I won’t lie. The garden is still a mess. But there are some small things I would like to get done despite feeling a bit like a failure every time I go out there… This post (although it’s written for Northern America, it’s the same hemisphere, isn’t it?) about garden duties in July is good and informative. Here’s my own list for this month, partly inspired by that post:
- take cuttings from my roses for propagation
- buy a squash plant and get it in the ground as soon as possible
- buy an olive tree for my large pot (to replace the lavender tree which died in winter)
- sow beans
- clear beds for above (which I should have doen several months ago, oh dear)
- repot tomato plants (or directly into the ground?)
Also – a bit of a berry crisis as the birds have eaten almost everything apart from my red gooseberries (and I promise I’ll get a shotgun if they get at those too). On the positive side, there are now 5 baby chillies on my plant. They smell amazing.



