July is the month when all the hard work in the vegetable garden bares fruit. A lot of time will be spent harvesting fruit and vegetables.

Sow directly into the ground:

Kale, spinach beet, Chinese greens, cabbages, winter lettuce & winter radish.

Harvest:

Soft fruit, such as raspberries, strawberries, gooseberries, currants, tay berries.

French & runner beans, peas, potatoes, cabbages, spinach, beetroot, courgettes.

Salad leaves, lettuces, radish & tomatoes.

Other jobs:

Water regularly & keep down weeds by hoeing.

Ridge up main crop potatoes.

Cut down raspberry canes as soon as they have finished producing fruit & tie this years canes to the wires.

Read

e-book, Famine in the West, £2.49, which can be purchased from peakfood

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