This is often one of the hottest months of the year and a great time to sit out and enjoy your garden. Keep plants looking good by regularly deadheading, and you’ll enjoy a longer display of blooms. Make sure you keep new plants watered, using grey water where possible.
Top gardening jobs this month
- Deadhead bedding plants and repeat-flowering perennials, to ensure continuous flowering
Keep plants looking attractive and encourage more blooms, whether in beds and borders, containers or hanging baskets. - Care for houseplants while on holiday
Most houseplants will tolerate a few days’ absence without suffering, but longer absences call for some creative measures to provide the right amount of moisture. - Water tubs and new plants if dry, but be water-wise
Watering is one of the most important jobs when growing plants in containers. If your water butt is running dry, don’t forget you can use grey water you collect in the house. - Check clematis for signs of clematis wilt
- Pick courgettes before they become marrows
- Start picking tomatoes as they ripen, continuing to remove sideshoots and feed and water the plants
- Clear algae, blanket weeds and debris from ponds, and keep them topped up
- Deadhead, feed and water for a long-lasting show. Put a saucer under containers to reduce watering
- Don’t worry if your lawn goes brown, as it will soon bounce back when we have rain
- Harvest apricots, peaches and nectarines
This article originally appeared on RHS and was republished with permission.