This Month in Your Garden - July

Gardening requires lots of water, most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson

Scorching days in June and earlier months have meant a regime of constant watering for many gardeners. Planting in containers, pots and hanging baskets calls for making sure they also don’t dry out, while you remember the tomato plants in the greenhouse and the vegetables in that rather dry plot. But when is best to water, morning or evening?

The Lawncare Guide - July

For the avoidance of drought

It’s sorrowful. You’ve worked hard on the lawn with a firm regime of aerating, scarifying, cutting and collecting or mulching with the cutting deck or mower at precisely the right height – going by the book. You’ve treated for weeds and moss and given the grass good feed and fertiliser.

Lawn Care: Questions & Answers

Q. We treated the lawn with a weed and feed mix earlier in the year but now we have weeds popping up again. What can we do, should we weed and feed again?

The Vegetable Plot - July

If you’ve got the thyme…

There’s nothing more satisfying or mouth-watering than harvesting home-grown veg when it’s your own grown crop. Beetroot and tender carrot, fiery radishes in cool salads, broad beans, runner beans, garlic, cucumber, lettuce, aubergine and courgette flower.

The Big Glut Recipe - July

BURRATA WITH MARINATED COURGETTES AND AUBERGINES

From Homes & Gardens as a first course or a light lunch served with tomato bruschetta

Serves 6.

Ingredients

• 2 medium courgettes (about 300g) 
• 1 aubergine (about 300g)
• Olive oil, enough for frying and drizzling
• Small bunch of mint
• 1 red chilli, finely chopped
• 1–2tbsp best-quality red-wine vinegar (Volpaia, Forum or Unio Cabernet Sauvignon are all excellent)
• 6 balls of burrata (or mozzarella)