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Jobs for the Month: July
July in the Kitchen Garden
was all about...
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Tomatoes
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feeding,
watering,
tying in, planting out with or without
protection and sideshooting.
Whilst sideshooting
why not grab yourself some plants for free!
Carefully remove sideshoots and place in water for a few days do
not let them dry out.Once roots have formed at base pot on as
normal, keeping well watered.They will grow and fruit really
quickly (faster than sowing seeds).
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Strawberries - feeding, mulching
with straw and regular harvests. Cutting out any mould /dead
foliage. Setting 'runners', if wanted, and cutting off surplus
ones.
Watering regularly and treating to
Garlic and
Seaweed sprays.
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Raspberries -Remove those
rampant unwanted offshoots cutting them off beneath the soil.
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Sowing -Winter
Carrots, Salads, Cauliflower, Broccoli, Beetroot, Kale, Basil,
Florence fennel, Peas and if I get time Broccoli 'Micro Greens' for
salads.
Transplanting - Beans to obelisks (using Copper Tape to keep off slugs), Squash (cloched at first with
slug protection.They always get a few so sow spares!)
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Sweet Peas
- Need regular cutting, feeding tying in and tendril removal, if
possible.
Peas and Broad Beans - Regular harvesting and
watering - (I mulched mine) and
also pinched out the tips of the beans to concentrate growth at the
pods.
Don't forget Pea shoots and bean flowers are really tasty!!
Dead Heading - All companion plants to
lengthen their show before I let them set seed
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DONT FORGET THE COMPOST
HEAP! - Add Browns to the Greens, turn if you have the
time and inclination, water and add an activator to speed up the
process.
Warm days mean a well cooked, happy, heap!
I'll update you more next month. Till then, happy
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