Provided is a list of tasks you must perform in your garden during July. Please understand your gardening zone which is identified in the menu above. Look for Hardiness Zones.
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Early Summer tips for the vegetable garden
EARLY SUMMER TIPS FOR THE VEGETABLE GARDEN
Mulching, staking, pest and disease control, and succession planting are some of the early season tips for vegetable gardens.
Reduce the weeds in...
Harvesting Produce and other July Gardening Tips
Growing butterfly milkweed, harvesting garden produce often, and keeping container plantings watered are some of the gardening activities for this month.
Butterfly weed (Asclepias tube...
Snapdragon — 2019 Annual Flower of the Year
Each year the National Garden Bureau (ngb.org/year-of) names plants of the year, with the annual flower (lives only one year) for 2019 being snapdragon. This upright flower is easy t...
AGERATUM Mexican Ageratum (Floss flower), Annual Flower
Where to plant. Blue flowers are rather rare among annuals. This is one of the reasons for the great popularity of the Ageratum houstonianum (mexicanum). The flowers are dainty and feathery, ofte...
Plant care for Sweet Alyssum, Annual Flower
SWEET ALYSSUM
(Name derived from a-not lyssa, rage a myth relates that the plant dispels anger)
The Sweet Alyssum is one of our most beloved white edging plants. Seed catalogs list...
Plant care for Arctotis, Annual Flower Information
ARCTOTIS Bushy Arctotis
(Blue-eyed-African-daisy)
(Name derived from arklos-a bear, ous-an ear; refers to shaggy fruit)
The lovely daisylike flowers of Arclolis grandis are u...
Plant care for Argemone – Prickle poppy (Mexican poppy) (Devils-fig), Annual Flower Information
ARGEMONE Prickle poppy (Mexican poppy) (Devils-fig)
(Name derived from argema, a cataract of the eye; refers to supposed medicinal properties)
These prickly-leafed, white and yellow...
Plant care for Artemisia Wormwood, Annual Flower Information
ARTEMISIA Wormwood
(Named for Artemisia, the wife of the mythological Mausolus)
One species of Artemisia, A. sacrorum, is annual. It is also called Russian Wormwood (Summerfir). The...
Plant care for Browallia (Amethyst), Annual Flower Information
BROWALLIA (Amethyst)
(An interesting story is told of the naming of the Browallia. Linnaeus was greatly pleased and elated with the ability of Bishop Browall as a botanist and accordingly ...