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WHAT TO DO NOW

50 things to do this month from the Gardeners’ World team

We love July

July is an island floating between the joy of June and the slightly fatigued month of August. It’s a grown-up month: the year has shrugged off its adolescent exuberances, the weather is (hopefully) warm enough for ice cream to be one of your five a day, the sea should be swimmable without (too much) danger of hypothermia and thoughts will be of holiday shenanigans and family barbecues. School’s out this month, the next tranche of glorious summer colour is washing across our borders and it’s my birthday. Lots of reasons to give three rousing cheers for July!

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The Full Monty

Money can buy you the world’s most wonderful garden, but not horticultural happiness. For that, all you need is a little space, some plants and plenty of passion, says Monty

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The view from your side of the fence

Over the fence

Should artificial lights be banned from the garden?

Digging deeper

Putting the spotlight on the biggest issues in gardening today

2 for 1 Gardens

Literary legends

Container of the month

Brighten up a garden corner with fiery red and orange blooms, and contrasting strappy foliage

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YOUR PRUNING MONTH

Now, at the height of summer, Frances Tophill shows how to boost your plants’ health and productivity with a timely cut

Nature knows best

plants for places

The dry and mighty garden

dry-garden success

Greening up a city balcony

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Secrets of a COLOURFUL GARDEN

Buildings and landscapes can play a vital role in supercharging your space, as Nick Bailey demonstrates

Bite-sized bounties

PART 3

Hassle-free harvests

Flowers are out in abundance this month and for Jack Wallington, many of these blooms make delicious, low-effort pickings

Growing guide

Sow these crops now, including herbs, roots and

Your wildlife month

July is all about the babies: lemon-washed blue tits calling to their parents from trees, sparrow chicks lined up on fences with gaping beaks, speckle-chested robins sheltering from predators. What will all these chicks eat? Right now, they need caterpillars, earthworms, aphids and other invertebrates, along with their eggs and larvae. They’ll find these on plants, and in leaf litter, lawns, log piles and open compost heaps. Later, berries and seeds will take centre stage, with rowan, holly, hawthorn and ivy helping birds through to the spring. The number of baby birds depends, partly, on what you grow and how you grow it. You might spot parents teaching chicks how to use feeders, but to truly care for new lives, provide as much natural food as possible. What will you plant now that will sustain these chicks into adulthood?

AROUND THE GARDEN

STEP BY STEP Pot on young perennials Keep

FLOWERS

Keep rambling roses under control Aim to train

BACK TO BASICS

Add butterfly-friendly plants Use a large container, at

ADAM’S ESSENTIALS

Feed your crops Only feed plants that have

GREENHOUSE

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FRUIT AND VEG

Look after sweetcorn Water sweetcorn in dry weather,

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Q&A

This month 139 Gardeners’ Question Time The BBC

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Crossword

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