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• Keep weeds under control: Our favourite tools are the Dutch hoe and the swoe. Use a layer of bark chip or sterile mulch as a barrier against drifting weed seed.
• Watch out for extremely sunny conditions and check for water requirements.
• Cut lawns regularly, either once a week or as needs.
• Water the lawn if it needs it, only in the evening, it saves wastage. Do not over water as you are using a valuable resource.
• Slug Awareness: Protect your herbaceous plants from slug attack, use whatever method you feel comfortable with.
• Liquid feed containerised plants: Use higher nitrogen feed such as Miracle Grow or Phostrogen. By the end of the month switch to higher potash feeds such as Tomorite and Maxicrop. You can also give a little liquid feed to the rest of the flower border to add a bit of vavavoom.
• Support tall herbaceous: Place out your supports for tall and top heavy herbaceous plants.
• Deadhead flower border regularly: Leave anything that may have attractive autumn pods or hips or that might give the birds a bit of food later on.
• Divide up the clumps of bearded Iris.
• You will need to be spraying roses for black spot and rust.
• Start to defend against bindweed: As soon as you see it start to train it up bamboo canes and let it become big and bushy, in late August you dowse it with gyphosate (very satisfying).
• You can now put your Cymbidium, Yucca and Citrus plants outside for the summer.
• Your lawn will be going through a physical roller coaster ride. If you want to water it, do so in the evenings when the water has enough time to sink in and do some good. As yet, Jersey has not had a hosepipe ban.
• If you want to feed your lawn, only do so when we have had a couple of days of wetter weather and it looks as if it may stay wet for a further two.
• In very hot weather let the grass grow a little longer so that the tops shade the roots a little.
• Use selective weed-killer on overcast or cooler days; it could backfire on you on very hot days.
• Net soft fruit or it will be donated to the blackbird society before you know it.
• Water fruit and vegetables every 10 days if it is dry. This is now necessary to avoid bolting.
• Top out tomatoes and remove new side shoots to allow those present to produce a good crop.
• Plant out any remaining vegetables that you started in the greenhouse.
• Check runner beans for support. Tie in any unruly growth.
• Keep harvesting and re-sowing lettuce, spring onion and radish and carrot.
• Lots and lots of harvesting now happening. This is great time for a harvesting party.
• But a fire pit and have a barbeque party with outdoor lighting and patio heaters, you’ll be a star!
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