GARDENING Jobs for July
Vegetables • Sow spring cabbage, turnips, oriental vegetables, chicory, fennel, and autumn/winter salads. You probably found these bolted if sown to early. Carrots can still be sown. • last chance to sow French beans and runner beans (sheltered spots.) • Plant out leeks and brassicas for a winter supply, should be available from good garden centres.. • Ensure all vegetables get a regular, consistent supply of water. This will aid healthy development, and help to avoid diseases, disorders and bolting. Water either in the early morning or in the cool of the evening but never in the heat of the day. • continue to hoe off weeds in dry weather. done in wet weather, the weeds are liable to re-root. • don’t forget to stop cordon tomatoes by removing the main shoot. Look for the leaf that’s above the fourth truss
(set of developing fruit) and cut it off here. This should ensure that all the fruits ripen by the end of the season. Bush tomatoes can be left to their own devices. • climbing beans may also need stopping, to maximise cropping on existing side shoots. Stop them when they reach the tops of their supports. • beans need sufficient watering to help the seedpods set. A good mulch of compost over three or four sheets of newspaper will help conserve water. (Broadsheet or tabloid!) • check climbing vegetables are securely tied to supports. Fruit • continue training fan-trained trees. • if necessary prune cherries straight after harvest. • complete summer pruning of gooseberries and red/ white currants. • remove the lower side shoots of indoor melons up to a height of 30cm (12in).
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