Starting July

[cambourne7]

Hi All,

With one thing and another i am very behind again so as it stands i have NOTHING planted and the ants still rein supreme :( might have to try a 2nd dose of nematodes.

Well had some leeks and onions but they all ran to seed.

Anyway, I am only home 8 days next month and only to sleep going to be pretty mad so have thrown in the towel. I am going to see if i can pick up some plants from the organic plant place in doddington but failing that what can i plan in July from seed?

Cam
aka the ant killer

[cambourne7]

[galina]

Hi All,

With one thing and another i am very behind again so as it stands i have NOTHING planted and the ants still rein supreme :( might have to try a 2nd dose of nematodes.

Well had some leeks and onions but they all ran to seed.

Anyway, I am only home 8 days next month and only to sleep going to be pretty mad so have thrown in the towel. I am going to see if i can pick up some plants from the organic plant place in doddington but failing that what can i plan in July from seed?

Cam
aka the ant killer

Quite a lot.  All sorts of lettuces (although they prefer a cool couple of days, as lettuce does not like to germinate in hot temperatures).  Turnips.  Oriental salads.  You can just about get away with a sowing of dwarf French beans.  Ditto beetroot and Nantes carrots or the round short stumpy carrots.  Could you stick a courgette in some soil indoors to plant out?  Sowing outdoors would be pushing it, but a transplanted one might succeed much better.  Rocket, cress, radish, endive, spring onion.

Good luck.

[cambourne7]

would have loved runner beans, pumpkin and squash so maybe a few pots outside might be an experiment.

[goodlife]

Brassicas...all the leafy types as well as roots...though if you can get hold of or grow the plants yourself advance, they will still have time to grow for good harvest later on the year.
You could do with some more perennial veg plants..then you don't have to worry about sowing so much...
Oh..don't forget planting some garlic later on the year...!

[antipodes]

I would try sowing outside squash anyway, under fleece. If they work they will run out of the fleece...
In July - autumn carrots and beetroot, fennel if you like it, the chinese cabbages and pak choy, lambs lettuce, plant leek plants. Early July definitely a last sowing of French beans, they will be OK before the frosts.

[Silverleaf]

There are about a million different oriental veggies you can try - lots of them can't be planted before midsummer anyway, so they'd be perfect.