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July 2016
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Details of what was sown/planted in July
For July 2016 weather summary
Details of our July harvest
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Peas are flowering
Planted out some spare beetroot and red cabbage in mixed bed and also sowed some radish and red lettuce.
Clean potatoes - will it last?
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Harvested apricots
Did some weeding, bed preparation and harvesting on the plot
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Spent the afternoon at Harlow Carr
Bought 4 plans for the pebble gardens
Roscoea scillifolia f. atropurpurea, Bergeranthus Glenensis, Saxifraga Dr Ramsey and Penstemon Campanulatus Pulchellus
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Planted new plants on pebble gardens
Potted coleus and sowed some salad seeds in raised bed in garden.
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Dug first Orla potatoes
Biennial flower seeds have germinated
Picking raspberries
Blimey only went to water the tomatoes
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Picked first broad beans.
Picked first redcurrants, gooseberries and tayberries
Mediterranean fruits - an update
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Planted alpine strawberries
Sowed salad seeds
Netted blueberries
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Buddleias starting to flower on the plot
Picked the first Mini Munch cucumber
Annual cutting patch starting to flower
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Hostas being sprayed with slug repellent regularly
Campanula lacitifolia flowering
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Staked some perennials in the red and yellow bed - must do sooner next year.
Tomatoes setting fruit
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Picked first of the mangetouts.
Found that the wood pigeons hadn't had all the jostaberries
Courgettes are now producing.
Are slugs letting your hostas grow?
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Dug one row of Casablanca potatoes
Picked broad beans for freezing
Picked first sweet peas.
Sowed more peas in space left by lifted potatoes
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Too hot to do much on the plot so a quick visit to water and harvest
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The buddleias are flowering but where are the butterflies?
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Picked first blueberries
Martyn trimmed laurel and apple hedges.
Found a giant puffball growing in the plot
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Picked first peas, Cobra climbing French beans and Robin Hood broad beans.
Lifted first of the Vivaldi potatoes.
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The climbing beans are flowering.
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A quick plot visit to water the tomatoes but rain prevented any more activity other than picking a few raspberries for dinner.
Sowed more sweet William and winter spinach in modules.
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