Here are some top growing tips from Hill Side Herbs for June.
Sow seeds for vegetables, salads, and herbs
Plant out tender seedlings with confidence, now that danger of frost has passed
Weed ruthlessly and water regularly to give young plants their best possible chance
Net peas, cabbages and fruit bushes against hungry birds
Keep a careful watch for slugs, snails, blackfly, cabbage white caterpillars, carrot fly and other harmful insects
*Ripening strawberries can be pampered with a bed of soft straw. It will protect them from getting dirtied by rain splashing up from wet soil and may also help to deter slugs.
Here is a list of 17 vegetables, 4 salads and 3 fruits you can harvest in June:
Veg:
Swiss Chard/Spinach Beet
Turnips
Cauliflowers
Asparagus
Broad Beans
Garlic
Globe Artichokes
Beetroot
Onions
Spinach
Peas
Florence Fennel
Kohl Rabi
Carrots
Rhubarb
Broccoli
Salads:
Spring Onions
Radishes
Salad Leaves
Fruit:
Gooseberries
Cherries
Sowing your seeds in June reduces danger of frost and it is possible to sow your seeds outside!
Vegetable seeds to sow outside:
Broccoli
Carrots
Courgettes and summer Squashes
Florence Fennel
French Beans
Kale
Kohl Rabi
Marrows
Oriental Leaves
Peas
Pumpkins and winter squashes
Runner Beans
Swedes
Swiss Chard
Turnips
Salad seeds to sow outside:
Cucumbers
Endives
Lettuces
Radishes
Salad leaves
Spring onions
Vegetables to plant out:
Brussels Sprouts
Cabbages
Cauliflowers
Celeriac
Chilli Peppers
Courgettes and summer Squashes
French beans
Kale
Leeks
Marrows
Pumkins
Runner Beans
Broccoli
Sweet Potatoes
Sweet Peppers
Sweetcorn
Salads to plant out:
Chicory
Cucumbers
Endives
Tomatoes
Fruit to plant out:
Melons
Strawberries
Weeding tips:
Don’t let weeds flower or they will generate a new crop of seeds
Hoe when its dry so that severed and uprooted weeds die quickly
Loosen soil thoroughly so that when you dig up roots you leave nothing behind
If the soil is damp collect up and dispose of any remains to ensure that they don’t re grow
Don’t put perennial weeds on to your compost heap
Use lightproof membrane mulches to kill established weeds
Spread surface mulches to suppress the growth of new seeds
Use chemicals systemic weed killers as a last resort
Jobs for June!
Water
Mulch
Check nets
Feed Tomatoes
Earth up potatoes
Build supports for climbing beans
Cut down broad beans and peas
Feed asparagus
Summer-Prune herbs
Pot strawberry runners
Remove raspberry suckers
Tie in blackberries and hybrid berries
Thin out apples and pears
Twice thin plumbs
Tie in and thin peaches
Summer-prune figs
We are extremely interested in seeing your gardens, vegetables plots and plants so get sending in your pictures! We would like to read some of your stories and any good ideas you have for recipies!! Send them in via our facebook page or twitter!
You will find us at:
Hillside Herbs
23 Jasmine Rd,
Kates Hill
Dudley
DY2 7NL
01384 816710/ Jenny Cadman 07702820175