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Organic Gardening In July |
YOUR GARDEN IN JULY
More info from www.hdra.org.uk
þ Water your garden regularly and put enough water on. In hot weather a lot of the water will
not soak into the soil. The best time to water is in the late evening, but if
you have to water when it is sunny, keep the leaves of plants dry. Runner beans
need loads of water to make their flowers attractive (tasty nectar!) to the
bees. If the bees do not visit then there won’t be any beans.
þ A “mulch” of grass clippings around plants can keep water in the soil. Make sure
that you water before putting the grass clippings down. This mulch will also
feed the soil and stop weeds from growing.
þ Begin to sow autumn and winter salads
such as corn salad, purslane and rocket. These may be unusual, but they are very tasty and well
worth trying to grow. You will thank yourself for having done this when they
are growing over the cooler months of the year.
þ Carrots, beetroot, lettuce, peas and turnip
can all still be sown now for autumn harvesting.
þ Outdoor tomato plants should be stopped from getting too big because fruit will not
ripen. When they have four trusses of tomatoes on them, pinch out the top of
the plant one leaf behind the highest truss of flowers. Remove the side shoots which grow from where the
branches join the stem of the plant.
þ In 2004 there was a lot of potato blight, so look for it this
year. It cannot be cured, but if yellow-brown patches of blight which turn
leaves black do appear then cut off the top growth and burn it. The tubers can
still be harvested, but leave them in the soil for two weeks first.
þ Pears and apples should be thinned to only one to
every 10cm of branch. Remove any small, damaged or diseased fruits first. This
will allow the plant to grow large fruits.
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