Ask A Master Gardener: Vegetable gardening in July — succession planting and cover crops

I hope you are enjoying harvesting some of the vegetables that you have planted earlier this year — especially those radishes, beans, potatoes, beets and carrots. If so, remember that July is the time for doing succession planting.

To enjoy freshly harvested vegetables until the first frost, you can plant a few of each in a pattern that allows you to be harvesting them as they mature. For example, bush beans can be planted at 14- to 20-day intervals until the end of August. At each interval, plant only a few at a time. Then as one planting has finished producing, the next planting will be beginning to produce.