Highlights from our Vegetable Garden – 25 June 2023

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I thought I’d share some highlights of our family Vegetable Garden this week and it’s all about the flowers and the fruit and our first courgette of the year.

Courgette Piccolo F1

Vegetable Garden Highlights

Vegetables and Fruits Flowering in June

  • Courgettes
  • Pumpkins
  • Sweetcorn
  • Sweet & chilli peppers
  • Peas
  • French beans
  • Strawberries

Vegetables & fruit that are forming baby forms in June

  • Pumpkins,
  • Courgettes,
  • Petty pan – summer squash
  • Tomatoes
  • Chilli peppers
  • Broccoli
  • Blackberries

Vegetables & fruit being harvested in June

  • Cucumbers
  • Courgettes
  • Strawberries
  • Peas
  • Radish
  • Spinach
  • Lettuce – green and red
  • Kohl Rabi
Pumpkin Flower with a bee
Baby Pumpkin starting to grow
Petty Pan (baby squash) starting to grow
Courgette Piccolo ready for harvest
Kohl Rabi almost ready
Chilli pepper forming
Mini munch cucumbers harvested
Large poppy flower with hover fly
Our biggest strawberry so far
Italian ridged tomatoes starting to form
Pea ‘Rosakrone‘ pink and white flowers
Bee on cornflower

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