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July

• Finalize your plan for a Fall vegetable garden.  Some planting begins this month.
• Pick off and destroy tomatoes affected with blossom end rot, a non-parasitic disorder.  Control by providing an even moisture supply, using mulch, and avoiding excess nitrogen.
• Remove water sprouts (vertical sprouts from major branches and the trunk) and suckers (sprouts from the roots) that appear in fruit trees.
• Hot dry weather can cause a bitter flavor in cucumbers.  Keep plants watered and mulched for the rest of the summer.
• Keep beans, tomatoes, peppers, okra, cucumbers, and squash picked to encourage further production.

August

• Dry bulb onions are ready to harvest when most of the tops have fallen over and the necks have shriveled.  Pull and dry for two to four weeks in a location out of direct sun.
• Apple harvest begins for fresh eating apples like Redfree and continues through October with apples such as Winesap and Rome.
• Try to finish seeding beets, kohlrabi, kale, Swiss chard, turnips and bush beans in early August and seed leaf lettuce and spinach by late August.  Complete planting broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower transplants in mid-August.
• Strawberries should receive 1” to 1.5 inches of water per week during dry periods in August and September.  This will help fruit-bud formation for the following year and increase yields.
• To reduce potential insect and disease problems, prune and destroy the current fruiting canes of raspberries and blackberries after harvest.