Top Tips & Jobs for Gardeners in June

Make the most of the warmer, wetter weather in June with our Gardening Angels top tips for June Gardening Jobs.

1. Sow & plant out tender vegetables

It’s a great time to plant out your marrows & courgettes outdoors as they will thrive in warmer growing conditions now the risk of frosts have passed.

Top Tip: When sowing your seeds, simply place them on top of your compost & push them down until they are covered. By growing marrows and courgettes in a Patio Allotment Planter you can ensure your plants are kept perfectly fed & watered & there’s even space to create your own salad garden in the central planter!

2. Create Your Own Salad Garden

Grow your own fresh summer salads in just 6 weeks with a self-watering Salad & Veg Planter. Perfect for growing radish, lettuce, spring onion and leafy salads from seed.

Top Tip: Once harvested, sow more salad seeds in succession to ensure a continued harvest throughout the summer. This is a great way to make use of your growing space and ensure you never run out of salad for your next BBQ.

Read our Salad Growing Guide for more top tips

3. Sow Beetroot, Broccoli & Carrots

Sow these tasty treats now and get ready for a bumper harvest later in the year.

Sow 15-20 seeds per 1 metre row then, after 3-4 weeks of growing, thin plants to 10-15 per row and start your second row.

Top Tip: If growing in a Quadgrow Root Veg Planter, spread seeds evenly, as this will provide room for them to grow into.

4. Help Pollinate Your Tomato Plants

Lightly tap your tomato plants or spray them with a fine mist of water.

This will help disperse the pollen, helping you to ensure a good fruit set on your tomatoes.

You’ll soon be on your way to bigger yields of your favourite tomatoes.

Read our tomato growing FAQ for more handy hints and grow your own bumper tomato harvests.

5. Prepare to Harvest

- Potatoes

Early Potatoes planted in February or March should may be ready for harvesting.  As the potatoes are buried, the best way to check if they are ready is just to dig them up and have a look for yourself!

If you’re the proud owner of a handy Potato Harvesting Scoop you can dig out potatoes from the compost without any risk of stabbing your spuds.

Top Tip: Your Potatoes will continue to grow steadily in the compost for several weeks, so only dig out enough for 1 meal at a time. This way, you’ll find yourself harvesting bigger & bigger potatoes as the weeks go by!

- Garlic & Spring Onions

If your Garlic & Spring Onions foliage is turning yellow and dying, they’re ready to be harvested, by simply pulling them up from the ground.

Did You Know? Once the foliage is all but completely keeled over, the leaves will have transferred all of their energy into the veg, which is why they will have appeared to die.

- Early Carrots

When the tops of your Early Carrots measure between ¾ and 1 inch, they’ll be ready to harvest. As with harvesting potatoes, pull up Carrots as and when you want to eat them.

Top Tip: Try to Harvest in the evening. This will help to reduce the risk of attracting carrot fly which can infect the plants roots causing damage to your prized crops.

6. Grow Some Windowsill Herbs

Even if you have your own plot or greenhouse, it’s always worth growing a few herbs on your kitchen windowsill.

Top Tip: The biggest problem herbs face is over and under-watering. Being poorly watered can affect the taste of herbs, not to mention also killing off your plants. 

A self-watering Herb Planter will ensure your homegrown or shop bought herbs are kept perfectly fed & watered for up to 2 weeks at a time; so no more wilted, tasteless herbs!

Plus, you’ll have a delicious garnish available the whole year round!

7. Say Goodbye to Crop Munching Slugs

June’s changeable weather can only mean one thing…Slugs & Snails! Warm and rainy weather creates the perfect breeding conditions for these slithering pests.

Top Tip: Surround the base of your flowers & vegetables with Organic Slug Pellets, which create an irritating barrier that slugs and snails hate to cross, sending them off to munch elsewhere. An added bonus: they are pet safe and child safe!

8. Prepare Summer Cuttings

Annual bedding plant cuttings from your Hydropod Cuttings Propagator should have started rooting. When roots are established, take your cuttings and pot them on into 9cm pots. Tap down pots to remove air pockets, then water them.

Top Tip: Put your potted cuttings into a Heated Propagator to help maintain moisture in the compost.

Favourite June Cuttings: Try taking cuttings from shrubs, such as lavender, hydrangeas and forsythia now you’ve got some extra space in your Hydropod Cuttings Propagator. Read our essential plants cuttings guide and grow more of your favourite decorative plants.

9. Keep Greenhouse & Polytunnels Ventilated

On hot days, open vents and windows in your greenhouse to ensure your plants don’t over heat.

If you’re using a greenhouse fan heater, you can switch to summer mode, which will circulate air around your greenhouse, reducing the risk of mould and fungal growth.

Top Tip: ‘Dampen Down’ your greenhouse to manage humidity. Simply water the floor of your greenhouse in the morning.

Throughout the day, the water will gradually evaporate, maintaining moisture levels in the air.

10. Protect Ripening Fruit

Cover Ripening fruit with a protective mesh netting.

Perfect for preventing pests from nibbling on your prized plants whilst still providing your plants with all the access to air, water and light they could ever dream of!