This is my personal growing calendar for Perth conditions during the month of July.
The main calendar page is here and explains why I am doing this and what you can expect.
Conditions:
Just as cold as June with maximums in the high teens. Rainfall will keep everything more than sufficiently wet.
Plant:
- artichokes (globe)
- asparagus
- beans – runner, french and broad
- beetroot
- berries – logan, black and blue
- bok choi
- borrage
- brocoli
- brussel sprouts
- cabbages
- capsicums
- carrots, wide variety
- cauliflowers
- chard
- curry leaf
- kale
- lavender
- leaf beets
- leaf mustard
- leeks
- lemon grass
- lettuce
- mint
- mizuna green and red
- mustard greens
- nasturtium flowers
- onions
- pak choy
- peas
- rosemary
- rhubarb
- rocket
- sage
- silverbeet
- snow peas
- spinach
- strawberry – temptation
- wormwood
Harvest:
- salad greens
My star performers:
- potatoes
- snow peas
My strugglers:
- Everything in my Mediterranean herb patch as it is not getting enough sun
Jobs:
- Check for areas of soil that experience run off and treat with wetta-soil type product.
- If you are on a 3 month feed cycle for your citrus do so now with a very large dose of dynamic lifter or other blood and bone product.
Don’t:
- fertilise dormant plants like chilis
- over water
- plant
- chilis
- citrus
- tomatoes
Nursery seedlings (that caught the eye):
- artichokes (globe)
- asparagus
- beans – runner, french and broad
- beetroot
- berries – logan, black and blue
- bok choi
- borrage
- brussel sprouts
- cabbages
- capsicums
- carrots, wide variety
- cauliflowers
- chard
- chili peppers (I would wait until spring)
- aneheim
- cayenne
- jalapeno
- thai
- curry leaf
- garlic (but too late in my opinion
- kale
- lavender
- leeks
- lemons (wait for spring I say)
- lemon grass
- lettuce
- mint
- mizuna green and red
- mustard greens
- nasturtium flowers
- onion – wide variety
- pak choy
- peas
- perpetual spinach
- rosemary
- rhubarb
- rocket
- sage
- silverbeet
- snow peas
- spinach
- strawberry – temptation
- tomatoes – cherry, sweet, roma (wait till spring I say)
- wormwood