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July 2019
Details of what was sown/planted in July
Archive for previous years' diaries dating from 2007 can be accessed by clicking here
This diary is a summary of our garden activities. The links are to blog posts that often give more detail.
1 - 7 July
Cleared more of the overgrown shrub border
Cut back the garrya
Rejuvenated the bird bath bed
Picked first cherries, black raspberries, blueberries, broad beans and gooseberries
Set out containers on the old strawberry bed
Sowed spring onions, spinach, radishes and salad leaves in the containers and home salad bar.
Tomatoes in grow bags showing symptoms of weed killer contamination of the compost.
Emailed manufacturers of both grow bags and weedkiller - a sample for testing has been sent off to the compost company,
Average weather and tomato problems
Tomato problems aminopyralid and clopyralid contamination
8 - 14 July
Lots of tidying in the garden and on the allotment
Planted new astilbes - one in bird bath bed and another in new flower bed
Planted impatiens and pansies in bird bath bed
Planted purple sprouting broccoli and Cendis cabbage
Sowed coriander in trough
Cut runners from strawberries
Picked first peas and broad beans
Dug first root of Premiere potatoes
A quick peep inside our garden greenhouse
Peas and beans take over centre stage
How not to plant new potatoes - Lifting Premiere - video
15 - 21 July
Still tidying and watering
Sowed more peas
Coriander has germinated
Covered containers with a mesh tunnel
Very hot and windy
Biologists from Corteva visited and took samples from grow bags
Visited Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Bought a primula vialli and an aster for new bed
Meeting with Corteva re - contaminated grow bags - video
Brilliant bean harvest - video
Checking brassicas under enviromesh - video
22 - 31 July
Very hot and then very wet and also windy so everything is being battered.
Few allotment visits
Covered containers with enviromesh
Lifted Casablanca and Athlete potatoes
Dug bed that potatoes were in
Picked our first peaches
Gardening on hold - summer changes to autumn
Our first taste of Athlete potatoes - video
Picking our first peach - video