July Gardening To Do List

Monthly Calender for Newbie Gardener’s in the Southern Hemisphere.

July Notes

Mid-winter is upon us and really the same advice as for June. Leave soil to rest as much as you can.
It will preform better come spring if you do. Citrus fruit harvest is beginning about now, so roll up your sleeves & begin picking, juicing, eating & preserving.
But, if you must do something:

Sow Direct Seed of:
Vegetables:
Dwarf Broad Beans
Peas
Jerusalem Artichoke
Potatoes
Radish
Garlic
Herbs:
None
Flowers:
Sweetpea
Statice

Sow or Plant Out: Mid-season Onions

In frost free areas: Also sow: Lettuce, spring onions, annual lupins & dianthus
In cold frames: sow: Celery, Echinacea
In cold areas: sow: Spinach

Plant:
Vegetables:
Asparagus crowns
Rhubarb crowns
Flowers/shrubs:
Bare-rooted Roses
Deciduous Trees, Shrubs & Vines toward end of month
Trees:
Pistachio

In frost free areas Also Plant: Fig, day lily & shasta daisy
Plant a green manure crop or cover crop of: Faba bean or field pea

GENERAL
Prune: In frost free areas: Roses, grapes and crepe myrtle late in the month

As mentioned do as little as possible to your garden beds, except leave them to rest.

Tidy up fencing, greenhouse.

Clean tools, pots and floors.

FEEDING
On damp soil: apply fertiliser tea to: Lettuce if needed
Apply ? strength fortnightly to Spinach until thinned

Apply seaweed tea to: Citrus, apricot trees and potato bed for August planting

HARVEST
Oranges
Lemons
Tangelos
Grapefruit
Chinese Cabbage
Jerusalem Artichokes/Sun Chokes