Here’s what I sowed, grew and harvested in July.
July 2024 Weather Statistics in East England, UK
- Daylight Hours in UK: 15 & a half hours a day.
- To find your daylight hours, visit: TimeandDateUKand TimeandDateUSA
- No of Rainy Days: 8
- No of Sunny/cloudy Days: 23
- Average Temperature: 21 degrees Centigrade high and 13 average Low temperature.
Here is what I sowed, growed and harvested in July:
Sowings Timeline – July
Weekend 1 – 7 July 24
- 🍈 Mini Melon ‘Minnesota Midget’ flowering in the unheated greenhouse.
- Courgette ‘Summer Holiday F1’ (a yellow stripy ball courgette) forming tiny yellow courgette balls.
- 🍅 Tomatoes ‘Cherrola F1’ started to change colour in the unheated greenhouse.
- 🫘 Broad Beans ‘Eleonora’ last of pods Harvested. Plants removed from soil.
- 🧅 Onions ‘Hercules F1’ started to fatten up and stand above the ground.
- Still Harvesting – 🥒Cucumber ‘Piccolino F1 Mini’.
Weekend 8 – 14 July
- Squash ‘Jester F1’ x 2 planted into Raised Bed 1 in amongst the garlic and tomatoes.
- Sweet Pepper ‘Napia’ red – HARVEST!
- Courgette ‘Zephyr’ x 2 – baby courgettes forming on plants in containers.
- 🍑 Peach ‘Inka’ x 6 – HARVEST! 🎉
- BlackBerry ‘Loch ness thornless’ – HARVEST! 🎉
- Still Harvesting – Blueberry ‘Duke’🫐
- 🍅 Tomato ‘Cherrola F1’ – HARVEST! 🎉
Weekend 15 – 21 July
- 🌺 Build and plant front garden raised flowerbed.
- Harvest Lavender plants in front garden.
- 🦠 DISEASE – Powdery Mildew on Courgetteleaves.
- 🍓Cut & plant Strawberry Runners into separate pots.
- 🦟 PEST – Blackfly on apple leaves.
- 🍅 Tomatoes ‘Tom Thumb’ forming.
- 🦠 DISEASE – Blossom End Rot on Tomatoes.
- 🧄 Cut off Garlic Scapes.
Weekend 22 – 28 July
- 🥕 Carrot ‘Marion F1’ – HARVEST ! 🎉.
- 🌽 Sweetcorn ‘Goldcrest F1’ Top Tassels appear & cobs start to form.
- 🍅 Tomato ‘Cherrola F1’ – HARVEST!
- Courgette ‘Zephyr’ x 2 plants – HARVEST! 2 courgettes! 🎉
- 🧅 Some Onions in pot and Raised Bed 4 tops are folding flat.
- 🦟 PEST – Cabbage White Butterfly – Tiny green caterpillars and yellow eggs found on Brussels Sprouts plant.
- 🍏 Apples branch snapped under weight of apples on golden delicious- 3 x apples – HARVEST! 🎉
- Squash ‘Jester F1 – baby squash appeared.
- 🍈 Mini Melon ‘Minnesota Midget’ – baby melon formed.
- 🌶️ Sweet Pepper ‘Tangerine Dream’ changing colour to red.
Weekend 29 July – 31 July
- Continued Harvest of: Mini Cucumbers, Cherry red tomatoes, sweet peppers, blackberries, Lettuce.
- HARVEST – 🥔 1st Early Potatoes ‘Casablanca’ – 84 Potatoes from 10 Tubers (5 tubers in each container).
- Ball Courgette ‘Summer Holiday F1’ forming balls.
- 🍈 Mini Melon ‘Minnesota Midget’ forming mini melons.
- HARVEST – 🍅 Tomatoes ‘Orange Cherry’ planted Outdoors in Raised Bed 1.
- HARVEST – 🍅 Tomatoes ‘Tiny Tim’ outdoors in pots.
July – Sow, Grow, Harvest – Gallery
Raised Bed 1 – July – Tomatoes, Squash, Lettuce, Garlic.
Raised Bed 2 – July – Onions, Courgettes, Chives, Lettuce.
Raised Bed 3 – Sweetcorn, Pumpkins, French beans & sunflowers.
Raised Bed 4 – Carrots, Parsnips, Onions, Leeks.
Containers – Potatoes
Courgette ‘Zephyr’ in Pots
In the Greenhouse
Mini Melons forming
Harvests
13 Vegetable Articles written in July:
Vegetable Seeds to Sow in July
Vegetable Seeds to Sow in July
Pumpkins, Courgettes & Squash
Growing Pumpkins – Let’s Get Ready to Ramble
Courgettes, pumpkins and squash – Male & Female Flowers explained
Pests & Diseases
5 Symptoms that your Plant is feeling Stressed and How to make them feel better.
July Harvest
Broad Beans, Peach, BlackBerry, Lettuce, Cherry Tomatoes, Sweet Peppers & Mini Cucumbers.
Sweet Peppers
Keeping the Tangerine Dream’ Alive – Sweet Peppers are changing colour.
Tomatoes
Part 6 – Tomatoes – Common Diseases and Solutions.
Our Fruit Garden
Strawberries – How to Multiply your number of Strawberry Plants next year.
Sweetcorn
Grow your own Sweetcorn Cobs – July Update.
July – Videos
Part 5 – How to Harvest a Sweet Pepper (rams horn type)
Part 7 – How to Harvest a Tomato
Strawberries – How to Multiply your number of Strawberry Plants next year.
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