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Vegetable Seeds to Sow in July

Posted on 06. Jul, 2009 by Tracey in How to Grow Veg

July is the middle of the vegetable growing year and the month for harvesting lettuce, radish, early carrots, new potatoes, mange tout, peas, dwarf french, climbing and runner beans and more. Remember to keep watering your vegetables as July is one of the hottest months. There’s still lots of vegetable seeds to sow in the month of July for harvesting in the autumn or spring. So get sowing!

Row of Pak Choi

1. Pak Choi

Pak Choi is a striking crisp Chinese vegetable with a bright white vein running through green leaves and down into the stalk. It is a fast growing crop and can be used in salads, stirfries or can be steamed. Pak Choi doesn’t require a lot of water as its roots are fairly shallow.

Sow Seeds: July and August
Harvest: September to December

Pak Choi Tip: Pick off any brown or yellow leaves as they appear at the bottom of the plant as these may give shelter and food to slugs and snails.

Varieties to Choose from:

• China Choi,
• Canton Dwarf,
• Chinese Pak Choi – Eden Project Range.

Marie Peer Xmas Potatoes

2. Christmas New Potatoes

I know you don’t want to be thinking of Christmas quite yet, but if you want new potatoes to harvest from October to December its time to act now. Online vegetable seed shops will be taking orders from 1st July onwards for delivery mid July. Tubers can be planted out in large pots or containers with drainage holes at the end of July to mid August.

iGrowVeg Guide: Growing Potatoes in Pots

Where do I buy from? Try Mr Fothergills, Suttons Seeds, Dobies or your local garden centre.

Plant Tubers: End of July to August
Harvest: October to December
No of weeks until harvest: 10 to 13 weeks

Varieties include:

• Most Popular for Taste: Charlotte
• Carlingford,
• Maris Peer,
• Nicola,
• Bambino,
• Pixie,
• Vales Emerald.

Spring Hero Cabbage

3. Spring Cabbage

Sow: July to August.
Harvest: April to May the following year.
No of Weeks until Harvest: 36 Weeks

Tip 1: Sow seeds in modules or pots or sow directly into the ground.
Tip 2: Cover the cabbages with a fine mesh netting to prevent root fly, aphids, caterpillars and whitefly pests.

Spring Cabbage Varieties to choose from:

• Spring Hero – ballhead variety
• Wintergreen – spring greens variety.
• Pixie – small headed & spring greens variety
• Advantage F1 – fast growing for spring greens – Recommended by iGrowVeg
• Offenham 2 – spring greens.

iGrowVeg How To Guide: Growing Cabbages

Winter Radish

4. Winter Radish

Winter Radish or Mooli, Mouli, Daikon or Chinese Radish as they are sometimes known are long white roots vegetables with a mild flavour. These type of radishes are often more milder than the smaller summer radishes. Winter radishes are very hardy and can be lifted and stored like other root vegetables.

Sow: Late June, July and August
Harvest: September to December

Varieties include:

• April Cross F1
• Minowase

iGrowVeg How to Guide: Growing Radishes

Kohl Rabi

5. Kohl Rabi

Kohl Rabi is a German cabbage turnip and is said to taste like broccoli, cabbage and turnip. It is very easy to grow anywhere and the swollen stem grows above the ground. It is a fast growing vegetable and can be grown in gaps left by other harvested vegetables.

Sow: April, May, June and July.
Harvest: 10 – 12 weeks.
Harvest Size: The size of a golf ball to a tennis ball size.

Growing Tips: They can be started off in modules in the greenhouse before planting out or sowed directly into the ground.

Kohl Rabi Varieties to Choose from:
White – Lanro (Sutton Seeds), Noriko, Olivia F1 and Superschmelz (Organic Catalogue).

Purple – Purple Danube F1 (Sutton Seeds), Azur Star (Organic Catalogue), Kolbri and Modrava F1 (Mr Fothergills).

For more facts and top tips on Khol Rabi, please see my newsletter: iGrowVeg.com June/July Issue 2

Chicory 12.01.08

6. Chicory
Chicory has a bitter taste and is mainly grown in winter for salad leaves. It has to be blanched to take away its bitterness. There are a few types of chicory: sugar loaf, radicchio (red) and whitloof forcing chicory. Chicory is high in Vitamin A and potassium.

What month do I sow?:

• Witloof varieties – Sow: June and July. Harvest: October.
• Sugar Loaf and Radicchio varieties – Sow: June and August. Harvest: Sept – November.

Number of Weeks to Harvest: 13 Weeks

Varieties to choose from:

• Witloof types – Witloof Zoom F1
• Sugar Loaf types – Sugar Loaf
• Radicchio Types – Rossa di Treviso

iGrowVeg How To Guide: Growing Chicory

Last Chance to Sow the following Seeds this year:

• Dwarf French, Climbing and Runner Beans,
• Mange Tout,
• Carrots – Maincrop varieties like Autumn King, Flankee.
• Spinach and Perpetual Spinach
• Beetroot
• Florence Fennel
• Kohl Rabi
• Calabrese
• Endive

Other Posts in this Series:

• Vegetables To Sow Indoors In February and March
• Vegetables To Sow Outdoors in February and March
• Vegetables To Sow in April
• Vegetable Seeds to Sow in May
• Vegetable Seeds to Sow in June
• Vegetable Seeds to Sow in July
• Vegetable Seeds to Sow in August
• Vegetable Seeds to Sow in September
• Vegetable Seeds to Sow in October
• Vegetable Seeds & Sets to Plant in November