June 9, 2024

VIDEO: Best Succession Crops for Summer Planting


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It’s the middle of summer and harvests are coming thick and fast! But as you pick and pull some very obvious gaps will be starting to appear. To keep your garden productive for as long as possible you need to plug those gaps with more plants, pronto!

In this short video we’ll share the best vegetables for planting as soon as you have space.

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29 thoughts on “VIDEO: Best Succession Crops for Summer Planting

  1. Carrots, cauliflower, leeks and Chinese cabbage. i wanted some kale too, but i couldn't find organic seeds and my family insists on only planting wild and/or organic crops.

  2. Thank you for your wonderful work 🙂 I am a learner and enjoying this very much. I am planting medicinal CBD hemp and medicinal CBG hemp 🙂 Polycultured with mullein leaf (lung health) and beets and radishes and daikon for their tap roots 🙂 Learning and Sharing the Learning 🙂

  3. I'm in the mid-Atlantic region and just last week I started indoors broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, beets, a variety of lettuces and other greens to go out for the fall. Any suggestions on how get spinach to germinate? Right now I have seeds in our living room where the temp is in the low 70's (this is the coldest spot in the house). Thank you

  4. Im in Central TX. just sowed more tomatoes & peppers. Have enough season left to harvest into September/October. Too hot & early for fall crops. I wish I had started some more squash.

  5. I've planted leeks to follow early potatoes and over-wintering cauliflower to follow garlic. Kale, chard and cabbages waiting for the next gaps to appear and I will be trying to squeeze in some turnips.

  6. I tend to get overwhelmed this time of year with harvest storage that I tend not to get much new planted. I am trying more seed saving so crops stay in longer than usual. But I plant things like bok Choy, wax beans, late peas and most importantly cover crops in those gaps. Annual rye and buckwheat have a lot of time to work right now – just remember to cut them before they go to seed. If you want to grow buckwheat Or amaranth for seed I recommend not doing it in your garden!

  7. I tried Dragon Tongue beans this year and fell in love with them. However I did not order enough for a second planting, boohoo, but will plant more green beans. I did not plan ahead and sow any seeds inside for summer planting but like you I love greens and through the winter I planted beets in my unheated greenhouse for the greens that I ate throughout the winter months. Nice!

  8. I always find good advice from this channel. I also like the planting calendar very much where I get a reminder what I can start sowing and planting in the spring. Great channel. Thanks for sharing.

  9. I always start some more tomato plants in containers 4-6 weeks after I put ones out or in the ground. When the first plants get weaker at the end of August, the new ones are coming on and last into the warm early days of October or beyond (in New Jersey tomatoland)

  10. A great , informative site, thank you. I’ve just planted a couple of rows of beetroot and radishes direct into
    the soil and some French beans which I’ve started in the greenhouse. This year has been brilliant for blackberries, French beans, runner beans and potatoes but absolutely useless for onions and garlic. I look forward to your next video.

  11. Most packets of seed have expected days to harvest. Add 10 days for the lower sun and cooler temps as fall approaches, and add 10 days for harvesting the plants. Subtract these days from the first frost dare in your area.
    Provider beans have 50 days before beginning the harvest. Add 10 days for the changing weather conditions, and 10 days for length of harvest. Count back 70 days from first fall frost. October 3rd in my case. 70 days from October 3rd is July 25.
    I just sowed some Provider beans yesterday, August 2nd, so I am hoping for a late frost.

  12. I am excited to hear that there will be a new garden planner. I used the planner years ago and it was an excellent tool. I may subscribe again just to see how the app was changed. I am also in the process of switching over to all raised hugel beds and containers, just because I am getting too old to bend and crawl like I could 35 years ago.

  13. Hello! I just harvested the nicest spinach and lettuce I’ve ever grown. The spinach is thick and crisp and there’s no brown, sunburnt spots on the lettuce. I was inspired to try succession planting after watching this video. Thanks so much!

  14. It's 6/20 and although I'm finishing building my winter squash arch and planting today, I'm already planning for my fall & winter garden! Carrots, cabbage, beets, a mix of salad yummies and kohl rabi will move in. And I'll even plant more chard – it's not really a favorite but I hadn't thought of using it in smoothies – thanks!

  15. This will be my second year to try fall or overwintering vegetables. I've already direct-seeded carrots. I will add garlic, purple lady bok choi, purple turnips, Scotch kale, leeks, and lettuces as it cools down. My 3 raised beds are full sun all day, and I started late (mid-June, due to a move), so I haven't had any lettuce yet. Last year leeks, kale, turnips, chard and beets wintered over. I harvested the beets and chard, they were Spring-sown, but the rest I dug up and transplanted from my previous community garden plot to the new beds after I moved.

  16. hi Ben I am SOOO New at this Food forest veggie and flower garden. I started researching last March and discovered You Ben in November 2021. I have converted 5,600 Sq. Ft. Removing and smothering Grass and Ivy / Pachysandra. Trimmed my trees (the canopy layer) and spread 60 yards of wood chips on Brown paper to cover
    5,600 Sq. Ft, completed this task Oct and Nov of 2021 I have ordered Fruit trees and Bushes to Plant in late April. Constructed 4 compost buns (4 yards) for my Perennials and annuals

    My To Do List ; finish ordering seeds and Flowers; DONE
    Map out my new Food Forest DONE
    Study Companion Planting where to plant Flowers
    Study your VIDEOS
    Build a 12’ x 8’ HOOP HOT HOUSE. MAYBE IN 3 YEARS
    Buy a riding lawn Mower, ( I burned out the old one hauling wood chips). FALL OF 2022

    I think I need a Nap now!!!! SO, wish me luck ,I am going to need it along with prayers.

  17. You’ve inspired. I’m going to try purple sprouting broccoli (only recently able to find this in Canada) and some golden beets. I have a three by three sq ft space in the rockery to which I added a nice depth of soil and compost. It has become home to herbs, lettuce, mustard, dill, radishes, and green onions. I’ve become obsessed with filling space with pollinators and food crops. Thank you! Still enjoying your book as well.

  18. In summer I plant lettuce, spinach, cilantro, dill, daikon and other types of radish, turnips, Chinese cabbage and, of course, cauliflower. In my climate (zone 5, but it`s very hot in summer), cauliflower planted in spring blooms in the heat. Spinach winters well under the snow.

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