- Take cuttings of new shoots of camellias, rooting them in a gritty compost in a covered propagator.
- Clean pond pump filters to ensure they don’t get clogged up with algae.
- Harvest Japanese onions planted last autumn.
- Cut back delphiniums to encourage new growth and the chance of a second display.
- Obtain cabbage seed for sowing later in the month or in early August, to provide crops next spring.
- When gloxinias finish flowering, remove faded blooms and gradually withhold water until the leaves wither. Then stand the pots in a dry position where the bulbs can rest until urged back into growth next spring.
- Feed trees and shrubs that are performing badly with a high-nitrogen liquid fertiliser.
- Cut culinary herbs and dry or freeze to use later in the year.
- Feed tomato plants regularly.
- Make sure leafy vegetables such as lettuces and spinach, as well as fruiting crops, peas and beans, are watered sufficiently.
- Top up garden pools to replace water lost through evaporation.
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