Gardening in July
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.
That link was very helpful. I definitely need to cut back some of my leggy plants that look exhausted!
I have always wanted an olive tree in my garden, since I was a little girl. But now that I live in the north I don’t think it is possible! My tomatoes are soon flowering, I’m so happy! I have no idea if you can plant yours in the ground, but why not?
I loved planting beans around out homemade bean teepees. Have fun!
The chipmunks here this year have taken all the blueberries long before they were even ripe, and I fear the tomatoes will be under siege, too, before long. I understand your homicidal feelings (the gun part, tee hee) but so far I have resisted (and sent the cat out after them in the evenings).
Battling possums here… though those ringtails are cute. They’ve eaten all the olives and the herbs, and are now sinking teeth into the succulents.
Good luck, green thumb.