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July: In the Garden
- Give your plants a mid-season feeding to get them through the fall
- Keep lawns at about 3" to protect from summer heat
- Remember the birds, keep baths and feeders clean
- Do a final pinching of fall blooming flowers like mums and asters
- Divide your iris
- Start fall crops of peas and cole crops
- Time to dig the garlic, onions and potatoes
- Treat yourself to some new potatoes. Carefully loosen the soil under your plants to find a few small potatoes to harvest
- Check fruit trees for water sprouts (branches growing straight up from limbs) and remove
- Prune summer flowering shrubs as soon as the blossoms fade
- Hold off on planting trees and shrubs until fall, if you transplant, keep well watered
- Check berries regularly to harvest before the birds do it for you
