Thyme To Garden - July 2019

[ABSpareEditor]

Last month's thread is here.

Summer has officially arrived! With increased heat and light throughout the day, has your garden workload increased?

[Old_Geezer]

Has here. Been away just over a week and crops, flowers, weeds, and grass overpowering. My tomatoes are getting crowded out of light, and they struggle anyway as I've no greenhouse so they're coping outside.

[woofgang]

My watering schedule has! the roses have been fabulous and are readying for a second flush and the jasmine, honeysuckle and nicotiana makes the evenings smell like paradise.

[Tilly2]

My white climbing rose bush was ruined by all the rain we had earlier in June. All the flowers went pink and then brown and I have deadheaded thit as the flowers have died off. It now looks scraggly and forlorn. When is the earliest time I can prune it right back?

[woofgang]

Tilly do it now and coddle it and you will probably get another flush of blooms

[Tilly2]

Shall I cut it right back, Woofy?

[Chipchopper]

Since being out of action for a while, much of the garden work has taken a back seat this year.
Some of the basic tasks have been done by much appreciated friends and neighbors. The upshot is that I've noticed a marked increase of wildlife (flora & fauna) coming in, so this new relaxed approach has lent itself to my main aim of gardening to enhance wildlife and sit back and watch the show unfold, as I pour a tall glass of G & T.