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Fruit Garden in July
 
Week N° - 27 1st - 7th

Thin out fruit on Apple and Plum trees to increase fruit size and quality.

Harvest Raspberries regularly.

At any time this month;

Give crops a liquid feed.

Peg down strawberry runners.

Prune excess raspberry canes.

 
Week N° - 28 8th-14th

Continue harvesting fruit as it ripens

Layer Blackberries,Loganberries,Tayberries and similar hybrid berries.

Cut back blackberry runners if not required for layering.

Continue pinching out grape vine shoots.

 
Week N° - 29 15th-21st
Check Gooseberries for gooseberry sawfly.
 
Week N° - 30 22nd-28th

Pears grown as espalier or dwarf pyramids, require pruning to maintain balanced growth.

Support individual branches on heavy cropping Plum trees

 

 

 

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