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 collected rainwater or grey water where possible.
1 Deadhead bedding plants and repeat-flowering perennials to ensure continuous flowering
2 Care for houseplants while on holiday
3 Water tubs and new plants if dry, but be water-wise
4 Check clematis for signs of clematis wilt
5 Pick courgettes before they become marrows
6 Pick tomatoes as they ripen, continuing to remove sideshoots and feed and water the plants
7 Clear algae and blanket weeds from ponds, and top up with stored rainwater
8 Deadhead, feed and water for a long-lasting show. Put a saucer under containers to reduce watering
9 Don’t worry if your lawn goes brown, as it will bounce back when we have rain
10 Harvest apricots, peaches and nectarines
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Lodsworth & District Garden Club
is for everyone interested in plants and gardening!
You are very welcome to join us no matter what type of garden
you have, be it large or small, established or new, a conservatory,
an allotment, a windowbox or pot plants on the patio. We want
to encourage interest in all types of gardening in our community, providing opportunities for our members to share gardening experience and increasing knowledge of plants and gardens.
We welcome new members to join the Lodsworth & District
Garden Club whatever their level of gardening experience! Membership benefits include subsidised entry to our talks, workshops and visits, with discount from a wide variety of local horticultural suppliers. Please look at our contact page for details of becoming a member of the LDGC and a full list of benefits.
We look forward to welcoming you!
