7 vegetables and herbs to plant in August for a quick harvest — and they're all easy to grow

Three pictures of vegetables - a collection of red runner beans on poles, a cluster of green spinach, and four dark pink radishes in soil.

Long summer days in the garden means more opportunities for growing and there are plenty of vegetables and herbs to plant this month that will give you quick results. Plant some of these rapid growers now and you'll soon be harvesting fresh crops before the weather starts to cool down in fall.

August is a wonderful time in the vegetable garden and there are still plenty of options for planting. This includes sowing seeds that you can harvest before fall, as well as maybe second plantings of crops that are already established in the garden but are probably peaking around now.