lights it’s warm enough here this month you can just pop your seeds in the six packs and then let them germinate right outside in your garden or on your deck or patio and then once you’re pulling out plants that are past the end of their life you have transplants to pop in to take their place so the Diva cucumber is just an absolutely amazing variety so productive it’s called a parthenocarpic cucumber which means that it doesn’t need bees in order to pollinate it’s got mostly female flowers and it grows the most delicious thin skin cucumbers you’ve ever had and I’ve just added this seed variety to my late summer garden seed collection so now you can grab them over calikim garding home.com and grow them yourself so I’m just popping a couple of seeds in each six-pack just poking them down about a 4th inch into the soil and we’ll have lots of new cucumbers to take our old cucumbers place when they’re dying out in about a month now your seeds are going to pop up quickly and grow here in July and in just a couple of weeks you’ll have some little transplants that’ll look something like this little tip here when you’re starting seeds in your six packs outdoors place them in an area where they get only morning sun and then afternoon shade that way they don’t dry out quite as much keeps your plants from getting overheated and they’re going to be a lot healthier for it and you skip the step of hardening off when you start them in six packs outdoors they’re already grown outside so it makes it that much easier for you to succession plant in your garden I decided to add one bonus crop to plan in July because I absolutely love planting for the pollinators we want to keep the bees around in our late summer garden so I’m going to plant some sunflowers one of my favorite varieties for my sunflower seed collection is the teddy bear sunflower it’s a nice compact about a 2 foot sunflower grows super quickly and pop some in here in your six pack and I’m actually going to pop them in my garden bed in about a month or so when some of my zenas are coming to an end and I’ll have a fresh new beautiful teddy bear sunflowers to take their place and the pollinators will continue to keep coming to my garden let me know which of these vegetables you’ll be planting with me in July I suggest you plant all of them so we can keep the harvest rolling In the late summer into the fall I’ll be reading the comments thanks for watching see you next time in the garden