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A few ideas of what to do in the garden during July with Ken Crowther.
Ken says:
Summer offers opportunities for succession sowing in the vegetable patch and to keep the produce coming.
0:00 Ken says a lot of plants have grown vigorously during the summer
0:19 Be careful with hedge cutting at this time of year and look out for nesting birds
0:31 Ken shows the damage caused by a hedge cutter
0:54 When cutting laurel hedge use secateurs
1:35 Dead head roses
1:40 Ken says he’s wired the climbing rose to the fence and will tuck in long new growth
1:50 Circle the new rose shoots and then they’ll start to flower
2:43 Plums have been good as no late frosts
3:00 The cluster of apples is heavy and remove some of the smaller fruits to help produce bigger individual apples
4:07 Sow vegetables like radishes, carrots and lettuce every 2 weeks
4:20 French bean plants can be grown all the way into the autumn
4:43 Grow vegetables in containers with children
5:18 Roses watch for black spot 5:27 Make sure roses are being fed
5:46 Dead head plants like French marigold and African marigold
5:51 Dead head antirrhinum (snapdragons)
5:58 Geraniums make sure the stem is cut with an dead heading of old flowers
Ken gives some tips and advice on how to look after lawns and flowers in the garden at the height of summer.
0:00 If you have a few tufty bits growing on your lawn – use the mower without the box and drop cuttings directly onto the lawn = keeps moisture in the grass
0:40 Watering lawns, if this is something you want to do then do it at night to get the water into the roots
1:10 Watering the surface is a waste of time
1:38 A good month cut down long meadow areas and then leave the grass to lay for seed to fall from wild flowers
2:30 Tidy up lawns and don’t leave leaves on them
2:50 Dead head your roses to encourage new growth
3:09 Evergreen hedges like thuja and yew can be cut now
3:30 Watch if you have container plants, keep them well watered at the end of the day and early
It’s easy to understand that when all that is left to finish a large gardening project is to get the grass down the urge is to press ahead regardless.
But turf isn’t going to grow in hot weather unless it’s sufficiently watered. This recently turfed lawn may have to be relaid after it didn’t get watered over a hot weekend.
So save yourself some money and don’t make the same mistake – don’t turf your lawn in hot weather!
Ken tells us about how his vegetable patch is looking.
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