Tag: June

  • How to Water Vegetable Plants in a Heatwave

    How to Water Vegetable Plants in a Heatwave

    Plant stress is a real thing and in a heatwave, plants will need water otherwise there is a threat of withering. Plants can survive no water to some extent but they are not miracle workers. No water along with other factors such as extreme heat or how dry the soil was to start with can…

  • What shall I Sow or Plant next in Raised Beds at End June to July?

    What shall I Sow or Plant next in Raised Beds at End June to July?

    In the vegetable garden at the end of June, there is a real moment of what shall I do next? Some of the early and leafy vegetable harvests have finished, garlic has been dug up and it’s time to clear the plants. But what do I plant next? End of June to July is the…

  • The Best Berry for Big Harvests

    The Best Berry for Big Harvests

    I announce the best producing and best value berry you could be growing in your garden – The Loganberry. It started with one vine and now grows three vines every year bursting with dark red fruit than looks like a longer raspberry. It is incredible value for money and never disappoints with its harvest. What…

  • Vegetables Seeds to Sow in June

    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,…

  • What I have been Sowing, Growing & Harvesting in June 2024

    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…

  • June Harvest – Lettuce, Radish, Broad Beans, Cucumbers, Logan Berries, Blueberries.

    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…

  • Sow French Beans to fill the gaps in your Vegetable beds in June

    By June, most of your vegetables are happily growing in their final spaces in your vegetable beds. You may have a few spaces, where a quick crop of radishes has finished or there is space between other vegetables because they haven’t spread out yet and to fill all your soil space, you could squeeze something…

  • Part 6 – How to Harvest your Broad Bean Pods with Video + FREE PDF Timeline

    Part 6 – How to Harvest your Broad Bean Pods with Video + FREE PDF Timeline

    It’s been a great year for Broad Beans! If you have grown them for the first time this year and followed my FREE PDF Broad Bean Growing Checklist, you’ll know that they should be ready for harvesting about Mid June onwards. What do Broad Bean pods look like when they are ready to harvest? The…

  • Our Fruit Garden – Berries, apple, pear, peach Miniature trees in June.

    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…

  • 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…