10 Crops You'd Be Foolish Not to Plant in July

Plant these crops now so you can harvest all the way up to your first frost!
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:13 Cucumbers
02:03 Green Beans
03:10 Summer Squash
04:36 Tips For Starting Seeds in the Heat of July
06:05 Giveaway
06:38 Carrots
07:13 Carrot Board Trick
08:24 Lettuce
09:34 Swiss Chard
10:31 Brassicas (Cauliflower, Broccoli, Cabbage, Kale)
11:44 Basil
12:44 Parsley
13:11 Red Malabar Spinach
13:48 Sunflowers
14:42 Final Thoughts
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[@jamesprigioni]

Share this video if you are still planting! Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:13 Cucumbers 02:03 Green Beans 03:10 Summer Squash 04:36 Tips For Starting Seeds in the Heat of July 06:05 Giveaway 06:38 Carrots 07:13 Carrot Board Trick 08:24 Lettuce 09:34 Swiss Chard 10:31 Brassicas (Cauliflower, Broccoli, Cabbage, Kale) 11:44 Basil 12:44 Parsley 13:11 Red Malabar Spinach 13:48 Sunflowers 14:42 Final Thoughts Thanks for the kind words and support 😁🐕❤

[@rondagantt485]

Thanks so much, for all your wonderful tips 😊

[@4Rascals321]

Nice with time stamps!!!

[@yukey2587]

You will be 'sow' thankful that you did.....

[@messiahmindset2964]

Do you just have a book for all months ?

[@yukey2587]

@messiahmindset2964 ah, the joys of knowing your local frost dates and climate zone. It took a while, knowing how many days God gave me between frosts, what the idiosynchraties of my area are, and reading a lot of seed packets. Just think. You can make your own food lists and your own monthly recipes. Lots of salads in spring, tomato and cucumber recipes in late summer, and root vegetable in fall. Borscht, anyone?

[@patrickdunn8918]

When you have a really cool dog as a sidekick… Life is good.

[@jonzimmerman798]

Your my favorite KZbin garden channel by far!! My garden has grown three fold because of your advice and enthusiasm!! Keep it up! Thanks

[@tanisha.r.thomas]

Me, too. And, my normally stubborn husband actually listens to him, too😂😂 Win Win

[@4Rascals321]

Love the little Tuckster!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤ I am so happy to see Tuck eating organically! Crops to grow!: 1. Cucumbers - Socrates, the more you pick, the more they grow 2. Green Beans - Dragon Tongue Bean, 60 days seed to harvest, diced leaf mulch, 3. Summer Quash - Zucchini, Patty Pan Squash, Gelber Englischer custard squash, The more you pick - the more will grow 4. Carrots - Try not to transplant, they like to grow where they are planted 5. Lettuce - slow bolt leaf lettuce, 6. Swiss Chard - Easy grow 7. Brassicas - Broccoli, Cauliflower, Kale, Cabbage, start under shade cloth 8. Basil - Prune to eat, and more will grow 9. Parsley - Hardy - will grow into cold weather 10. Red Malabar Spinach - vine - tropical plant BONUS: Sunflowers -- Florenza Sunflower 65 to 75 days to bloom

[@humanbeing4368]

8. Basil 😅

[@brandywineblue]

Thank you for doing this. Much needed!

[@jessilynfernandez6265]

Tysm! This is great

[@beareroflife]

Thank u

[@tanisha.r.thomas]

I can't my shitzu to eat anything let alone free fruit❤❤

[@tranquileyesme7221]

Watching your pup eat the garden harvest was so bittersweet for me. My senior dog passed in mid February and he was always there to grab a snack from my garden throughout the summer and fall. I still have two sweet pup babies with me but neither one of them are “into it”. Although the youngest (almost two year old Yorkie poodle) loves to bat a cherry tomato around like a ball , playing hide and seek in the grass with it before finally eating it. Love your channel and love your dog! Take care 😊

[@marical123]

Tuck is such a cutie pie! I truly love him being part of the gardener community!❤

[@mcgritty8842]

Perfect timing! I just put a bunch of herbs, leafy greens and peppers into starter trays and was thinking I might be too late but figured I would learn either way 😂

[@AugustLeo1619]

I don't have a problem with getting carrots to sprout. My problem is getting them to grow to maturity and be a decent size. My carrots look like shoe strings😢

[@lindaseel9986]

Is your soil well worked? Nice and loose?

