Jobs In The July Garden
Make time to enjoy your garden in the long summer evenings!
- Prune wisteria now.
- Cut back faded perennial plants to keep borders tidy.
- Water early morning or at dusk to reduce evaporation.
- Deadhead Penstemon to encourage more flowering shoots.
- Pinch out side shoots from vine tomatoes and feed with a high potash food.
- Harvest Garlic.
- Prune Cherries and plums now, to avoid Silver Leaf disease.
- Check lilies regularly for bright red lily beetles – or their grubs. Remove and destroy.
- Roses should be deadheaded regularly – spray with a fungicide if rust and black spot are prevalent.
- Feed bedding plants with a tomato fertiliser and deadhead regularly to extend flowering.