July is here, and while it may be cold and quiet in the garden, it’s far from dormant. This is one of the most important months for planning, pruning, and preparing for the spring rush. Whether you’re working in flower beds, the veggie patch, or simply protecting your green space from winter’s bite, there’s plenty to do.
Let’s dig into your July gardening checklist—with top product picks from Grow Folk to make the most of your winter work.
🌹 July is Pruning Month
Pruning is the name of the game in July. Here’s how to keep your garden in tip-top shape:
For Roses
- Prune towards the end of July or early August.
- Treat bare stems with a fungicide/insecticide combo to kill off any lurking pests and spores.
- Try: Efekto Rosecare 3 – ideal for protecting pruned roses.
- Try: Efekto Rosecare 3 – ideal for protecting pruned roses.
- Feed with your favourite rose food and top up with mulch, being careful to keep stems clear.
- Try: Vita Grow Organic Fertilizer 5kg – a gentle option that boosts growth.
- Try: Vita Grow Organic Fertilizer 5kg – a gentle option that boosts growth.
- Water weekly, early in the morning.
Other Plants to Prune:
- Early July: Deciduous fruit trees, vines, and bushes while dormant.
- Not yet!: Semi-hardy shrubs like Hibiscus, Gardenia, and Duranta—wait until after the frost risk passes in September.
- Spring bloomers: Don’t prune until flowering is done.
- Climbers: Trim woody bits on autumn-flowering varieties.
- Perennials & Grasses: Cut back Bergamot, Salvias, Catmint, and Echinacea now.
❄️ Winter Garden Protection
Frost can be sneaky! Protect your sensitive plants with:
- Frost Cover (by the metre or pre-packed) – shields down to -3°C while letting in light and moisture.
- Try: Agryl Frost Protection Fleece – essential for winter defence.
- Try: Agryl Frost Protection Fleece – essential for winter defence.
Water early in the day so the soil has time to warm up. Don’t forget to mulch, deadhead winter blooms, and feed fortnightly with a liquid fertiliser like:
- Nutrifeed by Starke Ayres – for all-round nourishment.
🌼 Add Colour with Winter Annuals
Revive those winter beds, baskets, and containers with bold annuals like:
- Pansy
- Viola
- Calendula
- Snapdragons
- Ornamental Kale
Pick regularly to encourage blooms, and apply a foliar feed every two weeks. Grow Folk stocks a rotating range of winter-flowering seedlings, perfect for a quick pop of colour.
🍊 In the Veggie Garden
- Prepare beds for spring. Add Earthworm Castings or compost to enrich your soil.
- Sow more cabbage, lettuce, Asian greens, Swiss chard, radish and carrots.
- Final call for sowing peas.
- Plant new deciduous fruit trees and asparagus crowns now.
- Watch out for aphids on brassicas—spray with an Organic Insecticide.
- Water deeply once a week and fertilise leafy greens with 6:3:4 or 8:1:5.
🌳 Garden Maintenance Tasks
- Weed while it’s easy to spot them.
- Sharpen and repair tools—don’t put it off till spring.
- Install water features or sort out paving and retaining walls.
- Plan and implement water-saving strategies like rainwater harvesting for the dry months ahead.
🐦 Feed the Birds
Winter can be harsh on your feathered friends. Keep feeders stocked and bird baths clean and topped up. Check out our bird care blog series for expert tips.
🌿 Indoor Plant TLC
Bring the garden inside with Grow Folk’s range of indoor plants and stylish pots.
- Water less during the cold season.
- Feed flowering plants every two weeks with a mild liquid fertiliser.
- Orchids in bloom? Use a half-strength orchid food once a week.
July is for Garden Dreaming
While the pace slows, the garden still calls. Take time this July to dream, plan, prune, and prep. Whether you’re planting, feeding, or fixing, we’ve got the tools, advice, and organic solutions to help you grow better—all year round.
👉 Explore everything you need at Grow Folk
Products GF:
Raise awareness and product education:
Insect Frass Natural Fertiliser and Pesticide
Will share an infographic we are working on, if you want to take some additional info from there…
Products to check out:
Mushroom Grow Bags Autoclavable With Filter Patch
Mushroom Grow Bags Autoclavable With Filter Patch And Injection Port
Mole Claw Trap
Washable Pre Panel Filter 600 x 600 x 50MM
Ninja Goldfish Plant Wash – Defense & Health
Last chance, few left!
Winter bulbs and potatoes ready to plant now!!
Seed Potato Valor – Pack of 7 Tubers
Seed Potato Mondial – Pack of 7 Tubers
Lilium Oriental Trumpet ‘Robina’ – Pack of 3 Bulbs
Lilium Asiflorum Yellow – Pack of 5 Bulbs
Lilium Asiflorum Pink – Pack of 5 Bulbs
Lilium Asiatic Yellow – Pack of 5 Bulbs
Lilium Asiatic White – Pack of 5 Bulbs
Lilium Asiatic Orange – Pack of 5 Bulbs
Lilium Asiatic Orange Red – Pack of 5 Bulbs
Lilium Asiatic Assorted – Pack of 8 Bulbs
Ranunculus – Mixed – Regular – Pack of 50 bulbs
