July Winter Gardening Advice
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A July Winter check list for your garden!
Vegetables
Plant leafy vegetables now and rotate your crops so you avoid growing the same plants in the same spot each year. Tomato, chili and capsicum seeds can be planted in trays inside as its too cold outside. Try early potatoes in a bucket - three per 15 litre bucket. Start undercover and move outside once sprouted. Please note that the early varieties are quick growing (60-70 days) but can’t be stored for long periods like main crop varieties.
Fruit Trees
Complete pruning while trees are still dormant. Spray with Liquid cooper to prevent diseases like leaf curl in stone fruit and black spot on apple trees. Apply pre bud burst and then 10-14 days later or immediately after rain.
Flowers
Roses can now be pruned and pruning should be completed no later than the first week of August. Follow with a copper spray to help seal cuts and stop fungal infections. Feed with rose fertiliser and sheep pellets. Fertilise flowering bulbs to ensure development of next years flowers.
July Winter Shrubs
July Winter Herbs
- Allysum
- Calendula
- Cyclamen
- Daffodil
- Forget-me-nots
- Gladiolus
- Hebes
- Hellebores
- Pansy & Viola
- Polyanthus
- Primula
- Roses
- Snapdragon
- Sweet William
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