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

Published 2024-06-26
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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All Comments (21)
  • @CaliKim29
    Which of these veggies will you plant in July? Thanks for gardening with us! -CaliKim & CameraGuy 🇺🇸Independence Day sale: 50% off all CaliKim Seed Collections, with code “JULYGARDEN”, calikimgardenandhome.com/. Ends 7.9.
  • @MamaBearPam
    I’m trying to start up my garden but having a hard time. It’s been hard doing anything after I was hit by a drink driver. I can barely walk.. but nothing will stop me from being a gardener. Love your channel.
  • @jaytoney3007
    Today and yeaterday it was 102F in the shade here in Sylauga AL. Living out in the country, it is always about five degrees hotter in the summer, and five deegrees colder in the winter than in the city where the temperature is recorded. All my plants are mulched, and I've had to switch to daily watering, some plants twice a day to keep my garden going. In July, I start transitioning to a fall garden. In a week, I'll plant fall potatoes, and on July 15th, I'll do seed starts for cabbage, and sow carrot and turnip seeds. In Auguast, I'll sow seed starts for cauliflower and broccoli. Then it is time for the ground cherries, summer squash, and carrots to come out. In September, I'll sow seeds for Yellow Heart Winter Choy and Boc Choy, and in October—garlic. I don't have my fall garden completely planned out, so there may be other plantings. My chicken run has arrived, so tomorrow and Friday I will be assembling it. It won't be long before the little chicks are moved out to their new home. The puma has returned; we lost another cat, Sneaky Pete, last night.
  • @marciaalec1106
    I've planted at least 3 of your list. I still have a Tiny Tim Tomato I planted several years ago. It just keeps coming back and it's produces a lot.
  • Thank you so much for this awesome video!! Really want to try cucumbers, basil, and sunflowers! Good luck everyone!
  • Your vegetable garden is clean and beautiful, it looks very nice
  • Last year my garden experiment was to plant throughout the season. We had rough bush beans to freeze and eat throughout the winter because of that and it was amazing-garden beans in February make the cold dreariness a little easier to bear.
  • Thank you Kim for the tips. I'm going to try the bush bean's I bout from you. Hopefully they will grow this time.
  • Shade cloth! Yes!!!! Thank you for the good idea about the new transplants! (Side note….we waited for” WELCOME TO MY GARDEN” at the beginning!)
  • I just made pesto for the first time with my Basil plants. It is absolutely delicious.
  • In Texas 8a it’s around 100 every day right now. My goal is to just try to keep my tomato plants alive for a fall harvest. Aug I will add compost and liquid fertilizer. Peppers are doing great under shade cloth. Right now is too hot for cukes although I think squash might be ok under shade cloth. I have some young basil plants that I can harvest soon and Orange Hat micro dwarfs on the porch that are blooming. Heat doesn’t seem to affect them like full size tomatoes.
  • @Sunny-xt9gw
    I am new to vegetable gardening. I am in Florida and had a cucumber plant growing really well until some aphids or something came around. I did insecticide spray and it destroyed the leaves. 🤦‍♀️ I am thinking I will be trying all these 5 plants out because it makes sense to continually keep up with the new plants as the others are nearing harvest.