produce butterfly milkweed , harvesting garden produce often , and keeping container plantings watered are some of the horticulture activity for this calendar month .
Butterfly weed ( Asclepias tuberosa ) is not a grass at all ( a plant out of place that you do n’t want in your garden ) . Better common name are butterfly or orange milkweed , as it is in the milkweed family , has orangish flowers in mid to late summer , and attracts butterflies . Other benefit are that it is hardy , low maintenance , good in rainwater garden as well as drought and dry soil , support deer , and the leaves feed monarch butterfly larvae . For all these understanding it was diagnose the Perennial Plant of the Year for 2017 .
Harvest Lycopersicon esculentum , zucchini , bean plant , and other fruiting crops frequently to encourage continued production . get rid of any yield that have travel by unless you ’re in competition for the biggest zucchini ! You do n’t require theplant to produce mature seedsbecause that will signal that it ’s sentence to decelerate down fruit production .
Check container - grown plants ofttimes , and water as necessary to keep the soil moist . Soil can dry out very quickly , especially in small containers and those made of clay . Hanging handbasket , especially those lined with sphagnum moss or coir ( the rocky sunburn fabric made of coconut husk fiber ) , also dry out out daily when industrial plant are mature . If you buy a basket already planted or did n’t contain water absorbing gels at planting , scratch up some in the surface now . you’re able to feel these at many thoroughgoing garden stores . They halt much water supply , loose it to the plant over time .
During menses of frequent rain , food are washed out of the soil of container plants . Many of the newerannual flowersare raised , and bred , to need high birthrate . Give them a Venus’s curse of smooth fertilizer to keep them producing blossom for the residuum of the time of year . Add a diluted Pisces the Fishes emulsion- or seaweed - based fertiliser to the urine each clip you water , or a synthetic liquid state or slow - passing plant food according to label direction .
Checktomato plantsfor large , greenish - striped horned caterpillar . A few can cause lots of legal injury , so hand pick and destroy them when found . Spray the organic pesticide B.t . ( Bacillus thuringiensis ) to control large infestations .
Protect your squash vine from the squash vine bore bit . These clear - winged moth lie in their eggs on the stems and the hatching larvae bore into the vines , make the plant to wilt and possibly choke . Apply the constitutional pesticide B.t . every 3 or 4 day during July and early August to kill hatch larvae before they enter the stems . A fragile bed of wood ash tree or moth geek scattered around plants may discourage eggs laying .
If these do n’t work on the squash vine borer , slit the vine root where it is wilting and back until you retrieve the alimentation eats . bump off and put down it , then bury the last of the vine so that hopefully it will root and resume growth .
Strawberries , raspberries , blackberries , cherries , and other fresh , very perishable yield should be kept refrigerated and not washed until serving time . Green vegetables , however , such as Brassica oleracea italica , peas , and attic , as well as beet and Daucus carota sativa , should be washed before storing in the icebox .
Leonard Perry , UVM Horticulturistand Charlie Nardozzi , Garden Consultant
7/1/18
Charlie Nardozzi is a nationally know horticulturist , author , gardening consultant , and garden coach ( CharlieNardozzi.com ) . Distribution of this outlet is made possible by University of Vermont and Green Works — the Vermont Nursery and Landscape Association .
