Squash and cuke - touch and go. You may get some if frost holds off until October.

Broccoli, Cauliflower, Brussels - Plants, now is the hour. Probably too late to start from seed.
Lettuce- anytime in August.
Beans - ASAP, ditto for peas.
SVB does back off as cooler weather approaches. Can be controlled by using row covers or insecticdes.

thanks farmerdilla! I appreciate your input. I will get those started ASAP!
Do you suggest a raised bed or non-raised for fall? I am digging out the sod today, hope to plant tomorrow, so I need advice quickly!

Thanks again,
A.Ling

Whichever suits your fancy. I am a field planter have little experience with raised beds. If you have good soil and can amend it as necessary in ground planting works well and requires much less labor.

Thanks, I think I will see how far I get tomorrow and it I want to deal with constructing the raised beds in 102 degree heat!

Ditto to all of farmerdilla's advice.

Constructing raised beds will delay the important part, getting the seeds in the ground. It also adds expense, unnecessary expense in my opinion, especially if you purchase dirt to fill the beds. DARFC

Jim

I've got raised beds that I "filled" the first year with the potting mix from the year before, when everything was in containers, tilled in. Now I amend every year, or throughout the year, with compost from my small compost tumbler, as well as any extra potting mix left over from the window boxes and hanging flower baskets. So I haven't found my raised beds to be much of an expense. Without them I'd be trying to grow in pretty much pure sand, which is GREAT for drainage but not much else!

Ditto mgpaquin on raised beds. This is my third year of raised beds and I have never had this much success when I was in ground where clay is a problem. With the raised beds, labor is less, very few weeds, and outside of the first year when I made my own mix of peat moss, compost, and vermiculite, every year thereafter has been inexpensive. All I do is add compost from my own compost pit. I also add leftover potting mix from pots and baskets.

The soil in my area is just rocks, sand and more rocks so I'm very happy with my raised beds and purchased soil. The first year I tried growing veggies in the ground and had success but the soil prep was so time consuming and expensive. I rented a gas powered tiller and ruined the blades on the rocks! Every time I planted I had to heavily amend the soil and remove more rocks. Somehow they work their way up.

I've also had virtually no weeds or pests in the raised beds.

I wanted to add that many municipalities offer free compost. We live outside of Philadelphia, PA and we decided to do raised beds this year due to the awful clay...errr dirt...in our backyard. we built three raised beds - 1 16x4, and 2 8x4. We filled our beds with free compost offered at the recycle center within Fairmount Park. It ended up being 5 trips (10 miles each way) with 5 recycle containers each time in our Chevy Equinox (we don't own a pickup truck or this would have been ONE trip). Took us one day, lots of exercise, but my beds were filled for free, and my veggies have NEVER LOOKED BETTER! Also, I have lots of worms squirming around in the beds already, so they must have really liked the compost. I have added no chemicals, just the barrels of free compost, some UCGs from Starbucks, and veggie cuttings from my kitchen.

Go into the "search" section on this site and search "free compost"...there is a list posted somewhere that lists all the locations for free compost. If there is one close enough to you, I would suggest using it.

Pam
Havertown, PA

pam225, my husband and I did same thing you did.
We made trip to Fairmount Park to get compost several years back and put in my vegetable garden.
Do you think it is perfectly safe to use compost from Fairmount Park to raise vegetables?
I am just wondering.