What to plant now: early to mid July

Seeds you can plant directly in the ground

• Beans (pole and bush)
• Beets
• Broccoli raab (might be better to plant this towards mid July)
• Carrot 
• Chard
• Corn (a quick-growing variety)
• Cucumber (early to mid July is actually the best time to plant cucumbers to avoid most pests)
• lettuce (sow 10 seeds a week)
• Summer Squash (Also a good time to plant this to avoid pests)
• Turnip
• Flower seeds like nasturtium, zinnia, sunflower, calendula, bachelor's button. I like to pull out weeds and stick flower seeds in their spots. The roots essentially tilled the hard soil for me!

Indoors in cell trays-Preparing for fall planting. Most seedlings for fall planting get seeded in late May to mid June and are transplanted around now, but faster-growing things can be seeded now. 

• Quick-growing cauliflower or broccoli
• Chard
• Collards
• Kale
• Tatsoi
• Turnips for greens

Vegetables you can transplant if you have seedlings

• Basil
• Broccoli
• Cabbage
• Cauliflower
• Chard
• Collards
• Endive/radicchio
• Fennel
• Kale
• Kohlrabi

A note on where to get these things: Natureworks still has seeds, and always keeps a good stock of what can currently be planted. Seed catologs are also still mailing seeds to order. Natureworks is the only garden center I know of that gets fall vegetable seedlings, usually starting early/mid August into September, and they have a good variety. Seedlings for most fall crops are started in mid May-mid June, so you can get a jump on planning for next year.