Vegetable Seeds to Sow in July

4th Jul 2024

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There’s still time to start growing veg this year!

Can’t decide what to grow? Let me give you a helping hand so you can sow the best seeds for July’s Summer Season.

The Summer Holidays are coming up as well so if you need to keep the kids entertained, get them involved, heck, get the whole family involved and by the end of August you’ll have a Salad Bowl of glorious vegetables that you have grown all by yourself!

Where to buy your Vegetable Seeds?

These days you can even pick up vegetable seeds from the supermarket. You can also buy seeds from your local Garden centres.

My favourite online Seed Companies are:

MoreVeg.co.uk – they are growers, they have very reliable seed that germinates, they also have a wide range of varieties in small quantities. Their prices are excellent. I use them every year.
Real seeds.co.uk – they grow a range of unique and rarer vegetable varieties at a great price. Germination rate is great too.

Speedy Veg Varieties to Sow in July

1. Lettuce

Remember Lettuce doesn’t germinate well in hot temperatures. July is a perfect time to start sowing in cooler temperatures before August arrives.

Lettuce Varieties that are great to start sowing in July are:

All the year round – a butterhead variety which can be sown every week for continuous lettuce.
Freckles – a cos type, like the name suggests it’s dappled green with red sprinkles. A great lettuce for summer as is bolt resistant.
Lollo Rossa – a loose leaf red variety, a crinkly lettuce leaf, great for adding to salads or sandwiches.
Lollo Biondi – a loose leaf bright green variety.

2. Radish

Sow seeds into the soil where you want them to pop up. Great for growing in pots.

French Breakfast – long oval shaped radishes, mild in taste.
Hailstone – a white milder radish variety .
Sparkler – a white and red round variety, very striking looking.

Radish Harvest in 4 Weeks

3. Kale

Kale comes in Dwarf and Tall Varieties. Make sure you net your plants during the summer as the cabbage white butterflies can lay their eggs on the leaves and caterpillars will hatch eating all your kale.

Dwarf Curled Green – is a small compact variety, with very tightly packed leaves, very good for stirfries.
Cavolo Nero – a medium size plant which grows long thin dark bubbled leaves of kale. It’s Italian and flavourful. One of my favourites.
Red Russian Curled – a curled leaf with frills, grows like loose leaf lettuce, great for baby leaves.

4. Spinach

Perpetual Spinach – this plant grows all year round, it gives an abundance of large spinach leaves.
Matador – a slow to bolt variety of large leaves, can be sown until October.
Helios F1 – a bolt resistant variety of spinach with oval leaves, sow until September.