July monthly gardening activities

Explore our monthly activities to do in the garden with your children and young people in July.

1. If you have volunteers who are looking after the school garden over the summer, you could ask them to sow spring cabbage, turnips, chicory, fennel, autumn and winter salads. These could be sown in spots where other crops have been harvested.
2. July is when the weather gets hotter so all plants, especially those in pots, will need to be watered more often. Try to only water in the evening or early morning as evaporation rates are reduced at these times of day. Water at the base of plants; wetting foliage loses water to evaporation. Discover more water saving tips.
3. Harvest vegetables including spinach, peas, beans, carrots, potatoes, beetroot, salad leaves, spring-planted garlic and onions.
4. Pick courgettes before they become marrows.
5. Harvest fruit including cherries, strawberries, raspberries, apricots and peaches.
6. Keep deadheading flowering plants so they will continue producing new buds and flowers.
7. July is the month to check that tree ties, stakes and covers are not damaging the trunk. If you find that they have started to cut into the bark then gently remove them and find larger ties and covers.
8. Start collecting flowers and seedheads from lavender plants and use them to make a calming lavender bag, add them to food such as cakes and biscuits, cut and dry them for a dried flower displays or use them in other crafts.
9. Buy carrot seeds and potato tubers, ready to plant them at the end of the month or in early August.
10. Clear algae, blanket weeds and debris from ponds, and keep them topped up.

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