Gardening Year - July

July is when your garden is likely to be looking at its best with wonderfully colourful displays in flower borders, pots and containers. If you have managed to squeeze in a few vegetables, many of these should now be cropping heavily. As the weather is generally a good deal warmer now and days are longer there are many opportunities to enjoy your garden, sitting out on your garden furniture with a glass of wine and relaxing in the late afternoons and early evenings.

You might think this to mean that there is also a lot of work to do but to be honest this is not one of the most time consuming months in the garden, which is great because it means you have all the more time to enjoy the fruits of your labours. However, if you want to keep the garden looking as good as it can for as long as possible, you still need to carry out a fair amount of maintenance work and to keep your eye on plants and their problems, just in case anything tries to get out of hand.