is it too late to plant up some veggies?

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[Takver]

Not too late at all - millions of things you can still sow (ok, maybe an overstatement) - but at the least
carrots, beetroot, kale,
then all the things that are best sown after midsummer - esp the oriental veggies (mizuna, pak choi, mustard greens, komatsuna and others), also fennel is best sown after midsummer, also swedes,
winter radishes are good
ongoing sowings of salads of course, summer vars of lettuce now, moving on to winter vars come the autumn
Do you know the Joy Larckom book Grow Your Own Vegetables - it has lists in the back of what you can sow every month throughout the year.
BTW I think probably a bit late for purple sprouting, I would sow a kale like Red Russian, you can still eat the shoots in the spring as you would PSB

[Mercedes]

I;ve jusrt planted spinach,kohl rabi and small turnips - instructions on packet say you can plant in July if that's helpful. Oh and red cabbage.

[Takver]

Oh and chard/leaf beet of course

[lulu25]

second joy larkcombe

i have just planted chicory, oriental radishes (minowase) directly and cavolo nero into a tray for transplanting about august

and later i am going to try winter salads (oriental, plus land cress and corn salad) and early artichokes.

[lulu25]

oh yeah chard i would have said that but i am drowning in the stuff. not in a bad way.

think quick growing (leaves) not slow ripening (toms, sweetcorn etc)

[Takver]

BTW I wouldn't worry about the courgettes, beans & toms, give them a bit of a feed and a few weeks and they'll probably get their act together, often things take a while to get going at this time of year IME.
If you really don't think the beans are going to come to anything its not too late to sow dwarf french beans (depending on where you are though - probably not the case in the north)