July Timeline
Here’s what I sowed, grew and harvested in July.
July 2024 Weather Statistics in East England, UK
- Daylight Hours in UK: 15 & a half hours a day.
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- No of Rainy Days: 8
- No of Sunny/cloudy Days: 23
- Average Temperature: 21 degrees Centigrade high and 13 average Low temperature.
Here is what I sowed, growed and harvested in July:
Sowings Timeline – July
Weekend 1 – 7 July 24
Mini Melon ‘Minnesota Midget’ flowering in the unheated greenhouse.- Courgette ‘Summer Holiday F1’ (a yellow stripy ball courgette) forming tiny yellow courgette balls.
Tomatoes ‘Cherrola F1’ started to change colour in the unheated greenhouse.
Broad Beans ‘Eleonora’ last of pods Harvested. Plants removed from soil.
Onions ‘Hercules F1’ started to fatten up and stand above the ground.- Still Harvesting –
Cucumber ‘Piccolino F1 Mini’.
Weekend 8 – 14 July
- Squash ‘Jester F1’ x 2 planted into Raised Bed 1 in amongst the garlic and tomatoes.
- Sweet Pepper ‘Napia’ red – HARVEST!
- Courgette ‘Zephyr’ x 2 – baby courgettes forming on plants in containers.
Peach ‘Inka’ x 6 – HARVEST! 
- BlackBerry ‘Loch ness thornless’ – HARVEST!
- Still Harvesting – Blueberry ‘Duke’
- Tomato ‘Cherrola F1’ – HARVEST!
Weekend 15 – 21 July
Build and plant front garden raised flowerbed.- Harvest Lavender plants in front garden.
DISEASE – Powdery Mildew on Courgetteleaves.
Cut & plant Strawberry Runners into separate pots.
PEST – Blackfly on apple leaves.- Tomatoes ‘Tom Thumb’ forming.
- DISEASE – Blossom End Rot on Tomatoes.
Cut off Garlic Scapes.
Weekend 22 – 28 July
Carrot ‘Marion F1’ – HARVEST ! .
Sweetcorn ‘Goldcrest F1’ Top Tassels appear & cobs start to form.- Tomato ‘Cherrola F1’ – HARVEST!
- Courgette ‘Zephyr’ x 2 plants – HARVEST! 2 courgettes!
- Some Onions in pot and Raised Bed 4 tops are folding flat.
- PEST – Cabbage White Butterfly – Tiny green caterpillars and yellow eggs found on Brussels Sprouts plant.
Apples branch snapped under weight of apples on golden delicious- 3 x apples – HARVEST! - Squash ‘Jester F1 – baby squash appeared.
- Mini Melon ‘Minnesota Midget’ – baby melon formed.
Sweet Pepper ‘Tangerine Dream’ changing colour to red.
Weekend 29 July – 31 July
- Continued Harvest of: Mini Cucumbers, Cherry red tomatoes, sweet peppers, blackberries, Lettuce.
- HARVEST –
1st Early Potatoes ‘Casablanca’ – 84 Potatoes from 10 Tubers (5 tubers in each container). - Ball Courgette ‘Summer Holiday F1’ forming balls.
- Mini Melon ‘Minnesota Midget’ forming mini melons.
- HARVEST – Tomatoes ‘Orange Cherry’ planted Outdoors in Raised Bed 1.
- HARVEST – Tomatoes ‘Tiny Tim’ outdoors in pots.
July – Sow, Grow, Harvest – Gallery
Raised Bed 1 – July – Tomatoes, Squash, Lettuce, Garlic.
Raised Bed 2 – July – Onions, Courgettes, Chives, Lettuce.
Raised Bed 3 – Sweetcorn, Pumpkins, French beans & sunflowers.
Raised Bed 4 – Carrots, Parsnips, Onions, Leeks.
Containers – Potatoes
Courgette ‘Zephyr’ in Pots
In the Greenhouse
Mini Melons forming
Harvests
13 Vegetable Articles written in July:
Vegetable Seeds to Sow in July
Vegetable Seeds to Sow in July
Pumpkins, Courgettes & Squash
- Growing Pumpkins – Let’s Get Ready to Ramble
- Courgettes, pumpkins and squash – Male & Female Flowers explained
Pests & Diseases
- 5 Symptoms that your Plant is feeling Stressed and How to make them feel better.
- Operation Brussels Sprouts to the dinner plate – Dealing with Cabbage White butterfly & Caterpillars.
July Harvest
Sweet Peppers
Tomatoes
Our Fruit Garden
Sweetcorn
July – Videos
- Part 5 – How to Harvest a Sweet Pepper (rams horn type)
- Part 7 – How to Harvest a Tomato
- Strawberries – How to Multiply your number of Strawberry Plants next year.
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