July the busiest month, keep up with growth!

A major month for everything in the garden! Harvests keep you busy and they result in empty spaces.

Soil does not need a rest, so it’s good to keep resowing and replanting. There are many possibilities.

Don’t worry about four year rotation unless your soil is depleted and has soil diseases like clubroot.

Make loads of compost!
Link to my page on Crocus https://tidd.ly/4489yyu

Harvest second early potatoes, and onions probably later in the month
If it rains a few times there are chances of late bight.
SOW in temperate climates:
1 In the first week sow dwarf beans, beetroot and carrots (direct only).
2 Until mid month sow chicory for radicchio.
3 At any time sow salad onions, chard, lettuce and endive.
4 After mid month sow Florence fennel, coriander, chervil and Chinese cabbage.
Wait until August for spinach and salad rocket.
Transplant leeks, brassicas, salads.
Pest protection against caterpillars, I use mesh for smaller plants and Bacillus thuringiensis when they are larger. In the UK, it's called "Box hedge caterpillar killer".

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00:00 Introduction
00:45 Second plantings
01:05 Ridge cucumber and multisown beetroot
01:20 Carrots
01:51 Onions, downy mildew - early harvest
02:51 Kale, and when to water
03:20 Potatoes - Casablanca variety, grass as mulch
04:46 Multisown leeks
05:12 Lettuce - young transplants
05:27 Celery - lots of water needed
05:46 French bean, planted today
06:31 Garlic harvest, and rust
07:25 Compost - making, the temperature of heaps, stage of decomposition, rain, smaller compost bins
10:54 Interplanting - Brussels with carrots
12:31 Mesh cover
13:03 Compost bay pallet system
14:30 Multisown beetroot from early planting
15:22 Early July sowings - Savoy cabbage, broccoli
15:54 Pests, be wary
16:15 Lettuce under Thermacrop, and bindweed - how to remove
16:42 Protection against rabbits, and foxes
17:09 Removing covers, and the benefits of mesh
17:35 Bird netting, against rabbits and deer
18:04 Polytunnel plants - tomatoes, problems with growth, and deleafing
19:55 Melons looking stronger, need pruning
20:41 Cucumber plants - problems with leaves, slow to fruit
21:51 Melons in the greenhouse - good growth, and tomatoes - not so good
22:39 Propagation - a lot! - some ideas
23:42 Potting on
24:26 Four-year rotation, not necessary
24:38 Outro

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Filmed Homeacres 25th June by Edward Dowding.
Music by Rory Dinwoodie, IG: rorydinwoodiemusic

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