Overview

For an overview of the full year go to my guide to gardening month my month

Jobs: Summer prune your plums and cherries.  We grow organic, except for apples, which we spray for codling moth in Early June and late June, otherwise we loose about 2/3 of the crop!  Once strawberries have finished fruiting root runners to create new plants.

If you are running late or sowing outside almost everything that you sowed in May can be sown in June, but it’s getting a bit late for main crop potatoes and parsnips.

• We like to pot sow a third batch of tomatoes in containers for a late polytunnel harvest in autumn, after we have removed the cordon varieties (which we grow in the ground) from the polytunnel on 5 October to make way for the winter salads/spinach etc.
• We direct sow our last batch of main-crop carrots in early June, to be harvested in late Autumn onwards. Ironically our slower growing winter carrots (Eskimo) were direct sown in May
• Early June is the latest time to module sow your beetroot, to be planted out in July (often after Garlic, Onions and Broad beans in my case) to be harvested for storage in October
• The beginning of June is also a great time to module sow another big batch of loose leaf lettuces, to replace your February sown ones. These will last until the end of summer
• Pot sow your main purple sprouting broccoli crop for a harvest next spring. Plant it out in July with some protection from the heat and butterflies!
• Early June is also the perfect time to pot sow calabrese and Romanesco cauliflower for an autumn crop
• Pot sow a new batch of kale for autumn/winter
• Module sow a few cucumbers, to provide a late crop in the polytunnel/greenhouse
• We like to module sow radicchio in late June, to provide crunch and colour to the winter salad mixes
• Module sow chard and perpetual spinach now for autumn and winter

Gardening Week Newsletters

The gardening week (June - Week 1, 2025)

The gardening week (June - Week 2, 2025)

The gardening week (June - Week 3, 2025)

The gardening week (June - Week 4, 2025)

This is what we harvested this month

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This is what we sowed or planned to sow this month

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If an entry has "planned to sow” it's planned, if it’s been sowed it says “sowed”

This is what we planted this month

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