July - Jobs for this month.....

 

General

Make sure that you water in the cool of the morning or evening.

Install guttering and a water butt on your shed, greenhouse or polytunnel. Harvesting FREE rainwater is now essential for DAGA members.

Look out for aphids, cabbage white butterfly caterpillars and pea moths.

Watch out both tomato and potato blight.

 

Vegetables

Start sowing the seeds of the overwintering crops of kales, spring cabbage, radicchio, chicory, spinach  and beet. 

Lift early potatoes and carry on earthing up.

Continue lifting rhubarb till the end of the month.

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Fruit

Start to pick plums, early pears and apples. 

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