My Garden in July 2025

1st - 7th July 2025

Peter built the compost bin earlier this year. The compost on the left is ready to be used. I've added some pots of herbs for decoration and in the far right hand corner of the fresh compost we have potatoes growing. I've told Peter to leave them there, we'll eat them when they're ready.

I've sown more basil and parsley seeds to get a supply going. At the moment Peter is stripping the parsley and basil weekly.

The beds really do need thinning out. There are raspberries, cucumbers, chilli's, herbs, melons and pak choi growing in this one.

My pots labelled as 'peas' have turned out to be pumpkins grown from last years' halloween carving. There are 6 of them in here with multiple flowers. I need to thin out the leafs as they're taking over. I also have tomatoes, radish, parsnip, beans and rhubarb growing here. It looks crowded but there is a lot of space for each plant.

The lettuce is shaded by the parsnips, but I don't eat much of it, so it's not a problem. You can see there is actually space in these beds though. The tomatoes are thriving.

After a trip to Witley Court last month I bought myself a grape vine. I'm hoping we can train it under the canopy by the lounge door.

Stephanie's rose has provided us with a 4th flower. There are several more buds and it's lovely to have it in continuous flower.

8th - 15th July

I wish you could smell the sweet peas. I have them growing in pots all around the garden, the scent is very strong.

There will be pumpkins for everyone this year to carve.

I went away for two nights and the sunflowers have come out.

I was advised to grow the melon plants undercover, but due to the summer we've had it looks like I'll be over run with Cantaloupe's soon.

The first of the cucumbers.

There's a glut of tomatoes. Every plant in the back and front garden either has green tomatoes to ripen or is full of flower heads.

16th - 23rd July

I'm harvesting the parsnips as I need them, they are so sweet.

The strawberries are finished and I think the raspberries are coming to an end.

The cucumbers are really juicy, the figs lovely and soft and there were some surprise radishes.

I've made some space in the raised beds by hanging the cantaloupe melons over the sides to grow so I can plant some more basil and parsley as we're eating a lot of it in salads and with fish.

24th - 31st July

We're away now for a week and on our return we will be making a border in the front garden and sifting through all this soil to level the front lawn out a bit and provide more soil for our hedge to grow in.

 How is your garden doing this July?