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July Gardening

July Gardening

This is the time of peak flowers and rapidly growing fresh veggies, weeds and pesty bugs.  It’s the best of gardening and time to enjoy all your work coming into fruition. There is also work to do. Mulching and fertilizing, regular weeding, watching for pests (bugs & critters) but also early harvests have begun, and succession plantings can start. In this article I’ll cover some ideas about converting weeds to fertilizer, mulching, planting, and hilling potatoes. Weeds are simply taking…

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July Garden Care

July Garden Care

Gardens are in their peak growth phase and things are getting big fast.  So are the weeds, bugs, and slugs.  If you have already side-dressed with compost to feed and mulched to cover the soil you can now think about more specific tasks.  It’s a great time to be gardening and may seem a challenge just to keep up.  Let’s try to focus on a few priority things to do in early July so the garden does well without overwhelming…

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