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Vegetables Seeds to Sow in June
June, July and August in the UK is the Summer season. June is the month for first fruit and vegetables harvests and finally some sun and heat which will suddenly boost your plants growth. Any seeds you sow in June will germinate quickly so it’s worth sowing seeds in the soil directly. Try peas, beans,…
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What I have been Sowing, Growing & Harvesting in June 2024
Here’s the end of the month round up of what I have been Sowing, Growing and Harvesting in June. In the UK, June 2024 has been quite summery with 25 days out of 30 being sunny or cloudy. Temperature on average has been 19 degrees centigrade. Until the heatwave of 4 days at the end…
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June Harvest – Lettuce, Radish, Broad Beans, Cucumbers, Logan Berries, Blueberries.
June is the month for Harvests and this year is no exception. Here are the harvests I’ve had this month in the Vegetable Garden. Red ‘Walderman Dark’ Lettuce I absolutely love red lettuce. I love the texture of the leaves, they look like they are bubbling and shiny. The flash of green in the centre…
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Strawberries – My leaves look like lace, what’s eating my strawberry leaves?
It’s June, it’s Strawberry harvesting season, and some pests want to butt into the harvest party like an uninvited guest! The latest pest on our Strawberry plants, have shredded the leaves leaving elongated oval shapes in the leaves. The strawberry leaves look like lace, so let’s look at what might be eating the leaves. Strawberry…
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Our Fruit Garden – Berries, apple, pear, peach Miniature trees in June.
We moved into our house two years ago and all we brought with us was 2 blueberry bushes and a thornless blackberry bush and obviously our furniture and belongings! If you haven’t seen our garden yet, see how it came from nothing to flourishing in my story here – If you Build it, they will…
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Part 5 – How to Care for your Growing Tomatoes
My greenhouse grown tomatoes have been growing strongly although the outdoor grown tomatoes have been sulking a bit with the cold weather in Mid June! Let’s hope we get some sunshine and heat soon to turn these tomatoes red or orange or [insert your colour here]. I am growing: Greenhouse Tomatoes Are growing: Raised Bed…
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Mini Melons – Part 3 – It’s Time to Pot on your Seedlings with Video
I’m growing a Mini Melon variety called Minnesota Midget which is a Cantaloupe orange flesh mini melon. It’s my first time growing Mini melons in my greenhouse this Summer and I am excited to see what they will look and taste like. Early June is the time to pot on your Mini Melons (from an…
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Highlights from our Vegetable Garden – 25 June 2023
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. Vegetable Garden Highlights Vegetables and Fruits Flowering in June Vegetables & fruit that are forming baby forms in June Vegetables & fruit being harvested in June
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June Vegetable Harvest – Lettuce, Peas, Radish and Baby Cucumbers.
It’s the third week in June, the UK has reached nearly 30 degrees centigrade for the first time this year and we are overrun with Lettuce. This year is a good year for Lettuce! Lettuce, lettuce and more lettuce We have 6 fully grown romaine lettuces plus some loose leaf lettuce and it’s lettuce for…
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Lettuce and Pak Choi Harvest in Late May and Early June
This year has been a successful year for Green Lettuce and a poor year for red Lettuce as only one seed germinated. I sowed 3 types of lettuce this year, a romaine green lettuce, a red lettuce and a light green loose leaf lettuce – Black Seeded Simpson. This is the first time I’ve had…
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