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Growing and Harvesting seed potatoes.

It’s the perfect time to start thinking about the winter and festive crop season. Potatoes are a versatile vegetable and are eaten all year round. This late summer period is the perfect time to start planting potatoes for a festive harvest.

Your Garden this month – July is harvest and maintenance month! Taking care of your garden during the summer heat is essential.

It’s the British Garden Centres Roses Festival.

Homegrown carrots are full of flavour, packed with vitamins and a grow your own favourite. They can be grown in your vegetable patch, border or container. Find out where to start in our handy ‘grow your own’ blog.

The flavour of homegrown tomatoes straight from the vine just can’t be beaten. Tomatoes are easy to grow and produce a high yield, just a couple of plants will provide you with a delicious crop throughout the Summer. Tomatoes can be grown in the ground, in containers and in grow bags.

Roses are a classic and beautiful addition to any garden. They are the most widely bought flowering shrub, but with over 30,000 varieties of roses the choice can be bewildering. Let’s take a brief look at the main rose types to help you decide which rose is right for your garden.

Alpine plants are used to thin soil and cold temperatures which mean the plants are hardy, small and have an abundance of flowers.

Make your own pizza faces! For this project, we are using tomatoes, peppers and basil as these are what we are planning on growing this year. You can come up with a wide range of topping ideas to create your own tasty design if those aren’t your favourites!

Trimming and pruning is a key focus this month, trim back ivy and creepers if they have outgrown their space before birds start nesting in them. Prune winter-flowering shrubs that have finished flowering such as mahonia, heathers and winter jasmine. You can now cut back deciduous grasses leftover Winter ready for fresh growth to start as the weather warms up.

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