Things to do in JULY

COOL & TEMPERATE

VEGIES

Winter can seem a chilly time to be outdoors, but the cold weather brings benefits as it reduces pest numbers and encourages deciduous productive plants to form good flowers and fruit.

For a productive but trouble-free vegie patch over winter, concentrate on fast croppers like snow peas and Asian greens along with more traditional crops such as English spinach and lettuce. Keep everything growing well with organic liquid fertiliser applied weekly.

Broad beans will flower and fruit once the coldest winter weather is over. In cold zones there’s still