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South Downs Nurseries
Brighton Road
Hassocks
West Sussex
BN6 9LY
T 01273 845232
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July is usually the warmest and wettest of the summer months. It is quite often the month when we go on holiday.

• Flowers and bedding.
  Water,dead-head and feed. If you are going on holiday get someone to come in and water while you are away. If you can't find a willing volunteer, put all your containers and baskets in a shady spot and soak them thoroughly before you go. Plant autumn flowering bulbs such as Colchicums.

• Perennials.
  Cut back early flowering perennials to encourage a second flush of flowers. Cut back Lupins and delphiniums to ground level to encourage them to flower again. Continue to feed and disbud dahlias, feed and tie in Chrysanthemums.

• Shrubs and climbers.
  Prune Jasmine and Philadelphus after flowering.

• Trees and hedges.
  Continue to weed the base of hedges. Trim Quickthorn.

• Roses.
  Cut for flowers and deadhead. Keep spraying and give them a feed.

• Lawns.
  Try not to water as it will make the grass more prone to drying out in the future. If you do have to, leave the sprinkler in position for a long time, so that the water thoroughly penetrates the soil.

• Vegetables.
  Sow swedes and hardy turnips. Finish planting leeks, late sprouts, sprouting and spring broccoli.Water crops when dry. Start to lift onions and shallots, cut cucumbers.

• Fruit.
  Pcik soft fruit, summer prune restricted fruit trees (those trained in certain forms such as espaliers).Thin apple and pear fruitlets. Protect against birds and support heavily laden branches. Discard strawberry plants that have cropped three times. Pick raspberries, cut down those canes that have fruited and tidy the plants up. Continue summer pruning vines.

• Ponds.
  Weed regularly. Thin oxygenating plants and lily leaves if they are crowding the pool.

• Greenhouse.
  Water, ventilate and damp down. Take pelargonium cuttings. Pick fruit.

• Indoors.
  Continue watering and feeding. If you are going on holiday try to get someone to water your plants, it does help if they know what they are doing. If you can't persuade someone to help, or your friends are not greenfingered, put them all in the bath and fill it a couple of inches full. This should keep them relatively safe till you return.