July

Gardening Tasks for July: Preparing for Spring

As we delve deeper into winter, July invites us to nurture essential gardening tasks that will lay the groundwork for a vibrant and blossoming garden in the upcoming spring. Let's embrace the magic of gardening with these essential to-dos:

Winter veggies

• Plant cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, spinach, onion, leek, pak choi, celery & silverbeet seedlings.

• Plant asparagus crowns.

• Plant rhubarb plants.

• Plant early to main crop potatoes.

• Sow broad beans.

• Plant any unused parts of the garden with a green crop such as lupin or mustard.

Flowers

• Plant polyanthus, pansies, primulas, wallflowers, stock, cineraria, poppies, lobelia, kale,alyssum, ranunculus, nemesia, cyclamen & violas.

• Feed winter flowering annuals with Novatec Nitrophoska.

• Plant new seasons lilies.

• Lift and divide summer and autumn flowering perennials (e.g. asters, phlox, canna's & dahlia).

• Plant peonies.

• Plant new seasons roses.

• Plant daphne and boronia.

Indoor plants

• Liquid feed any plants which are flowering, for example orchids, cyclamen.

• Water sparingly.

Around the garden

• Plant general shrubs, deciduous trees, rhododendrons, camellias & fruit trees.

• Prune climbing plants, fruit trees.

• Best month to prune roses, hydrangeas & grapes.

• Spray roses and deciduous trees with copper oxychloride or conqueror oil if not done last month.

• Dress lawns with lime and superphosphate, four weeks apart.

• In areas where there are frosts, cover frost tender plants at night.

• Now is the time to move established trees and shrubs if required.