6 Crops to Plant in August for Late Summer Harvest 🌿🍅🥒

hi everyone will I always want to have fresh vegetables to pick from my garden and today I'm gonna plant six new crops here in August so that when my summer vegetables are finishing up and starting to die out I'll have some fresh new vegetables ready to pick now I know what you're thinking if you're like me your garden beds are full well not a problem because today we're gonna actually create some new space by growing vertically on a really simple inexpensive trellis and in containers and we're also going to tuck these plants into little holes in the garden beds now the crops I'm planting today are easy to grow and go from seed to harvest in about six to eight weeks that's why I'm planting these particular vegetables because there's still time to get a harvest before the cold weather hits now most of these can be planted directly in your garden beds which makes it really easy if you want to you can start from seeds indoors under grow lights but I just started these seeds in a tray here right outside on my deck the weather is nice and warm and they sprouted really fast now I just planted these on July 11th about three weeks ago ago and you can see how big they already are and they're ready to be planted now the first crop we're going to plant today is cucumbers now if you've grown cucumbers before you know they're a vining plant and they can take up a lot of space so we're gonna grow them vertically up a trellis now I am really excited about this trellis it's gonna make a nice little arch over the garden bed and I got the idea from Gary at the rest of the garden when he visited his house in Maryland about a month ago this is called ladder mesh I picked it up at Home Depot it's about 350 apiece so it's really inexpensive I have two pieces here that we're going to zip tie together and make a little arch over the garden bed so first off what I'm gonna do is attach my two pieces of ladder mesh with some zip ties I'm just gonna line it up and to end so I overlap the ladder mesh just a little bit I'm going to attach them as zip ties they're nice and secure and I'm also attaching the ends of each piece of ladder mesh to the other piece that way we don't have any sharp edges sticking out now that I have my two pieces of ladder mesh attached I'm just gonna arch it over at these two garden beds here now the great thing is because we're growing vertically our cucumbers are not going to take up a lot of space and neither is this trellis so look for a garden bed or two garden beds that you have a couple holes in pop the trellis in and you'll be good to go with your cucumbers so it's super easy to install just gonna push it down into the soil soil is nice and loose here and then arch it over but I'm really excited about this I think it's gonna really add some texture and dimension to the hill here it's gonna look really pretty you're putting it right down into the soil here now what I'm gonna do is just pound in a bamboo pole into my trellis here to just give it a little bit of extra support now I've had these pieces of bamboo around my yard for a lot of years you can use anything you have around your yard just something that's nice and sturdy that will provide a little bit of extra support for your trellis okay now let's go to the other side now the variety of cucumbers I'm planting today are the space master cucumbers and the reason why I really like to plant these right now in the late summer is because they're are more compact quicker growing variety and these are in my late summer garden seed collection which I've packaged together to make it really easy for you there's seven varieties in here of quick growing vegetables and they're on sale right now at my website 15% off with the code August so pick them up and you can get your garden planted so we're just gonna pop these out here and I am gonna add some her mysterio worm castings to the soil you do want to make sure you're amending your soil because if you've been growing in it all summer it definitely needs some more nutrients so you can see here I have three little seedlings in my little seed cell here but don't worry about it you can grow cucumbers really closely together but I'm just gonna put them in here plant them right at the base of my trellis and they're gonna grow right up over the trellis and be absolutely beautiful now I'm really loving the look of this trellis so far I mean this literally took me about five minutes to install and it only cost me about $7 so it's really quick and inexpensive so besides planting a couple of transplants there you can also plant cucumbers from seed which I'm gonna do here on the other side so that when this batch over here is dying out I'll have some plants at different stages of harvest so they'll be ready for the picking then so I'm gonna pour a few seeds into my hand here maybe about three seeds and just poke them right into the soil and cucumbers are so fast-growing as long as it's still warm weather where you live they're gonna sprout within a week or so and start growing there's nothing more delicious in this summer than a fresh cucumber now because I want these plants to go really fast I do want to feed them with a good water water soluble fertilizer right off the bat so I get going really fast so I put a couple of pumps of the good dirt plant food now I've tried this in my garden for several years it is really gonna get these plants off to a great start it has a 10 in nitrogen so it'll give them some nice good leafy growth and then I'm also adding some of the vermis Terra worm tea to my watering can here and that just adds all the good beneficial bacteria keep your plants nice and healthy so I water my cucumber transplant with it here and it is gonna be amazing to watch these plants grow you guys can do this too get out there and get some of these planted it's so so easy and you'll love having the harvest later in the summer now the next vegetable that we're gonna plant is beans now beans are one of those vegetables that you can plant and grow all summer long because