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JUNE GARDEN TIPS
• Make sure that your potatoes don’t run short of moisture at this time. the new tubers should be forming now and will respond well to a thorough watering. • Plant out those annual herbs (dill, pot marigold, basil, coriander, etc) that often resent being planted too early. • Plant outdoor tomatoes, ridge cucumbers, courgettes and marrows. these can all be easily grown in large pots or growbags on the patio. • Most herbs will benefit from being cut fairly hard now. the young shoot tips are generally the tastiest parts to use in cooking. • there is still time to make a sowing of perpetual spinach leaf beet. this is a really useful vegetable that can be harvested right through the winter. • A late sowing of parsley can still be made and, even if you don’t have a veg. patch, curled parsley will not look out of place in the flower border! • Spray your apples to stop Codling Moth grubs boring into your fruit. Pheromone traps, now widely available, give good non-pesticide control but need to be installed early enough to get control. • remove (by snapping them off) side shoots from cordon (non bushy) tomatoes. Stake and support them. feed regularly with tomato feed, it improves the flavour! • Prune plums and cherries. If wall trained, new shoots can be pinched back to encourage more branching. tie and support new shoots. Heavy crops can be thinned next month if necessary.
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