[@AugustLeo1619]

@@lindaseel9986 yes really loose soil. I have carrots in raised beds and containers and no luck yet

[@user-te9iu7sf5b]

That’s what happens to my carrots too.

[@49lucky]

Yeah me 2😅😅😅

[@patrickkirwan3353]

The soil needs to be firm for carrots to push down into. True story!

[@kimm1780]

LOVE that Tuck gets his own cucumbers! He truly is the best!

[@kylel4799]

Fantastic video. This is my first year of successfully creating a diy backyard planter and seeing the plants not only grow from seed, but actually thrive and actually explode in beauty. To be fair, it was only nasturtium and cosmos flowers (the nasturtium being the edible of the two)... but it's been 3 years of trying based on different products and soil types to get anything going. I think I've got the basics down and can't wait to start growing carrots, lettuce, beans and so much more. We have the land and we have our hands... c'mon world, let's grow!

[@lindaseel9986]

The Young King Tuck! Working in the cucumber patch. 💗💕🤗😃♥️💝

[@jadarianharris4873]

❤️ ❤️ ❤️ Tuck lives his best life! Thank you James for always encouraging to grow!

[@LSFprepper]

I just harvested 17 lbs of potatoes and immediately put in 40 more bush beans in their place. 😊

[@tanisha.r.thomas]

Thank you! Will be doing this when mine come up

[@lonleyndn]

Everyone should put bush beans in their place! 🙂

[@kmagnussen1052]

I missed harvesting some carrots and found them under the mulch in January in Texas. Those carrots could qualify as candy. Best carrots I ever had. My cat even ate a little.

[@TheNotehead]

Every video gives me at least one or two tips or reminders that help me have a better garden throughout the season. I just can’t imagine the amount of time it takes to thoroughly tend to a garden as diverse and enormous as what James has!

[@SherryEllesson]

Great video, James. Love seeing The Boss 🥰🥰🥰🥰 getting his snacks and both of you planning for a continuing harvest season into Fall.

[@nynes_goods]

I've been following you for a few years now; love your content and you were my first inspiration to start gardening! I've started creating content of my own for zone 9b. ❤❤❤

[@litaclayton946]

You are an amazing gardener and instructor 🍎 Have learned a tremendous amount from you channel Have you considered writing a book?? ❤️ for Tuck. Beautiful garden in such a small space😍 Blessings to you and yours

[@roxannern9393]

Loving your seed starting cells! Seriously having more success with your starting cells than any other ever before. And, I have spent serious bucks over the last 2 years K's worth and finally when I was about to give up on seed starting, your starter cells (a last ditch effort) saved me from quitting!!!

[@Cardioqueenmom]

Perfect timing, I got some more gourds in ground today! Hoping for a nice pumpkin patch for the neighborhood kids 😊

[@toniatalley1977]

❤❤❤ Tuck loves his garden fresh produce!!! He's working so hard. Great video

[@r.bishop1127]

I love your energy, enthusiasm, knowledge and tucker! I'm learning so much ❤

[@armyrabb1]

Off the subject, but I finally got my first load of free wood chips thanks to the local power company. I'm laying it thick in my forest.around my existing beds. I did not pull up any of the existing grass/weeds. I'm laying it about six inches thick. Anything that tries to grow through that will be easily taken care of. By this time next year it should be well settled. I'm hoping my forest will resemble yours in a couple of years.

[@lindaseel9986]

We get a mountain of wood chips from our power company too. What a blessing

[@ricksmith2609]

Don't forget gautchi went 16 inches around his fruit trees and never watered decades later

[@tinad6812]

I just planted more kale today and going to plant more brassicas and squash tomorrow to have ready to transplant. Thank you. Perfect video for what I need to do right now. I really want an abundant fall harvest this year. 😊

[@jessicamccrimmon3804]

Love watching your videos! Very inspirational and informative! I am new a new subscriber and have just started gardening to encourage my family to be more self sufficient. I am preparing to plant in July but wasn’t sure on where to start. Now I know! My children are even excited to get started! Thanks again!! 👏🏽🙌🏽❤️🙌🏽🪴🥕🥒🥬🌻

[@suzannegrimes9743]

I just love your enthusiasm! It makes me want to grow more vegetables. Thanks for the encouragement ❤

[@kimnguyen5970]

You don't have to germinate your basil from the seed every time, just cut the branch from your basil plant and grow it straight to the soil and it will grow fast.

