July In The Garden

Cool weather and days starting to lengthen, but those westerly wind will be starting soon. Best month to get big jobs finished and set up for spring. Bonus is the movement warms the body up, so you dont feel as chilled to the bone. So what do we have on the to do list for July...

Garden jobs for July

Complete heavy construction jobs, like paving, pergolas, raised beds, Chicken coops and fencing

Finalise tree planting, garden beds and selecting companion plants

Prune deciduous fruit trees early in the month prune any citrus that have finished fruiting

Plant out the seeds planted in April/May

Take any hardwood cuttings (time to take rosemary cuttings, spout in damp inoculated soil)

Apply any foliar amendments needed for tree heath, and add extra carbon materials onto garden beds

Inspect citrus trees for gall wasp and small green bronze shield bugs.

Plant grape vines.

Plant potatoes, sweet potatoes and Spring Shallots in the garden

Strike mulberry cutting

Soil health check, add compost as needed, and other needed amendments like rock minerals or microbial inoculant

Flowers to plant

Seeds

• Ageratum

• Alyssum

• Aster

• Candytuft

• Cineraria

• Cosmos

• Dianthus

• Impatiens

• Lupin

• Petunia

• Phlox

• Portulaca

• Salvia

• Verbena

Seedlings

• Ageratum

• Alyssum

• Dianthus

• Lupin

• Pansy

• Petunia

• Polyanthus

• Portulaca

• Saliva

• Stock

• Sunflower

• Verbena

• Viola

• Viscaria

Vegetables to plant

Seeds

• Beans

• Beetroot

• Broccoli

• Cabbage

• Capsicum

• Carrot

• Cucumber

• Lettuce

• Marrow

• Melon (start indoors)

• Onion

• Pea

• Pumpkin

• Radish

• Silver beet

• Spinach

• Sweetcorn (start indoors)

• Tomato

• Zucchini

Seedlings

• Broccoli

• Cabbage

• Leek

• Onion

• Silver beet

• Spinach

• Tomato

When planting seeds, follow planting instructions for the variety, if you have microbial inoculant, sprinkle some over where you are planting the seeds or sprinkle over seeds when you are planting. Once seedling emerge and develop their first true leaves, a dose of home made compost or seaweed/fish emulsion will help kick them into productivity as the weather warms up. Also plenty of sunshine.