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Ashill & Holme Hale Garden ClubWebsite: ashillgardeningclub.wordpress.com/Email: ashillholmehalegardenclub@gmail.comEnjoy Your Blooming HarvestWhile the gardening club is currently not able to holdmonthly meetings we are providing gardening advicevia newsletters and our website (address above) tokeep everyone active with gardening tasks. The RHSwebsite (rhs.org.uk/) is also a good source of jobsyou should do each month in your garden, as is theBBC’s Gardeners World on a Friday evening on BBC2.Summer is a time to enjoy your garden with manyflowers in bloom and your vegetable garden startingto provide you with lovely home grown produce.Gardening jobs for July and early AugustVegetables, Fruits & Herbs:• Check your fruit trees such as apples, pears andplums after the June drop, where trees naturallydiscard excess fruit. However, it may still be necessaryto thin small fruits further to improve the size andquality of remaining fruit. Ideally no more that twofruits per stem.• Continue to provide a high potassium feed once aweek to your tomatoes as theybegin to ripen on their trusses.A good watering twice a weekis usually suffice unless very hotweather. From mid-July onwardsyou should be harvesting ripetomatoes to enjoy.• If you have not already, now is the time to harvestautumn planted garlic. Ease bulbs gently out of soilso as not to damage basal plate so they will storewell. Later this month your autumn planted onionsets should also be ready to harvest once you seefoliage turn yellow. Place them in a dry sunny spot toallow them to ripen.• First early potatoes should have been harvested bynow. These do not store well so enjoy them whenthey are in good condition. By the end of July your2nd early potatoes (e.g. Charlottes) should be aboutready to harvest.• If you want salad leaves all summer through youneed to successionally sow seeds about every twoweeks to keep a good supply ready to eat. In additionto lettuces why not try some oriental leaves likeMizuna or Mustard or the peppery flavoured wildRocket.• Now is a good time to sow turnips, spring cabbage,fennel and autumn/winter salad crops.Trees Shrubs and Flowers:• If you have newly planted trees keep them regularlywatered about once a week.• To encourage more blooms on repeat floweringroses prune off faded heads regularly. With rosesthat flower only once, leave them unpruned if youwant colourful rosehips later.• For late season colour, plant autumn floweringbulbs such as Nerine, Colchicum and Sternbergia.• Increase your stocks of evergreen shrubs, treesand conifers, as well as hardy climbers by takingsemi-ripe cuttings. These can be taken from July toearly autumn from growth that has begun to hardenat the base.• Wisteria is best pruned twice a year to controlits size and promote flowering. Summer prune byshortening long, whippy, current-season growth tofive or six leaves, or roughly the length of your forearm.Wildlife Gardening:•To stop birds getting caught and injured in netting,such as that over soft-fruit, make sure it is taut, wellsecured and checked regularly.• If you have a wildlife pond do not worry aboutremoving every last pond weed. Around 25-35 openwater is optimum. Many pond creatures actuallybenefit from a vegetation layer for protection,hunting and breeding.Swaffham PlayersSwaffham Players have not been idle during thelockdown! To keep everyone engaged and in touchwe have been running weekly play readings by Skype.This has given us the chance to explore new materialand styles of drama, and for some of our backstageexperts to perform in character.This has led us to explore the worlds of podcastingand web design, and we hope soon to have a vibrantnew online presence.Of course we’re excited about the the Town Council’spurchase of the Barn Theatre, and we aim to beinvolved as far as possible. Still, the project willprobably take some time to bear fruit. Nor is it clearhow long it will be before any theatres at all will beable to resume live performances.So in the meantime we are hoping that the chanceof recording audio drama in a COVID-safe way,and accessing online training materials aimed atbeginners, will encourage new recruits to join us aswe journey back to the magic of the theatre.Watch this space: we’re bouncing back!18
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