[@loismegin8036]

Or put the stem in water till it roots and then plant in the ground

[@roxannern9393]

🤣 this one (video) is so comforting! Zone 7a/b E TN. I planted cucumbers; white for Mom 82yo says they have "softer" skin that don't hurt her teeth and milder flavor that doesn't bother her stomach; and patty pan squash yesterday after pulling the very productive, as tall as me 5'4", Big Daddy pea plants and amending with 2" of compost. We still have 20 zucchini and summer squash plants from 20 seeds--seed started with your starter cells expecting for only a few to live as per past seed starting failures...Thanks again!

[@scout7060]

I agree about Swiss Chard being a great plant. Am planting more of it this year and will freeze it for eating all winter long.

[@ildiko1vt]

my dogs LOVE cukes and carrots too!! wish i had a garden like yours James. Moving from NJ to VT changes the gardening scene. Love watching you!

[@spottedsparrowgardens9999]

Love watching you and Tuck in the garden. My gardening this year hasbeen rushed as my dog is older and cant walk this summer very well. We usually stay in the garden all day but not this year. Thanks for reminding us what we need to plant etc. And help my overwhelmed brain remember to get out there and do my 2nd round of planting in time! Love little Tuck ❤❤

[@teribelleau137]

Thanks James. Really appreciate your channel. ❤😊

[@anasgarden24]

🐶❤❤Tuck ❤❤🐶 I ate my very first cucumber yesterday yay!!! Well we ate it (Tony🐶 Lulu 🐶 mom & dad, Joe and I)..I cut the cucumber in fourths. And today I cut my very first zucchini 😁 Thanks James for the inspiration and very good information on growing our garden., and thanks to your brother for the videos we really appreciate you guys very much . 💕💕💕

[@janeramerth]

Thank you for the tips-I love your passion for gardening 😊

[@tracypeden3961]

I think this is the first of yours I've seen. Thank you! So many good ideas! I'm being transplanted myself mid-July and this gives me dreams of a new garden in the new place 😊 Looking forward to more from you!

[@spadl9529]

I direct sowed pumpkin, a few zuch, and a watermelon. Man they sprouted so fast in the 95 degree heat and loved the full sun no shade. I trim the pointed tip of squash seeds which speeds up germination

[@dorifogle5934]

best gardening personality on youtube. I love u :3

[@jannettebailey6487]

I love your excitement. You make me get out there and start planting.

[@cindystimson3632]

Tuck ❤❤❤❤ Glad you are enjoying your time in the garden.

[@smas3256]

Your food forest is an inspiration. Thanks James. We have no 😸😸or 🐕. Must be squirrels burying acorns knocked over our garlic. Near the roots of one had red corms or bulbits. I'll be planting those for scapes. We're to old to be raising another adorable child or pet. 🥰♥, Still lots to do. Our garden is wonderful.

[@samanthahoos9827]

😊 Thank you! I started some seeds 2 weeks ago in the greenhouse and they eventually fried. I started some the same day in the house and they’re leggy. I tried some direct sown and a rabbit found my yard. This weekend I’ll start again but this time use shade cloth, cages over seeded areas and try again at in the house.

[@urbanblaster9332]

We ❤ Tuck, lets go! Great video I am gonna go seed some cucumbers right now!

[@georgehays4908]

Tuck for president !

[@ClickinChicken]

Thanks again guy. Enjoy your passion. ♥♥'s for the Tuckmeister!

[@constancegurtisen9330]

I just love your enthusiasm and knowledge. Thanks

[@margiechism]

Thank you ■ Will try to plant! M

[@gavinvdm]

So glad I live in a part of the world where I can garden all year round

[@helenelkins1003]

❤❤❤ Tuck & James!!! This is my first garden, and I've gotten so much from you!!

[@saintmig1101]

I wait till mid July to plant summer squash when the squash bug is leaving( zone 6) Thanks James and Tuck🥰

[@katieb1836]

Thanks for the tip. Squash bugs are my biggest pest! I will try a summer planting and see how it goes.

