what are the best vegetables and plants to grow during the summer?
Posted on Mar 02, 2010 under Best Vegetables | 6 Comments
The best plants are the ones that you like. Don’t bother growing zucchini, for example, if you don’t like to eat it, because you will probably get more than you know what to do with. During the summer, you can grow tomatoes, corn, bell and hot peppers, beans, squashes of all sorts, melons, carrots, beets, cucumbers, pumpkins, and lots of herbs – chives, basil, dill, rosemary, cilantro, etc. In most places in the US, it gets too hot during the summer to grow greens such as lettuce, or cool weather crops like peas. Broccoli and cauliflower also prefer cooler temperatures.
As far as other summer-loving plants, there are lots of different kinds of sunflowers, which grow quickly. Some make great colorful bouquets, others have big seed heads that people and birds both like to eat. There are lots of other quick growing annual flowers (meaning the plant lives its entire life cycle in one year and won’t live over the winter) that are great in bouquets – zinnias, marigolds, cosmos, cornflowers, dahlias (which may come back if you live in a warmer climate, or you can save the roots and replant next spring)…. The list goes on and on.
March 3rd, 2010 at 3:15 am
Bell peppers are good to grow in the late summer.
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March 3rd, 2010 at 3:53 am
potato, okra, carrots squash
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March 3rd, 2010 at 4:24 am
tomatoes cucumbers.
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March 3rd, 2010 at 4:54 am
tomatoes, corn, okra, squash, eggplant, swiss chard, lettuce, onions, garlic, herbs, peppers, artichokes,
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have a summer garden
March 3rd, 2010 at 5:36 am
It depends on your zone – I live in Utah (zone 6) and am growing beets, swiss chard, cucumber, okra, carrots, radishes (which will need to be shaded), basil, tomatoes, peppers, and squash in my square foot garden. Am also growing sunflowers, butterfly/hummingbird seed mixture (loves summer), roses, and pumpkins. I went to the local university extension website to get the best varieties to grow in my zone – makes a big difference.
~plantgirl of http://squarefootgardenblog.com
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March 3rd, 2010 at 5:45 am
The best plants are the ones that you like. Don’t bother growing zucchini, for example, if you don’t like to eat it, because you will probably get more than you know what to do with. During the summer, you can grow tomatoes, corn, bell and hot peppers, beans, squashes of all sorts, melons, carrots, beets, cucumbers, pumpkins, and lots of herbs – chives, basil, dill, rosemary, cilantro, etc. In most places in the US, it gets too hot during the summer to grow greens such as lettuce, or cool weather crops like peas. Broccoli and cauliflower also prefer cooler temperatures.
As far as other summer-loving plants, there are lots of different kinds of sunflowers, which grow quickly. Some make great colorful bouquets, others have big seed heads that people and birds both like to eat. There are lots of other quick growing annual flowers (meaning the plant lives its entire life cycle in one year and won’t live over the winter) that are great in bouquets – zinnias, marigolds, cosmos, cornflowers, dahlias (which may come back if you live in a warmer climate, or you can save the roots and replant next spring)…. The list goes on and on.
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Decades of personal gardening experience