Gardener and gardener calendar for July

We hope our gardener and gardener calendar for June helped you cope with the basic work in the beds and in the garden at the beginning of summer. However, active work continues in July, highlight the most important of them:

1. In the middle of summer, one of the most important tasks of site owners is harvesting ripening berries. Raspberries and blackberries must be picked literally every other day; the berries must not be allowed to crumble. Gooseberries and currants also ripen. Traditionally, jam is made from berries, compotes are preserved. And the easiest way to preserve the harvest of berries throughout the winter is to rinse, dry and freeze.

2. In July, gardeners begin to harvest cucumbers. We advise you to go around the beds with cucumbers every morning so that they do not have time to outgrow. Fresh cucumbers can be stored in the refrigerator until enough to preserve. There are a lot of recipes for pickled cucumbers, any housewife has a signature and favorite.

3. On the beds with tomatoes, the greatest danger now is the appearance of late blight. How to deal with this scourge, we wrote, the most popular way is to treat plants with a 1% solution of Bordeaux liquid.

4. If summer is dry, regular watering remains the most important concern of gardeners. In this case, all means are good: drip irrigation, hoses, watering cans, even plastic bottles. It is best to water the beds in the evening so that the moisture does not evaporate so quickly. The tree trunks must be loosened after watering..

5. During the ripening of berries and vegetables, it is advisable to feed the plants. Solutions of ash, mullein (1: 8), superphosphates are used.

6. In the middle of summer, you can and should plant greens again, you will also have time to collect the second harvest of radish.

7. For the harvest you will have to fight pests, including the Colorado potato beetle. Against aphids, summer residents are advised to use Karbofos – 70 g per 10 liters of water. In general, as experts note, the use of hybrids and varieties of vegetable crops that are resistant to them, as well as careful adherence to agrotechnical techniques and alternation of plants in the beds, allows preventing the appearance of pests.

8. July is the time to harvest garlic and onions. Stop watering the beds with them after about 20 days to keep them better in winter. Before sending onions and garlic to the cellar, they should be dried in a shaded place. For this purpose, braids can be made that will be convenient to hang..

9. Faded buds are removed from the flower beds, it is time to sow the seeds of daisies, forget-me-nots, pansies. The rest of the flowers, including roses, are watered as needed, loosen the soil around. Wild rose hips on roses need to be pruned in time.

10. In the middle of summer, it is time to renew the mulch in the beds and near-stem circles to prevent weeds and retain moisture.

11. Lawn maintenance in July is regular mowing and watering as needed. You can fertilize with mineral fertilizers.

12. In the middle of summer, early varieties of potatoes, cabbage, carrots begin to be harvested.

As for the lunar calendar, in July 2018 the new moon will come on the 13th, and the full moon on the 27th.

Successful harvesting in the beds and pleasant rest after summer hassle in the garden and vegetable garden!