[@Scarecrow-bv3rw]

You have taught and reminded me so much on tending the garden. God is so good! Thank you!

[@MindAx13]

I absolutely love the dragon's tongue beans! They get so big so quickly and the flavor is great

[@beckymartinez9926]

I love that Tuck gets his own snacks! 😄 I really enjoy your energy and enthusiasm and seeing your harvest especially because you can grow things I can’t…like cherries and blueberries. There is no way I could plant carrots or lettuce right now in my area at 100 degrees every day but swiss chard, kale, and basil do well with shade cloth. I have to germinate indoors and directly move to outside. Even my cukes, squash, and melons need protection from the sun. Micro dwarf tomatoes grow quickly and are prolific. Orange Hat is my favorite. I have to transplant my sunflowers because of my chickens who steal my seeds. Mine are currently 10’-12’ tall but started in tp rolls. Unfortunately they draw in insects that decimate their leaves and look diseased and ugly most of the season.

[@elfwoodadventures2103]

I'm from Maine and I loved seeing that Fedco seed packet for cucumbers!

[@jasonday7155]

Haven't watched your videos for a minute but always love them! Also.. so happy to see Tuck in full healthy form!❤

[@cynthiasterling7892]

I didn’t know you could plant different veggies in July, thanks 💚💚🤩🌟✨

[@vickywalton3394]

I never knew to take the cover off the seedlings trays 🤦‍♀️ thank you! ... Hugs to Tuck, my favorite TV dog 😉

[@juliettedemaso7588]

I just ordered slobolt lettuce seeds and some green beans, cucumbers, carrots and other goodies to plant thanks to you! I usually plant continuously through the season, but without focus, just willy nilly and cross my fingers lol Thank you, James, l so love your gardens!

[@thehoobah7413]

Thank you for creating such wonderful content. You and Tuck are two of the inspirations that got me out in the garden again this year! Much love & happy gardening 💕🪴

[@bizzybee852]

Thanks James, I got a late start this year so I only have a few things growing, so this video was really helpful in letting me know what I can still plant. I live in rural Georgia, so it is really piping hot here, 103 yesterday, and I thought it was too late to plant many of the vegetables you mentioned. I was happy to hear that there are at least ten things I can still plant. Well, maybe only nine for me, I will take a hard pass on the malabar spinach, lol!

[@sharongarrett4356]

This was very helpful & hopeful, so thank you! And "Amen!" on the Swiss chard. PS-been having basil-motz-tomato brunches every day!

[@blkvixon]

Great video. I was waiting for it

[@annettelebhardt4073]

I really appreciate your video's and of course I love, love, love watching Tuck enjoy his snacks 💖💖

[@life.re-defined]

I love your channel James. Such great info. I have been gardening for a looooong time but I still always learn a ton here.

[@NicolaiAAA]

I actually started a few things just recently because I figured "Why not." Just went full Ivan Drago on them - if they die, they die. 🤣

[@5littlearrows]

Lol

[@tanisha.r.thomas]

Balls to the Wall😂😂😂 I do it ever year for 10 + years!!!

[@crownofhair]

This has been my approach for many years 😅😂 it's a long term experiment 🤣

[@Mrgreenjeans578]

James you’re the best gardener!! Beautiful gardens!!❤ thank you for sharing your experience

[@judyandersen3842]

Your videos and instructions are great! Thank you so much for sharing! Love you Tucker!

[@yonettethomas6270]

Thank you James. I definitely want to plant carrots!

[@clairehiker]

Thanks, James!

[@kpr0ck]

I would love to see a vid of u starting your garden in spring... one with u planting out every single bed

[@rebeccaamador6679]

You are a gifted commumicator! Thank you

[@kimmileusnic3249]

Thank you James! 💚🌱🌿🪴🌿🌱💚 I pinch off a portion of basil, add it to water, let it root and replant in soil. This way I always have basil.

[@awinbush99]

❤❤❤s for Tuck! James, thanks for the inspiration and motivation!

[@user-kz7fu3mv9l]

Thank you! Good info

[@lyta1138]

I love Swiss Chard. Between the leaf miners and rabbits I haven't gotten much yet. Will be planting more.

