Hopefully summer is now in full swing, so bedding plants should now be in position and tucked up with a little peat and fertilizer.
Herbaceous plants are growing fast and should be encouraged by light feeding.
If slugs are troublesome, a metaldehyde bait should be put down.
Rock plants, saxifrages, aubrietas, and sedums, can be divided.
Cuttings of pinks should be inserted in sandy soil.
Weedkillers should be used on paths when the weather is settled.
Iris fans should make a point of visiting specialist nurseries and growers for ordering now; mid-July is the best time for iris planting.
Shrubs and roses brought into the house for early flowering should now go back to the garden.
The Indian azalea should be found a place in the semi-shade, and given an occasional evening syringe with water.
Any shrubs grown from seed should be hardened off and plunged rim-deep in a bed of ashes or a slightly shaded part of the garden.
Roses for local shows should be disbudded and fed with dry blood.
Look out for the damasks, brought to Europe by the Crusaders for attar scent, the moss roses with their green and wine-red trimmings and the beloved gallicas, because these distinguished groups flower only this month and next.
Meanwhile, this is the time for the gardener to visit rose nurseries and gardens to make his list for ordering in the autumn.
Evergreen hedges may be trimmed, but berberis should be given time to flower before using the shears.
If the soil is dry in the vegetable garden, all seed drills should be watered before sowing.
Sow dwarf beans, successional sowings of lettuce and crops and a last sowing of peas.
Pinch out the tip of broad beans.
The young growing tip is the favourite meeting place of the blackfly.
Plant winter greens firmly and bring the roots in contact the soil; the plant left dangling over an air-pocket is quick to wither.
Plant out the brussels sprouts and dust them against root fly.
Protect cucumbers from strong sunshine.
Start feeding the tomatoes regularly once the bottom truss of fruit has set! A few leaves, but not too many, may be removed to let in the sunshine and hasten ripening.
Tomatoes in pots should be mulched and stopped above the fourth truss by pinching out the tip of the stem.
Plant celery; water generously and occasionally give weathered soot and water.
Earth up the potatoes throughout the month, and go on blanching the leeks.
Herbaceous plants are growing fast and should be encouraged by light feeding.
If slugs are troublesome, a metaldehyde bait should be put down.
Rock plants, saxifrages, aubrietas, and sedums, can be divided.
Cuttings of pinks should be inserted in sandy soil.
Weedkillers should be used on paths when the weather is settled.
Iris fans should make a point of visiting specialist nurseries and growers for ordering now; mid-July is the best time for iris planting.
Shrubs and roses brought into the house for early flowering should now go back to the garden.
The Indian azalea should be found a place in the semi-shade, and given an occasional evening syringe with water.
Any shrubs grown from seed should be hardened off and plunged rim-deep in a bed of ashes or a slightly shaded part of the garden.
Roses for local shows should be disbudded and fed with dry blood.
Look out for the damasks, brought to Europe by the Crusaders for attar scent, the moss roses with their green and wine-red trimmings and the beloved gallicas, because these distinguished groups flower only this month and next.
Meanwhile, this is the time for the gardener to visit rose nurseries and gardens to make his list for ordering in the autumn.
Evergreen hedges may be trimmed, but berberis should be given time to flower before using the shears.
If the soil is dry in the vegetable garden, all seed drills should be watered before sowing.
Sow dwarf beans, successional sowings of lettuce and crops and a last sowing of peas.
Pinch out the tip of broad beans.
The young growing tip is the favourite meeting place of the blackfly.
Plant winter greens firmly and bring the roots in contact the soil; the plant left dangling over an air-pocket is quick to wither.
Plant out the brussels sprouts and dust them against root fly.
Protect cucumbers from strong sunshine.
Start feeding the tomatoes regularly once the bottom truss of fruit has set! A few leaves, but not too many, may be removed to let in the sunshine and hasten ripening.
Tomatoes in pots should be mulched and stopped above the fourth truss by pinching out the tip of the stem.
Plant celery; water generously and occasionally give weathered soot and water.
Earth up the potatoes throughout the month, and go on blanching the leeks.
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