Vegetable Seeds to Sow in June
June is the time for berry harvests like strawberry, Loganberry & summer raspberries.
It’s also the month to care for your plants, like try making a watering schedule or add a support structure to peas, beans, tomatoes or cucumbers.
There is still plenty of vegetables and flowers to sow in June.
If I had to choose one vegetable and one flower to sow this month it would be Chard and Cosmos.
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Sowing in the Greenhouse – June
Sow Winter Cabbage
If you love the wrinkled leaves of Savoy Cabbage, you can grow your own cabbages! Sow in June as they have a long growing season to harvest in Dec to March.
Sow Kohl Rabi
Kohl Rabi is an alien looking vegetable but is actually a German turnip. It is great sliced and fried in garlic butter or eaten raw, it tastes like cabbage. Why not give it a try?
Sow Mange Tout Peas
Mange Tout Peas are flat pods which can be eaten raw, sautéed or stir fried. The flowers equal the delight of sweet peas and brighten up the vegetable garden instantly. If you like the cottage garden feel, try sowing Mange Tout this year.
Jobs To Do in June
Create a Watering Schedule
Summer is here and so is the heat stress, plants can suffer if their watering is not consistent. Create a Watering Schedule and stick it to your fridge. Every time you water add the date you watered. This way the watering is kept up to date with no effort.
Support Plants
Peas and climbing and runner beans need support. As do cucumbers, tomatoes, aubergine me mini melons in the greenhouse.
Add your supporting bamboo canes before the plant is falling on the floor.
Peas like to cling to netting and beans prefer something to clamber up like a bean pole.
Check for Pests
May and June are the months when pests are hatching and looking for something to eat like new seedlings.
Get out into the garden and check your plants backs of leaves for Blackfly (pictured), greenfly, whitefly or caterpillars.
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Here’s the Veg Garden in June
My first Tomato of the year!
The first Tomato is forming in the greenhouse from a bush variety called Lizzano F1. It has been planted in the growbag waterers for consistent watering.
Peas ‘Telephone’ are shooting up
Peas have been sown directly into the soil under the jute netting of the Pea Wall. I’m hoping for 2 meter tall peas so they might make it to the kitchen this year.
Mini Melons have Germinated
It’s our second year of growing Mini melons. This year I have a baby water melon and an heirloom cantaloupe mini melon. Can’t wait to see them grow!
First Strawberry is Ready for Harvest!
Our first Strawberry of the year is ready for harvest from last years plants bought from the garden centre. This year we bought bare root plants from Sutton Seeds and only planted them in April, they are already flowering so fingers crossed for strawberries on the new plants too!
Elephant Garlic Scapes
All Hardneck garlic including Elephant Garlic will send up flower spikes called Scapes. Cut them off and chop and fry them in butter so there’s no waste. This will move the plants energy into the bulb to finish growing.
Onions from Seed Fattening up
Onions are finally fattening up after the rain fall, we all needed in our gardens. Once your bulbs start swelling, they will need more water to get larger. Water once a week.
Harvests in June
What I Harvested in 2024
Find out what was happening in the greenhouse and raised beds in my June update.
Radish, Lettuce & Peas
Radish, Lettuce and Peas are a few of the vegetables you could be harvesting in June.
Mini Cucumbers & Loganberries
Mini Cucumbers daily and masses of Loganberries to harvest in June. Loganberries tend to need to be picked all in one go and are very fragile to the touch. They are delicious, if you haven’t had one, it’s a cross between a raspberry & and blackberry.
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