JULY

• Arrange scented plants in pots on patio or terrace
• Consider colour theme borders
• Continue programme of dead heading
• Feed and water summer bedding
• Attend regularly to container-grown plants
• Dry herbs and flowers for decorative use
• Harvest onions and shallots
• Clean up strawberry beds
• Summer prune fruit trees
• Continue successional sowings of vegetables
• Propagate by layering
• Lift spring bulbs