Kitchen garden
- Start lifting maincrop potatoes
- Summer prune trained fruit trees such as fans, espaliers, stepovers and cordons
- On ‘rod and spur’-trained grapevines, trim non-flowering side branches to five leaves and subsequent growth to one leaf. Shorten fruit-bearing branches to two leaves beyond their fruit bunch.
- Yellow, red-purple or browning between tomato leaf veins is usually
- magnesium deficiency. Keep moist, avoid overfeeding with fertiliser and spray leaves with Epsom salts
- Leave marrows, pumpkins and winter squashes to ripen on the plant, but harvest before weather turns frosty. Ideally place the fruit on wooden board or a tile to prevent soiling and rotting
Ornamental garden
Pest and disease watch
- Remove fruit affected with brown rot to reduce spread of the infection
- Keep leeks protected with enviromesh or fleece against leaf mining fly and leek moth.
- Gather and dispose of fallen rose leaves affected by black spot.
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Lawn
- Mom summer-flowering meadows at the end of the month. Leave hay for a few days to allow seeds to drop then remove
- Do not use lawn weedkillers if the weather is hot and dry: weeds need to be in active growth
Glasshouse & indoor
Pond
- Thin out oxygenating plants. Leave on the side of the pond to allow wildlife to crawl back
- Where possible cover the pond with netting to prevent leaves falling in and rotting in water
- Continue removing blanket weed and duckweed
