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Gardening Tips for July
July Gardening Tips
July is a joy as you start to pick all those wonderful fresh fruits and vegetables. However, the vegetable patch or allotment is still very demanding, and watering and weeding are key.
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It is now time to lift garlic; hang the bulbs out in the sun or in an airy shed. Onions also need drying well before they are stored.
Although it is getting late for sowing and planting, there are still a few crops that can be planted:
• Lettuce, rocket and a variety of salad leaves –succession sow for an ongoing supply in the autumn. • Fast-growing varieties of peas, beetroot and carrots. • Florence fennel. • Plant out your leeks. Just dib a hole about 150mm, six inches deep and drop the leek into the hole. Water it in and the job’s done. You do not need to fi ll the holes with soil; enough will wash in with watering and rain. The reason you plant in a hole is to blanch the stem. Plant out cabbage, caulifl owers, Brussels, broccoli and kale for autumn and winter cropping, using the space created by lifting onions, garlic and early potatoes.
Other jobs to do in the vegetable patch:
• When climbing beans have reached the top of the canes, pinch out the growing tip. • Strawberries will fi nish fruiting so tidy up old foliage and cut off runners or use them to produce new plants. • Earth up brassicas to give them a fi rm hold in the soil and give them a top-dressing of nitrogenous fertilizer or an organic liquid feed.
Enjoy the fruits of your labour!
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