Monthly tips are categorized by To-Dos, What to Plant, or Pests and Diseases. Scroll through the list to see items in each category. Also, refer to our list of tips useful for any month.
To-Dos: July
Bee Swarms
Blueberries
Clean Up Fallen Fruit
Composting
Container Color Choice
Deadheading
Drip Irrigation
Drought Tip - Irrigate Efficiently
Drought Tip - Laundry to Landscape Irrigation
Drought Tip - Lawns
Drought Tip - No Fertilizer
Drought Tip - Trees Come First during Drought
Drought Tips - Vegetable Gardening
Eliminating Perennial Weeds
Encouraging Dahlia Blooms
Fertilizing Ornamentals During Drought
Firescaping
Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Without a Garden!
Fruit Tree Harvest
Garden Sanitation
Garlic Harvesting
Grass Cycling
Hand Pollinating Squash
Harvesting Oranges
How to Tell if Fruits and Vegetables Are Ready to Pick
Irrigate in Circles and Spirals
Keep Up With Your Vegetable Harvest
Lady Beetle
Lawn Care
Melons
Mulch to Conserve Water
Pinch Your Basil
Pinching Flowers and Herbs
Prevent Fruit Tree Sun Burn
Protect Native Bees
Protecting Fruit
Prune Apricot and Cherry Trees
Save Water and Make Your Plants Happier
Soil Moisture Test
Soil Solarization
Squash
Summer Fruit Tree Pruning
Summer Vegetables
Testing Soil Moisture Depth
Tomato Bottom Scarring
Transplanting Vegetables
Vegetable Garden Check-In
Water Budgeting
Water the Roots, Not the Plants
Watering Hydrophobic Soil
Watering Tomatoes
Watering Trees
Weed Spotlight - Bindweed
Pests and Diseases: July
Ant Control
Birds
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
Bug Patrol
Codling Moth
Cottony Cushion Scale
Fruit Damage
Fungus Gnats
Fusarium Wilt
Giant Whiteflies
Gophers
Healthy Tomatoes
Identifying Beneficial Insects
Pepper Weevil
Rat Management
Rose Care
Spider Mites
Squash Bugs
Squirrel Control
Stink Bugs
Sunscald on Fruits and Vegetables
Today’s Grubs Are Tomorrow’s Beetles
Tomato Hornworm
Tomato Russet Mite
Tomato blossom end rot
Verticillium Wilt
White Butterflies and Green Caterpillars
Whiteflies
What to Plant: July
Blueberries
Chrysanthemums
Don't Plant an Invasive Plant
Kale
Selecting Seeds
Thyme
Tomatillo (Physalis philadelphica)
Vegetable Planting Chart