July

Summer is in full flow (hopefully!)

This is often one of the hottest months of the year and a great time to sit out and enjoy your garden. Plants need to be kept looking good by regularly dead heading to enjoy a longer display of flowers.  Keep any new plants well watered and remember to hoe off the weeds which thrive in the sunshine.

• Water tubs and new plants if dry but be water-wise and use water butts where possible.
• Dead head bedding plants and repeat flowering perennials to ensure continuous flowering.
• Sweet peas need regular, cutting, feeding, tying in and removal of tendrils.
• Give the lawn a quick acting summer feed, especially if spring feed was not applied.
• Place conservatory plants outside now that it is warm.
• Keep an eye out for any pests and diseases in the garden and treat promptly.
• Clear algae, blanket weed and debris from ponds and keep them topped up.
• Continuing picking fast maturing vegetables such as Courgettes & Beans to encourage more crop.
• Strawberries – Protect from birds, feed, mulch with straw and regularly harvest.
• Order catalogues for next years spring-flowering bulbs.