What to do in your garden in July

Vegetables - Grow Your Own
Sing up friends to Keep on picking to harvest veg while you are on holiday. See our checklist for vegetables to sow now Watch out for blight on potatoes and tomatoes Veg garden jobs …….

Fruit Garden		Herb Garden		Ornamental Garden
Fruit pest and disease watch Summer prune red currants and gooseberries Pick, pick, pick… and eat Fruit garden jobs..		Edible flowers from the herb garden Herbs to propagate this month Cuttings to take Herb garden jobs..		Raise the height of your mower cut Sit and enjoy the delights of your garden Watch out for greenhouse pests Ornamental garden jobs..

Fruit pest and disease watch

Summer prune red currants and gooseberries

Pick, pick, pick… and eat

Fruit garden jobs..

Edible flowers from the herb garden

Herbs to propagate this month

Cuttings to take

Herb garden jobs..

Raise the height of your mower cut

Sit and enjoy the delights of your garden

Watch out for greenhouse pests

Ornamental garden jobs..

Around the garden
Mulching and water conservation Try and keep all bare soil covered either with plants or use mulches on the surface to keep moisture in. Grass clippings can be piled onto beds, several inches thick. Don't cover young seedlings (apart from weeds) and don't pile up too close to plant stems. Ten Top Tips on how to conserve water in the organic garden.. Check compost bins from time to time. If the contents appear too dry, add some water and 'wet' waste, such as kitchen peelings and grass clippings. Take the opportunity to turn the contents too, this will help to aerate it and activate the bacteria that help to decompose all your waste into lovely rich, dark humus to put back on the garden. If you find all your bins are full at this time of year, start a new one. Contact your local authority to see if they have any cut price bins on offer, or see our building a compost box (requires members' password to access online). Inevitably, weeds and pests increase in number as summer progresses. Why not visit the gardens at Ryton and participate in some of our Courses, talks and workshops at our Organic Gardens to learn more about how to control these problems in an organic garden? This section of the Garden Organic website - What to do in your garden now - is produced by the Information Section of Garden Organic – the organic organisation. If you are a member of Garden Organic, you also have access to our full range of factsheets and other useful information on the Garden Organic website, and to our Organic Gardening helpline – by email, phone and letter. More information here about the benefits of joining Garden Organic. Organic Gardening DOs & DON'Ts A checklist for going organic in your garden For more detailed guidance on what is, and isn't organic, have a browse through the Garden Organic Guidelines for Organic Gardeners Bookmark this page on: StumbleUpon \| Delicious \| Reddit \| Digg \| Facebook Top of page \| Home \| Privacy \| Contact \| Advertise \| Support us All content © Garden Organic \| Registered Charity No 298104 Garden Organic is the working name of the Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRA). We are not responsible for the content of external web sites. Supported by	Grass clippings Add kitchen waste to your compost to keep it moist Early potato blight

Around the garden

Mulching and water conservation

Try and keep all bare soil covered either with plants or use mulches on the surface to keep moisture in. Grass clippings can be piled onto beds, several inches thick. Don't cover young seedlings (apart from weeds) and don't pile up too close to plant stems.

Ten Top Tips on how to conserve water in the organic garden..

Check compost bins from time to time. If the contents appear too dry, add some water and 'wet' waste, such as kitchen peelings and grass clippings. Take the opportunity to turn the contents too, this will help to aerate it and activate the bacteria that help to decompose all your waste into lovely rich, dark humus to put back on the garden.

If you find all your bins are full at this time of year, start a new one. Contact your local authority to see if they have any cut price bins on offer, or see our building a compost box (requires members' password to access online).

Inevitably, weeds and pests increase in number as summer progresses. Why not visit the gardens at Ryton and participate in some of our Courses, talks and workshops at our Organic Gardens to learn more about how to control these problems in an organic garden?

This section of the Garden Organic website - What to do in your garden now - is produced by the Information Section of Garden Organic – the organic organisation. If you are a member of Garden Organic, you also have access to our full range of factsheets and other useful information on the Garden Organic website, and to our Organic Gardening helpline – by email, phone and letter. More information here about the benefits of joining Garden Organic.

Organic Gardening DOs & DON'Ts

A checklist for going organic in your garden

For more detailed guidance on what is, and isn't organic, have a browse through the Garden Organic Guidelines for Organic Gardeners

Bookmark this page on:

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All content © Garden Organic | Registered Charity No 298104

Garden Organic is the working name of the Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRA).
We are not responsible for the content of external web sites.

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Grass clippings

Add kitchen waste to your
compost to keep it moist

Early potato blight