June
June
- Encourage runner beans up their supports.
- Make sure potatoes are earthed up.
- Remove all side shoots from tomatoes, and if some of the flowers have set, start to feed the plants.
- If you are watering your allotment, do it early in the morning or late afternoon to avoid evaporation – and soak rather than splash.
- Peg down strawberry runners.
- Protect any fruit with netting.
Sow outdoors this month;
- Calabrese
- Carrots
- Chicory
- French and runner beans
- Kohl rabi
- Lettuce
- Turnips and Swedes.
You might be eating your first early potatoes this month, along with beetroot, broad beans, globe artichokes, lettuce, peas, radish and rocket.
Tips;
When you lift your first early potatoes, why not keep a few tubers aside and replant in a sunny spot. By late September they will need covering with cloches to protect them and then you could dig them up to have with your Xmas dinner.
Transplant;
Broccoli – Brussels sprouts – Cabbages – Celeriac – Courgettes – Cucumbers – French beans – Sweet corn – Tomatoes.