PBOG’s Garden To-Do List for July
- Cut scapes from garlic to promote greater root development, then chop and saute the scapes in your summer cooking
- Harvest garlic when only 5 green leaves remain on the plant, then set out to cure in a dry space
- Pick peas, strawberries, rhubarb, raspberries, and blueberries promptly
- Net blueberries against birds while berries are still green
- Keep up with weeding in all garden beds
- Top off mulch as needed in bare spots
- Cut stems of parsley to the base if beginning to flower
- Discard cilantro now as it prefers cool weather (another crop can be planted in the fall)
- Finish pinching back asters, boltonia, amsonia, and other tall plants before July 4 (after that you may impact fall bloom)
- Bearded iris can be divided and reset now
- Deadhead roses and prune out vegetative canes (see article)
- Deadhead perennials and annuals throughout the garden to promote rebloom and to make space to show off later color
- Keep watering new plantings that went in since last fall
- Order garlic bulbs and autumn crocus now for late summer planting