I’ll be too busy to do much gardening in June, then out of the country until mid-July. After that, I’ll have enough time to garden. What kind of veggies can I plant that late in the season?
Once you’re past the real heat of summer, you can plant spinach and lettuce and chard. My favorite method for growing lettuce (B.G. – Before Groundhogs) was “cut and come again.” Buy a mesclun mix (or just buy different packets of lettuce and mix them together), broadcast the seed, and when the leaves are a few inches tall, harvest with scissors. The plants will keep growing new leaves until they bolt or the frost gets them. When you want salad, head to your garden with scissors and a colander.
Spinach doesn’t germinate well in hot soil. I have a friend who germinated his spinach seeds in the fridge, on layers of damp paper towels on a cookie sheet.
You probably can get in a crop of radishes, too, and maybe some peas.