they grow so fast so if you don't have any space in your garden beds definitely plant some in a container these were planted about 10 days ago believe it or not look how fast they're already growing and you can pick one of these containers on my website but I also want you to look for some holes in your garden bed so right here I have a little space that's empty that's a perfect spot to tuck some bean seeds so again I'm just going to add some of the worm castings to the soil to amend the soil I'm gonna plant right here along this drip irrigation hose and you will be amazed at how quickly these beans grow it's so much fun to see them pop through the soil within just a matter of a week or so and these are the Blue Lake Bush beans from the late summer garden seed collection a really tasty green bean so we're just gonna plant the seeds maybe an inch or so apart cover them with soil and we're good to go now the third quick growing vegetable that I'm gonna plant is squash now you can plant any variety of squash that you like I'm gonna plant some of the crookneck squash from the late summer garden seed collection and I'm just gonna get it out of the container here by loosening it up and you can see here I've got three or four different transplants growing and I'm actually only gonna plant one in this particular spot and I'll look for another little hole in my garden to plant some more and squash is another vegetable that you can also plant seeds directly in your garden it grows so fast and I'm telling you guys this is gonna be ready to harvest probably in another month or so and whoever stops by he'll be sharing your squash with I'm going to gently separate the seedlings there we go get it in here I already added worm castings to the soil let's pop it right down here in this hole and squash likes full Sun so the spot gets a lot of nice full Sun during the day squash does like a good little bit of space so this squash will spill over this garden bed and look really pretty but if you want to save space when you grow squash I'll show you right here I have a zucchini plant that's actually growing in a tomato cage so you can see here I've been weaving these leaves in throughout this tomato cage to help save space the plant grows up and doesn't sprawl over the garden bed now the fifth vegetable it's actually an herb that I'm going to plant today is basil basil is such an easy herb to grow so if you don't grow any other warm weather herb grow basil so here I have some little seedlings again started about three weeks ago I'm gonna pop some here in this container and we're also gonna pop them in a little hole that I have over here in the garden bed you can also plant seeds directly in your container or in your garden bed and it doesn't really matter if you plant basil and clumps like this it does just fine it's very quick and simple to pop into a container and it grows very very fast you can see the leaves are already developing really nicely and these will be ready to harvest probably in about three to four weeks we'll have a nice little container of basil right outside the kitchen door so now I'm gonna tuck some basil in this little hole in my garden bed so just look for holes in your garden you don't need a lot of space just little spots where you don't have anything growing so I'm gonna plant some in here next to this larger basil plant which will start to die off and then I'll have some new little seedlings to take its place so the worm castings loosen the soil just gonna pop in the seedlings you could also plant basil seeds right here and that way you'll have them coming up very soon to be ready to harvest in about six to eight weeks now the six vegetable I'm gonna plant today is chard chard is a super quick growing heat-loving vegetable so it's perfect to plant now in the late summer and again I've got a little hole here in my garden bed so I'm just gonna tuck him in right back here sprinkle in some worm castings and chard you can easily plant from seed as well actually let me move the leaves back just a little bit so I can plant directly in the soil so you can start from seed or I'm going to plant these little transplants here I'm gonna plant the red chard today these are little transplants and you can see how the stems are absolutely gorgeous so if you've never grown chard before you have to grow it it's delicious green not only is it heat tolerant it's it's really cold tolerant too so this chart will last you in the winter time as long as it's established before the frost hits now chard is a super super hardy plant and you can even once it gets larger you can cut it off at the stem here it will regrow so what is definitely a must-have plant for your garden well these are looking just a little bit wilted with a little bit of water and some sunshine they'll perk right up now a little bonus plan that I'm gonna pop in here that's also in my late summer garden seed collection is the Thumbelina zinnia it's because we don't want to forget about the pollinators keep on planting those flowers to bring the pollinators into your late summer and fall garden so these are small little variety of zinnias and again we're just gonna tuck them in this little hole here zinnias are so so beautiful they're brilliant colors the bees and the pollinators love them and you are gonna be so happy to see these beautiful bright colors growing in your garden and you can also plant zinnia seeds directly in your garden beds too well there you have it six quick growing crops and a flower too for the pollinators that you can plant now so that you have harvests in the late summer and into the fall well grab yourself a late summer garden seed collection 15% off with the code August through Monday August 5th comment below let me know if you wanna be planting any of these vegetables in your garden look forward to hearing from you thanks so much for watching we'll see in the next video

Channel: CaliKim29 Garden & Home DIY

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Length: 12min 13sec (733 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 03 2019