[@veronicadoggone5660]

Luffa gourds! I love growing them in mid summer because they're indestructable plants. Plus they shade my tatsoi & carrots just at the right time durinf the hotest part of the day

[@Kel0027]

Let's GO!!! love your channel. My cucumbers plants are crazy!! No cukes yet. I have learned a lot from your channel. Thank You!!!!

[@sherrylingenfelter8991]

I have Socrates seeds too. I just planted a batch of bush cucumbers. They’re growing great!

[@bethgoodwin9697]

Love this list! Thanks 🥒🥦🥬🥕

[@proggers1180]

LET'S GOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

[@chrismcc2033]

YES! LETS GOOOOOO!!!

[@Hypnowally]

Going to plant some more cucumbers now , thought it was to late. ❤thank you.

[@sosgardening]

Great suggestions and especially for the shade cloth for outside seeding. For myself I do all my seeds in a tiny section of my laundry room, works for a tiny garden but def. not your food forest!

[@ptdesignsco]

Thanks again, James and Tuck!

[@shelbybutler9714]

Your tips are very helpful. I love Swiss chard, both as an edible green, and as a pretty plant for the garden. I am happy to know that I can sow a new one, since my old one bolted, last month.

[@NORATECHNOLOGIES]

Amazing garden . Great video .

[@doloresreynolds8145]

JP 159. Still planting here in SW Michigan, zone 5a or 5b, depending on when you ask 🤣. ❤ for you and Tuck, thanks for all you do. Excellent information every time.

[@justinemidgley228]

I love the videos , always helpful. ❤❤❤ For little Tuck man .

[@JenniferD.-wt4uj]

I love all your videos 😊!

[@jamesprigioni]

Let’s Gooo!!! 😁🐕❤️

[@christinagardener1889]

Tuck is so cute!

[@robinbittner2977]

I Love your channel. I'm brand new to gardening. I live in the Sandhills of North Carolina. The ground is almost useless.so I've started with containers and am expecting to build a couple raised beds. Thanks for doing what you do.

[@deborahplyler6528]

Thanks for sharing.

[@cathysterling1237]

Oh yeah I live in Texas. Sometimes that matters. In Lovelady between Crockett and Huntsville. Again THANKS

[@honeybadgers1996]

Great info, James. I see Tuck is working very hard in the garden.

[@bagel3703]

Video came at the perfect time. Just harvested my potatoes and needed some ideas

[@JanetCulver]

Awesome video. Thanks❤

[@jenniferrevilla5298]

I grew Swiss chard for the first time last summer. I love it, especially dehydrsted. I add it to soups, spaghetti sauce, omelettes, nachos, on and on. I dry it, flake it and sprinkle it on everything. I get my greens that way all winterblong. I made English muffin pizza s the other day and sprinkled on the tops. It is invaluable to me now.

[@angelaslatzer9263]

Great idea! I never thought to dehydrate chard :) There is one that I love though, it's called "Perpetual Spinach" which is actually a chard but it tastes just like spinach and doesn't bolt in the heat. Think I'll try dehydrating that!

[@jerome7363]

thanks bro. very informative and well spoken. much love to you, the cameraman and tuck. keep it up.

[@Viva_la_natura]

So true about Swiss chard. I grow it in rows super dense, like Lettuce. It's way better when not grown to full size.. it's not kale. So many great varieties from Italy other than Rainbow..it's spinach all summer.

[@natasham.3423]

Very useful video, thank you!

[@anijohnson8082]

We love you so much in our house. You are so funny and sweet. You have a wonderful personality and we wo uld have loved to have had a son like you. Oh and we just love Tuck too! Everybody has got to love this boy. Tuck, have I got a girl for you. I love the way you have him cut. Love his ears. You are both sweet boys. Keep the videos coming. You are so good at doing them. Love your teachings...I've learned so much! Thank you for the blessings!! We here, are in our 60's and we are learning so much from you boys!!@

[@tanisha.r.thomas]

Me, too. We had all girls. We look like we could be related. Same body type and personality. And, I talk a mile a minute😂😂 He would fit in perfect😂❤

[@mariaotero7383]

Lovely T-shirt gardening is life. Wow so soft!!! I need to get at least three more different colors 😊

[@jamesprigioni]

Let’s Gooo!

[@Silvereagledude]

Good stuff, James