July GENERAL: How about installing a drip watering system before your holidays? Feed Roses. Clean the pond filter regularly. If the pond goes green - check that the UV tube is working. VEGETABLES: Check your early potatoes. Earth-up main crop potatoes. Thin out beetroot Runner Beans, Beetroot, Courgette, Calabrese and Lettuce which you sowed in June. Plant pot-raised vegatables. Feeding Tomatoes regularly. FRUIT: Put up protective netting over fruit before the birds take them LAWNS: Feed the grass if needed. BEDDING: Plant autumn crocus. Feed your Hanging Baskets and troughs and keep well watered. Hints