As a customer of our herb, vegetable and/or flower seeds here at Seeds By Post (http://www.seedsbypost.co.uk), you may appreciate some pointers as to how to best make use of the long evenings at this time of year. Certainly, July often produces some of the hottest days of the year, but Westerly winds can also bring unpredictable rainfall, so mulching or watering plants regularly is a must.
Droughts can certainly persist, which can make an evening syringe of water necessary for increasingly crestfallen-looking autumn or spring-planted shrubs. Keep an eye out for powdery mildew, which is a sign that you'll need to water more deeply. You'll need to combat such drought at the roots by soaking, rather than regularly watering, the affected plants.
You'll also need to keep any evergreen hedges of yours nicely trimmed, with topiary being a fascinating pastime at this time of year. It can certainly be slow and awkward to get right, but good tips include clipping a few yews in pyramid or corkscrew designs and having them stood in tubs at each side of your front door.
Next, it's a good idea to tend to your flower garden, which should be a feast of colour by now. Remember to deadhead flowers on a daily basis, so that recurrent flowering roses continue to produce flowers. A failure to deadhead as often as this will result in flowers simply producing seeds instead. However, you should leave once-blooming roses alone, given their capacity to bear autumn fruit.
Currants, raspberries, cherries and strawberries will need to be netted this month if the birds are not to reach them first. You should pick fruit the instant it ripens, working from the bushes twice in different directions so that you don't miss anything. If you have plum trees, which are notorious overproducers, you should remember to shake out or pick off some fruit before it swells.
If you are a customer of our vegetable seeds, the start of the month is the perfect time to spray all tomatoes and potatoes with Bordeaux mixture, while a good tomato booster is also invaluable in keeping outdoor tomatoes in good condition. Your tomatoes setting their first truss is your cue to start feeding them once a week with a high-potassium feed, while potatoes will need to be dug as soon as they are ready so that you can reuse the ground.
There are so many more tips that are relevant to how you use your garden at this time of year. Keep reading this blog, or contact our experts at the leading source of affordable seeds online, http://www.seedsbypost.co.uk, for more of the very latest buying and gardening advice.
Editor’s Note: Seeds By Post (http://www.seedsbypost.co.uk) is represented by the search engine advertising and digital marketing specialists Jumping Spider Media. Please direct all press queries to Louise Byrne. Email: [email protected] or call: +44 (0)20 3070 1959 / +34 952 783 637.
Droughts can certainly persist, which can make an evening syringe of water necessary for increasingly crestfallen-looking autumn or spring-planted shrubs. Keep an eye out for powdery mildew, which is a sign that you'll need to water more deeply. You'll need to combat such drought at the roots by soaking, rather than regularly watering, the affected plants.
You'll also need to keep any evergreen hedges of yours nicely trimmed, with topiary being a fascinating pastime at this time of year. It can certainly be slow and awkward to get right, but good tips include clipping a few yews in pyramid or corkscrew designs and having them stood in tubs at each side of your front door.
Next, it's a good idea to tend to your flower garden, which should be a feast of colour by now. Remember to deadhead flowers on a daily basis, so that recurrent flowering roses continue to produce flowers. A failure to deadhead as often as this will result in flowers simply producing seeds instead. However, you should leave once-blooming roses alone, given their capacity to bear autumn fruit.
Currants, raspberries, cherries and strawberries will need to be netted this month if the birds are not to reach them first. You should pick fruit the instant it ripens, working from the bushes twice in different directions so that you don't miss anything. If you have plum trees, which are notorious overproducers, you should remember to shake out or pick off some fruit before it swells.
If you are a customer of our vegetable seeds, the start of the month is the perfect time to spray all tomatoes and potatoes with Bordeaux mixture, while a good tomato booster is also invaluable in keeping outdoor tomatoes in good condition. Your tomatoes setting their first truss is your cue to start feeding them once a week with a high-potassium feed, while potatoes will need to be dug as soon as they are ready so that you can reuse the ground.
There are so many more tips that are relevant to how you use your garden at this time of year. Keep reading this blog, or contact our experts at the leading source of affordable seeds online, http://www.seedsbypost.co.uk, for more of the very latest buying and gardening advice.
Editor’s Note: Seeds By Post (http://www.seedsbypost.co.uk) is represented by the search engine advertising and digital marketing specialists Jumping Spider Media. Please direct all press queries to Louise Byrne. Email: [email protected] or call: +44 (0)20 3070 1959 / +34 952 783 637.