Jobs for July

If you haven’t done so already, plant out or sow runner beans, French beans and courgettes
Plant out Early Purple Sprouting Broccoli for a crop next spring
Keep feeding tomatoes weekly, pinch out side shoots on cordon varieties
Snap off onion and garlic scape (flower spikes) as they appear
Keep the hoe and watering can busy!
If you have the space, keep sowing beetroot, kohl rabi, radish, spring onions, lettuce, peas and carrots
Keep picking soft fruits such as strawberries, currants, raspberries, hybrid berries and gooseberries
Pinch out the growing tips of broad beans once the pods start to form to discourage black fly
Begin harvesting main crop potatoes
Cut sweet pea flowers to bring indoors, remove seed pods to encourage more flowers
Tie in Runner Beans and sunflowers as they grow
Ventilate the greenhouse
Transplant or ‘dib in’ leek seedlings once they’re the width of a pencil
Begin harvesting garlic and onions if ready, lay garlic bulbs out to dry on racks in a well ventilated greenhouse or shed, lay onions on the ground in the sun (or the greenhouse if the weather is bad)
Prevent heads of white cauliflowers turning yellow in the sun by pulling the nearest large leaves over and snapping into place
Begin propagating strawberries using runners
Harvest crops when ready and enjoy!

Let’s just pretend the weather is how is should be for July and that we can actually get on with most of the jobs on this list !!!

by The Garden Smallholder on July 20, 2012 • Permalink

Posted by The Garden Smallholder on July 20, 2012

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gingerskeeper
/ July 20, 2012

Thanks for the list!
Val
/ July 20, 2012

Snapped loads of scapes off my garlic the other day. They were well advanced and I didn’t even notice them! I must try harder.
Andy in Germany
/ July 20, 2012

These posts are really useful for wannabe gardeners like me, especially as we’re a couple of months behind in south Germany, so I have a bit of time to get myself moving.

Unfortunately my jobs list is now dominated by “cut up and remove the 20 metre pear tree that came down in the storm last week” But hey, I now know what else I need to do…
victoriawildman
/ July 20, 2012

Your list is prescient I was just about to make one for this weekend.
Karen
/ July 20, 2012

I hope you used them in a stir fry, Val?

:)
Flighty
/ July 21, 2012

Love the sunflower! At least the weather is now allowing us to get on the things again. xx