There's plenty to do in the garden this month!
While you’re enjoying your favorite beverage in the summer months, your garden will be extra thirsty, too. Gardens will explode this month with color and fruit as well as pests and weeds! You can help the garden grow by not allowing them to dry out!
Need a spot of color in a section of garden? Add annuals and jazz it up. They can go straight from the pot into the ground. Check all annuals for dryness as new plantings need to establish their roots. Deadhead spent blossoms by snapping or snipping them off, to reinvigorate flowering annuals and you will be rewarded by more flowers and root growth.
Perennials can be planted all this month, so you must keep up on deadheading tasks.
Roses should be fertilized once per month throughout the summer.
Weeds continue to grow with the flowers, so spare no time to pull them out!
Thin plants to give them better air circulation and exposure to the sun.
Continue to keep adding to and turning your compost pile. If it becomes too dry, the bacteria will die, so give you heap a shower whenever it starts to get crusty.
Consider planting vegertables for fall harvest. Plant potatoes early in the month and sow seeds of leafy green and red vegetables: spinach, kale, Swiss chard, broccoli, Chinese cabbage, lettuce, radishes, beets, carrots, peas, bush beans, onions and scallions.
Keep tomatoes and peppers off the ground, and harvest them as soon as they ripen so deer, rabbits, and other pests don't enjoy them before you can. Keep mulch around tomato plants.
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