To Do:
- Keep up with the weeds. Check your mulch to be sure it’s still thick enough to keep most weeds smothered.
- Keep your sprawling plants under control. Don’t let squash plants escape your plot; keep the tomatoes growing vertically.
- Water as necessary (if less than an inch of rainfall per week).
- Harvest beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, summer squash and early potatoes.
- Plant seeds for cold weather crops for fall harvest: peas, carrots, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts and parsnips.
- Plant another row of beans even as late as the third week in July. Beans can even handle early light frosts…should we get one.
- Harvest the garlic planted the previous Fall. Harvest when bottom leaves die and about 5 leaves are still left at the top. Cure in a warm, dry airy location, out of the sun. Keep tops and roots attached.
