The
Dartmouth Gardener
Green Onions J
By Alex Webster
uly is often one of the hottest months of the year and a great time to sit out and enjoy the fruits of
your labour. Keep plants looking good by regularly deadheading and you’ll enjoy a longer display of blooms. Make sure you keep new plants well watered (using grey water where possible), hoe off weeds (which thrive in the sunshine) and give everything a good mulching. Also remember to record your successes and failures to remind you later in the year what was planted where, what needs to be removed and what needs bulking up. It looks as though this year could be a bumper year in the
orchards along the Dart. Last year gave a poor showing after a cold spring but this year’s mild winter and warmest spring for a decade and lots of sunshine should lead to a good crop of top fruit.
But of course there is work to be done first! This month,
protect heavily laden fruit tree and bush branches against snapping under the weight by using a stake or prop to keep them upright. If you have to tie the young branches up, make a small strop from material and use jute string. If necessary prune cherries and plums straight after harvest. On the allotment keep harvesting regularly to keep thing
such as sugar snap peas and broad beans producing more flowers. With things like beetroot and radish, thin out the rows giving more room to the remaining crop. If you are thinning carrots remember to do this in the cool of the evening when the carrot fly is less active. Always water after thinning root crops. Thin shallots by twisting and pulling individual bulbs. I used to supply Joyce Molyneux at the Carved Angel with these sweet little onions. Also main crop onions could be thinned and used green in the same way.
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