Gardening Tips for July
Hopefully by now temperatures have risen and gardens are looking very colourful.
This means lots of watering and feeding to keep displays looking good. Don’t forget to water either early morning or in the evening, otherwise plants can get scorched and the water evaporates quickly. If baskets
or pots and tubs dry out, the best method to revive them is to stand them in a bucket of water overnight. If you have plants showing signs of mildew (this often happens to roses and honeysuckle) this is caused by lack of moisture, so make sure they are watered regularly. By feeding with a tomato fertiliser you will encourage more fl owers. Also keep deadheading. If clematis plants suddenly collapse and look dead this is probably due to clematis wilt. They will probably recover next year, but it may be due to them being planted too shallowly so try to replant them a bit deeper.
Early fl owering shrubs such as philadelphus and weigela will have fi nished by now and can be pruned. Cut back to a fresh shoot and keep a good shape, always feed after pruning.
If you grow bearded iris, now is the time to split them. You may fi nd the centre has died off, so discard this and replant pieces making sure that the rhizome is on the surface of the soil and will be in full sun. Some of the early perennials, if cut back now, will produce a fresh display later in the season.
Soft fruit starts to ripen now and will require netting if you don’t want to lose a lot to the birds. If fruit trees
begin to sag under the weight of a good crop then it may be necessary to prop them up to prevent branches snapping.
Tomatoes will be starting to ripen. Keep pinching out side shoots and feed regularly. When they have grown tall, remove the growing tip to encourage the fruit to ripen. If the weather becomes humid
they can suffer from tomato blight, which shows as brown patches on the stems and spreads rapidly. It can also appear on potatoes as they are the same family. Remove the plants at the fi rst sign of trouble. It happens more on tomatoes grown outside as the spores travel in the air.
It is possible to do a late sowing of carrots and beans to give you a late crop. Beans need plenty of water to encourage the pods to set.
If you have a pond in your garden keep the water levels topped up with rain water if it is very hot. Blanket weed or duck weed can spread very quickly and needs to be removed. Duck weed can be netted, but blanket weed is more diffi cult. There are treatments that can be added to the water but any little bit left in the pond grows back. Use a cane and twist it among the weed to pull it out. Leave it on the side so that any insects can fi nd their way back in.
Enjoy your garden this summer and try to visit others to get new ideas.
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