June offers fantastic new harvests, exciting flavours. As harvests finish, that means beds coming empty and opportunities to replant. Keep raising transplants.
Filmed 5th June by Edward Dowding and edited by him. At Homeacres 51N UK, officially zone 8 but zone 5b in summer.
Key harvests include garlic despite rust + interplant
Courgettes, pick small & no worry about grey + watering
Peas diff. types need diff support, poor pollination so far, keep for seed also.
Like any plants finishing, remove them asap to have clear space for replanting, with no new compost needed in summer
Carrots, thin for early harvests & interplant eg Brussels, kale and mesh cover
New sowings beetroot, swedes, French bean, celery, carrots outside and parsnips
Do not sow spinach, turnips, salad rocket, mizuna, pak choi, fennel
Value of undercover space, and the hotbed soon being moved out
Potatoes need compost on top to prevent greening
Have transplants ready such as cabbages after broad beans - also to follow peas, salad onions, early cabbage, spinach, turnips eg half of Homeacres is replanted through summer
Pest protection, mesh helps so much especially on brassica plantings
Herb cuttings
Prune stone fruit
00:00 Introduction
00:34 Managing weeds
00:56 When to harvest garlic
01:37 Interplanting between garlic -multisown beetroot
02:05 When to harvest courgettes
03:33 Discolouration on courgette leaves - no need to worry
03:57 Watering courgette plants
04:20 Peas - podding and snap
05:35 Peas for seed, plus mangetout and yellow-podded
06:04 Clearing peas after final harvest
06:37 A bed of carrots despite many slugs! Thinning, and eating the tops
07:38 Succession planting - Brussels sprouts as carrots are finishing
07:57 Edging
08:23 June sowings I recommend
09:11 And those I don’t recommend
09:51 In the greenhouse - the benefits of an under cover space
10:28 Potatoes, mounding up
11:29 Pests in summer, how to manage - and having spare plants ready
12:42 Using covers to mitigate damage
12:59 Using Bacillus thuringiensis against caterpillars
13:09 Broad beans, and succession planting
13:59 Taking cuttings of herbs - thyme and rosemary
15:25 Pruning fruit trees
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