Avatar_default_user_small
Reputation: 874
Follow 0
Follow 1

I get hold of a vegetable garden in a week. What can I plant mid-July?

It is in Seattle. It's overrun by weeds, but I figure I can clear it up in a day or two. It's not the best time to start gardening - so what should I do? I want to hit the ground running and not wait until next year.

Bion Satir asked in Edibles & Herbs 10 months ago | Report

Answer this question or share it with a smart friend:

Avatar_default
Type your answer here…

Asker's Favorite

  • Img_2864_small
    Reputation: 203
    Follow 0
    Sarah Cassidy

    You could start, like TOMORROW, some hardy overwintering carrots, or beets, or lettuce, or radishes, or arugula, or some other green.

    OR you could go to the Seattle Tilth Harvest Fest in something like September and pick out some great over-wintering broccoli starts or cabbage varietals to plunk into your soil then, after weeding and amending it with compost.

    OR you could wait til October and start your KILLER garlic crop in very well-cover cropped soil (from now-Oct).

    Here is what I would do, though: I would hit the ground enhancing, Andrew, so that I could KILL in the veggie bounty next year. You can start some buckwheat cover crop now, a summer beauty that feeds your soil like manna; chop it in when in flower, then sow a hardy vetch/rye cover crop by Sept/Oct for over-winter nourishment. (OR grow favas in the fall: they will grow slowly over time and by spring they will feed YOU (pick their pods)and the SOIL (leave the rest in situ and then chop into the soil)with their crazy, huge, pink nitrogen nodules!) By spring, not only will your soil know that you love it, it will know how to grow INSANE vegetables. Because it was fed so well! You may then grow almost anything, because you did the nourishment footwork.

    Sarah Cassidy answered in Edibles & Herbs 10 months ago | Report
    1 comment by Bion Satir…
    Share this answer with a friend:

1 Other Answer

  • Card_small
    Reputation: 341
    Follow 0

    July is the perfect time to start fall and winter crops. Kale, collards, rutabagas, etc. See Territorial Seed's winter catalog for more ideas.

    Or you can start lettuce and spinach; just make sure you keep them watered.

    Greg Barnes answered in Edibles & Herbs 10 months ago | Report
    1 comment by Bion Satir…
    Share this answer with a friend: