Ever wondered what to plant in June when your garden beds already seem packed to capacity? This episode answers that crucial question, revealing why continuous sowing through early summer is the secret to garden abundance all year round.
The truth is, June represents a pivotal transition in the vegetable garden. While your growing spaces might appear fully occupied now, within weeks early crops will be harvested, creating valuable real estate for new plantings. The gardeners who stop sowing in June create unnecessary gaps in their harvest calendar later in the year.
We explore the complete June sowing guide, from quick-maturing succession crops like spinach, radish and lettuce, to the longer-term investments of purple sprouting broccoli and winter cabbages. Learn why certain vegetables justify their extended growing period by providing rare flavors during the hunger gap. I share specific variety recommendations for root vegetables, brassicas, and warm-weather crops that need sowing this month for autumn and winter harvests.
Beyond sowing, we address critical June garden tasks like earthing up potatoes, managing increasing weed pressure, and protecting tomatoes from blight risk. I explain how dramatic temperature fluctuations (sometimes swinging from 3°C to 38°C in a single day) can temporarily stunt plant growth, helping you diagnose unexplained growth plateaus.
The episode opens with reflections from the Buds and Blossoms Festival, where I had the pleasure of meeting many podcast listeners in person. I also share a fascinating discovery about William Robinson's true origins near my home in County Laois, settling a long-standing debate from our previous episode.
Ready to maximize your growing season? This episode provides the roadmap for turning June plantings into winter feasts. Your future self will thank you for the planning!
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
how's it going, everybody, and welcome to
episode 280 of master, my gardenpodcasts.
Now, this week's episode we'relooking at what to sow in the
month of june and typically wedo this episode on the first
friday of the month, but lastweek I had Coward on and needed
to get that episode out beforethe Buds and Blossoms Festival
last weekend, and so it's pushedout, pushed out a little bit.
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It's normally the first Fridayof the month, as I say, and it
serves normally serves as a kindof a useful reminder to people
as to what to sow in the monthahead.
But yeah, it's been a greatweek.
So just to sort of recap on, Isuppose, last week's episode to
a certain extent, and then lastweekend as well.
So last week's episode with Tom, we spoke about William
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Robinson and how he's kind of alittle bit forgotten in terms of
, you know, in terms ofgardening and but that overall,
his, his methods and histeachings and some of his books
have been and are still the kindof cornerstone of a lot of
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garden design.
You know, things that we comeaccustomed to, like the
perennial borders and wildgardens and so on, and those,
you know, that type of style wasoriginally you know, originally
developed by by him.
And you might remember back tothe episode.
There's a bit of debate, orthere was a bit of debate around
where actually William Robinsonis from.
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Because you know, as Tommentioned, leash had some sort
of a claim on him, so too didCarlo some, so too did Down,
potentially Donegal and Dublin,and a lot of people you know
seem to kind of have a claim onit.
And it was.
You know, it was a greatweekend in that Tom was being
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collected from the airport onSaturday to come down to Buds
and Blossoms and on the way downthey rang me.
But because I live in a placecalled Doonan, cretiard County,
leash, and there was someevidence that suggests that
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William Robinson was in the areaas a very, very young child and
we actually got proof then thathe was christened in a church
quite close by, within kind oftwo miles of where I am.
So it kind of put it to bedcategorically that he is from
Leash and it was reallyinteresting.
We're kind of delving a littlebit further into that now as to
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you know, his kind of early days.
But it was really interesting,we're kind of delving a little
bit further into that now as to,you know, his kind of early
days, but it was reallyinteresting and you know, we met
some interesting people andwent on a bit of a journey on
Saturday.
Sunday then was obviously Budsand Blossoms itself and it's,
you know, for me that's thesecond time I've spoken at it.
It's lovely to speak at thoseevents, really enjoy it and what
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, but what I really likedafterwards was there was several
of you to come up to me wholisten to the podcast on a
weekly basis and, as I've saidmultiple times before, the
amount of time that you know,you're behind the microphone
here I'm recording, but I don'tknow who's on the other side,
who's listening and and who's,you know, tuning in on a weekly
(03:32):
basis, getting benefit from thepodcast, maybe learning from the
podcast, maybe enjoying thepodcast.
I don't always know, in fact, Irarely know who they, you, who
you are, and it's so nice, then,to kind of make connections.
Make connections that way.
I know I've kind of you knowmentioned it before but please
do, if you're listening, doconnect with me, say hello,
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instagram or email or whateverthe case may be.
It's really nice to create, youknow, a connection between
myself and yourselves, thelisteners.
I'm sure, you know, a lot ofpeople said they're listening,
they listen on a weekly basis,and you know some of them loved
certain types of topics and itwas so good to hear that because
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it's kind of feedback and youknow.
You know, then, that whatyou're doing is, you know, is
helping people.
The only other couple of weeksago when I was driving into
bloom was really nice as well.
I was in traffic just as weentered the car parks and you
know there was a couple ofpeople walked by with a good few
children and somebody shoutedin oh hi, john, I love your
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podcast, and I just kept walking.
But I have no idea who thatperson was.
But it was nice that you knowsomebody again was listening to
the podcast and then said hello,um, yeah, so if you are, if you
are listening, just do, do givea shout.
The talk itself went reallywell.
Um, you know, got good feedbackafterwards and, yeah, really
enjoyed it myself.
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It's you know something, I,something I don't do a lot of,
but yeah, really, really enjoyedthe talk and I think it went
down very well.
The following talks ColinJones' one on Salter Bridge
Garden creating a cut flowergarden from scratch was superb.
The whole journey from start tofinish was brilliant and you
know the outcome at the end.
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And to see the garden at theend and to see the whole thought
process that went into it, youknow, in terms of layout, in
terms of design, in terms ofsoil preparation, soil health,
and then execution at the end,where you know bouquets are
available and cut flowers areavailable for a big event that
was held down there.
So that was a lovely story.
And then, obviously, to hearTom talking about William
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Robinson initially, and thenmoving on to Gravetide Manor and
to see some pictures from there, to see the gardens from there.
It's definitely somewhere I'mgoing to visit over the coming
year for sure.
At the end of his presentationthere was a number of slides
which were food slides GravetideManor is a hotel and has a
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Michelin star restaurant as welland to see you know Tom is over
a vegetable garden and a bigorchard there.
And to see the, the plates thatthe chefs were producing from
the produce it was.
They just looked so special,like really, really, they look
really phenomenal and uh,delicious.
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And at that time of the day on,when we were looking at the
slides, you would be just reallywishing you were sitting there
in front of, in front of thoseplates of food.
They look brilliant.
The story the garden wasbrilliant.
The story william robinson wasbrilliant.
It was nice to be able to, youknow, sort of prove or Tom was
able to prove during his talkthat you know he was in fact
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from Leish, and that was a kindof a nice touch.
So, yeah, it was a superbweekend and thanks to everybody
who said hello.
And you know, as I say, keepkeep contacting, keep messaging.
It's lovely to hear from youall anyway.
So to get back to this week'sepisode, as I say, slightly
later than normal, I like to dothis at the start of the month
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because it does give people, youknow, kind of time to organize
themselves over the course ofthe month.
But it's an episode that everymonth proves really, really
popular.
And what to sew on the month ofJune?
It's definitely, you know thelist is is reducing slightly and
June is a.
It's a funny kind of a monthfrom from the point of view of
sewing and it's one where youcan easily sort of back away
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from sewing because when you'relooking around your beds,
typically at this stage you havevery, very little space left
and the inclination at thatstage is oh, that's it, there's
nowhere else to put stuff and Istop sowing and then that means
there's nothing coming.
But even at this stage, you'llbe starting to get some harvests
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.
Certainly by the end of themonth.
You'll be a lot closer tohaving harvests and you know,
without a doubt you'll be,you'll be finding space again in
a couple of weeks time, whichis when these seedlings or these
plugs are going to be ready,available again.
So don't stop sowing, eventhough your beds might be full,
and sort of plan the next phase,because the sowing over this
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month, next month and intoAugust, they're going to be the
sowings that are going toguarantee supply right through
the back end of the year andeven up through Christmas and
into next year, and those arethe sowings that typically we
leave behind and we forget about.
And I think it's kind ofimportant, you know, to utilize
the spaces that we have and tocontinue to sow at this stage.
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So what can we sow?
As I said, the list is gettingless than the month of May, but
we can definitely sow thesuccessional crops again.
So we're continuing with springonion.
It's going to be a constantthroughout all our sowing months
.
Spinach is another one.
At this time of the year youwill find that spinach runs the
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seed quite quickly and becauseof that then we're looking at a
really regular sowing of that.
For me, when the spinach runsthe seed, as soon as it starts
to run the seed it just getspulled out, thrown into the hens
and there is another sowingthen coming behind it all the
time.
Don't need to sow a lot, butjust sow it regularly.
Radish is another one.
I dip in and out of that, butit's one that can be sowed again
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on a monthly basis.
It is going to run to seedquite quickly at this time of
the year, but if you do smallamounts of sowings and keep
sowing, then you're going tohave kind of fresh, constant
supply of radish.
Lettuce, again, is another one,and any of you that were at the
talk last Sunday you'll knowthat I talked about smart
harvesting, where you canpotentially get away without
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doing some of these sowings byallowing the lettuce to grow
tall and keep just harvestingthe outer leaves.
But none, whichever way you'redoing it, just continue to sow
some lettuce all the time, smallfew to create seedlings you can
direct.
So even at this time of year.
It makes it a lot easier andyou can use, you know, things
like mixed salad leaves at thistime of the year and you can
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start to transition just towardsthe end of the month.
You can start to transitioninto more autumn varieties and
start to bring in, you know,like some mizuna and things like
that.
We'll fully transition over thecoming months to really hardier
winter winter ones.
But at this stage you can dosummer and kind of autumn stroke
, early winter winter typesowings.
Just watch out for lettuce.
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It's not really a problem atthe minute.
But lettuce, if we've gotreally really warm temperatures,
lettuce just doesn't germinateat really high temperatures.
Just watch out for that.
But at the moment it's nothingto worry about.
Certainly for the next lookingahead, for the next kind of week
or so we're looking at gettingI think it's thursday um, which
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will be the day after or the theday before this episode
releases.
There's talk of a yellow rainwarning.
So yeah, we're certainly notgoing to be um in any kind of a
heat wave, you know, in the verynear future.
So that's kind of your, yoursuccessional crops.
Then there's going to be seedsthat you can sow this month, but
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you may not need it because youalready have enough.
For example, for me chard canbe sowed this month, but I don't
need to sow chard, I alreadyhave it sowed for the year.
So you know, a few, a fewplants of chard is kind of
enough, so that's already done.
So there's no need necessarilyto sow this month.
But packed choy can also besowed and I kind of group them
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together, packed choy andcharred, then leeks can continue
to be sowed.
This is kind of you know, kindof the last opportunity to do
that, maybe a little bit nextmonth, but more or less that's
the last opportunity.
And what we are looking at nowis we're looking at autumn or
winter varieties of leeks,because we're going to be
harvesting them right deep intothe into the winter and you know
that's where you're going toneed to have, I suppose, a later
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variety, one that's going tostand up to the cold, not
necessarily at this stage, butobviously when it's getting into
that winter time, november,december and so on.
Then you can also sow quite afew of the herbs at this stage
of the year.
Again, coriander, I should havereally included it with the
successional stuff because itwill run to seed very, very
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quickly at this time of the year.
That can be sowed Both.
Your parsley is the flat leafand the curly leaf.
Again, I'll be sowing some ofthose.
I've some some sown already,but it will be sown another
little bit because the firstbatch little bit mixed
germination, so I don't havequite as much as I would have
liked there.
So I'll sow both of those overthe coming weeks as well.
Dill can also be sown.
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Chervil Basil I have a nice bitof Basil on the go already, but
I will do another sowing ofthat just to try and get a
little bit more longevity out ofit.
At the opposite end, at the farend of the harvesting, then
we're looking at, you know, someof um, any of you that were at
the talk last weekend I was kindof picking on cauliflower a
little bit and but yeah, you cansaw cauliflower this month.
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It's one that I saw a bit, butI don't, I think.
I think it takes up a lot ofspace for the amount of produce
you get from it.
So I'm a little bit.
Yeah, it's, it's okay, but it'sum, it's, it's only one that,
if you really have the space, Iwouldn't be, you know, if you
were stuck for space I certainlywouldn't include cauliflower in
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your sewing, but you can.
So again, you're looking toswitch to autumn, winter
varieties at this stage.
Same for calabrese, again alittle bit like the cauliflower,
not, you know, not the mostproductive purple sprout, and
broccoli, on the other hand,again, that'll sit in the ground
for a long, long time.
But the difference for me withpurple sprout and broccoli is
that it's a.
It's a.
It's a, I suppose, a harvest oftender greens at a time of the
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year where there's very, verylittle else that tastes like it.
And for that reason I thinkit's, it's kind of a must have
in any vegetable garden.
Granted, it does take up a lotof space and it does take a long
time, but that little pop ofpurple tender sprouts at that
time of the year, again it's.
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It's a seasonal thing, it'llonly be for a few weeks, but at
that stage of the year that willbe so welcome, and that's why
it's so worthwhile sowing purplesprout and broccoli at this
time of the year, and cabbagesas well.
Same thing.
Certain times of the yearcabbage I love, other times I
couldn't.
You know, I don't care whetherI have it or not, but in that
winter period, red cabbage,which can be sowed this month,
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savoy cabbage, all of those arebeautiful.
So again, a great month July isa great month to get those
sowed.
And again we're looking atharvests, you know, deep into
the winter and early next spring, and so we are kind of planning
down the line here.
And then we look at kind ofsome of the root vegetables and
there's still a few of thesethat we can sow.
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Beetroot for me, the last sowingof those, I'll do the last
sowing of those this month andthat's going to be a kind of a
winter variety.
So you know, early in the timeI'll be sowing bolt hardy and
then later on I'll be switchingvarieties and I'll be going for
a winter variety.
Swedes again, I saw some ofthose and you're looking at kind
of autumn winter harvest here.
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Little turnips, milan purpletops, they're going to be a lot
quicker.
So you're sowing now but you'llbe harvesting, you know,
relatively quickly over theperiod of next kind of two
months or so.
Um, the small sowings of those.
You don't need a big sowing andyou will get to catch another
sowing of those later as well.
Carrots again, you're switchingto an autumn variety or an
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autumn winter variety at thisstage.
And parsnips this is kind ofthe last chance this month to
sow those.
I don't sow.
I have my parsnips sown more orless so I don't need to do
another sowing.
There's one little patch ofboth the parsnips sewn, more or
less, so I don't need to doanother sewing.
There's one little patch ofboth the parsnips and carrots
where the germination was alittle bit patchy and I might
just do a little bit of a spotsewing in there.
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But it's more to replace abatch that just didn't take for
whatever reason I think it was.
So they were sewn and then,during that really dry period I
think they just might have gotdried out at one stage or other,
and but that's the only littlesown that I'll do is just to
patch up a bit of a drill.
That's that's there I'm notdoing.
There's not a huge amount in it,and so that's kind of your root
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vegetables parsnip, carrot,turnip, swede and beetroot, and
they can all be soed this month.
Then there's a few of the whatwe call the warm, the ones that
need warmth to germinate, andit's kind of the last chance
with some of these as well.
Cucumber is one, courgette isanother, sweetcorn is another.
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I've sweetcorn gone already.
I've courgette in, I'vecucumber in, pumpkin I've sowed
Again.
That's more for you, you know,just for a little lady here, for
for Halloween than anythingelse.
It's not really, you know, as aas a crop as such.
But if you are growing for, fora crop, now is the time to get
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it in.
You really will need, you knowit'll need to be done this month
because you'll need that timeframe to, you know, to get them
to mature and so on.
Squash as well, kind of thelast chance for so on those.
I do find that a lot of thesquash varieties, huge amount of
the squash varieties, get itreally really hard to, I suppose
, reach full maturity.
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I just don't think that we'regetting the high enough
temperatures for a consistentlength of time, especially in my
tunnel with the open sides.
If you have a closed in tunnelyou might actually be able to,
you know, keep a lot of warmthin there over a long period of
time.
I just find that they're justnot getting enough heat to fully
develop out and you know theway that they would, that you
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would see them out in spain andportugal and all these places,
and I think it's down to the youyou know.
Just there's especially in mytunnel.
There isn't that consistentheat for a long enough period.
I've grown them successfully inthe past, but they're not
successful every year.
So, yeah, but this month isreally the last kind of chance
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you'll get at that.
You can still continue to sowFrench bean, either the wharf
varieties or climate varieties,and they'll be really successful
really quick.
Peas as well, they can be sown,and celery can be sown.
That's kind of can be sown allthe time there.
But just be careful again,don't cover celery seed when
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you're sowing it.
So it needs to be open, be open.
And yeah, that's kind of.
The list probably missed one ortwo there, I think, maybe.
But yeah, just to run over themagain, your kind of
successional things like spinach, spring onion, radish, lettuce,
summer leaves I'll throwcoriander in there with them as
the you know, the sort ofsuccessional things.
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Then you can sow pak choy andchard if you haven't done a
sowing already.
Then leeks, you're switching toautumn, winter varieties.
The rest of the herbs parsley,dill, chervil, flat leaf parsley
, curly parsley, basil and thensome of your brassica family.
So cabbages your purple sproutand broccoli, your savoy cabbage
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, purple cabbage, calabrese,cauliflower you know all of
those and again, where possible,switching to autumn stroke,
winter varieties, your rootvegetables parsnip last chance
this month carrots, turnips,swede and beetroot Again last
chance to sow those.
A couple of the you know thewarm varieties you're looking at
cucumber, courgettes, sweetcorn, pumpkin, squash, french
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beans and peas and celery, andthat kind of concludes the list
that you can sow this month.
As I said, this month has kindof changed a bit.
Last month is definitely thebusiest in terms of sowing and
it's the biggest kind of listthat you can sow.
The list has reduced slightlythis year with, or this month
with, certain things coming offit, but there's a kind of a
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change now.
So your beds are full.
Typically, the crops areexpanding, they're getting
bigger.
Some will be ready for harvest,but you're maybe not quite
there yet.
That's typically what you seein the month of june.
Continue to sow, though, becauseby the time those crops are
ready, you'll need something toget into that space in order to
give you continuity of crop.
So keep, keep sowing.
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That's the big, that's the bigthing.
Space can definitely be tightat this stage if you do have the
opportunity, you know, withthings like radish or spring
onions.
So little catch crops doesn'thave to be a big amount.
Little catch crops.
In between any gaps that youmight have, you know they will.
You know, even if rows ofcarrots, for example, sow,
instance, some spring onions,they'll do really well and
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they'll be harvested.
They'll be out of there longbefore the, the carrots are
anywhere near mature or anywherethat that the you know the
leaves or the canopy of thecarrots are going to cover over.
It'll also help from the pointof view of repelling any maybe
carrot root fly and so on.
That's kind of an idea ofcatching these crops.
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Make sure you're utilizingevery bit of space because, as I
say, space will be tight in themonth of June.
Potatoes continue to art them up.
Some of them probably will begetting to the point where
they're flowering now and that'sa good sign.
But continue to art them up asmuch as possible.
If you're growing them incontainers particularly, keep an
eye out that you know you'rekeeping enough water on them,
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even if it is raining sometimesin containers that get get dried
out, and so just make sure thatthere's enough moisture in in
those containers, becausethey're going to need that
moisture to drive all that topgrowth and to push moisture into
the tubers to create the, thepotatoes that will fill out and
get bigger over the over thecoming months, you should
potentially in certain areas notnot here just yet, but in
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certain areas be getting closeto a first harvest on your early
potatoes, you know, your firstearlies and maybe some of your
salad potatoes and so on.
Definitely, as I say, not here,just as I say, colder all the
time, but they'll be coming andthey're growing really, really
well.
So, yeah, they're on thehorizon.
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The other things to watch outfor is weeds.
Definitely at this stage, wheatgrowth really increases in the
month of june you typically endup with, you know quite a bit of
so the seedlings start togerminate, typically through
april and by may time they'restarting to come, but they're
not that strong.
But in June you will noticequite a big burst of wheat
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growth.
The easiest way to keep on topof it is to keep tipping at that
all the time, especially ifyou're operating in no-dig beds.
Just pass through the beds on aregular basis once a week,
pulling out any little seedlings, and then it doesn't allow
anything to sort of take hold or, you know establish itself in
the bed.
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So just keep on top of it, niceand simple, regular, regular
rather than, you know, allowinga problem to develop and then
trying to combat it from thereon your tomatoes.
Keep them fed, you know,watered, keep driving them on,
keep tying them up as they'regoing.
Ensure as much as possible.
We've a kind of a blight warningover the last week and you know
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, I don't know how long that'sgoing to continue, but you're
going to look to keep theventilation for your tomatoes as
much as possible, keep thevents open where possible, keep
the doors open where possible,and all of the tips that I gave
a few weeks ago watering theground, not the plant, keeping
the leaves dry, doing anypruning in the morning time to
allow the the any wounds thatyou create while you're pruning
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to dry up ahead of the nighttime, and the more of those sort
of husbandry things that youcan do, the less likelihood
you're going to have ofdeveloping any kind of blight on
your tomatoes.
So watch out for that.
Outdoors then for blight forpotatoes.
That's where the big warninghas been over the last week.
We're looking at warmtemperatures, a good bit of
moisture, and they're idealconditions for blight.
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There is a couple of, you knowif you, particularly if you have
main crop potatoes, there's acouple of you know if you,
particularly if you have maincrop potatoes there's a couple
of different sprays that you canput on that you can use them,
but you do need to use them on aregular basis.
The other thing that you can do, which I do here, is seaweed
spray.
Seaweed on them on a weeklybasis really does strengthen the
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plants, and I am using the probiocarbon liquid formulation,
which isn't strictly speakingfor blight, but I am seeing that
it's strengthening.
And I am using thepro-biocarbon liquid formulation
, which isn't strictly speakingfor blight, but I am seeing that
it's strengthening the plant,along with the seaweed.
It's strengthening the plantreally, really well and, fingers
crossed, it's going to continueto resist against any blight
that might be coming over thecoming weeks.
So, yeah, that's kind of thejobs for the month.
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It changes, you know.
Know, year to year, the list isthe same in terms of what you
can sow, but the conditions thatwe're finding at the various
times are changing, and while afew weeks ago we were talking
about, you know, really warm,sunny, dry conditions, certainly
over the last week there hasbeen last two, two weeks, maybe
even heading for three at thisstage.
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There's been a severe lack oflight and, you know, not really
getting sunny days.
We're getting these overcastdays.
Temperatures are up and down.
I saw somebody last week posteda photograph and it was really
interesting.
They had a max min thermometerin their greenhouse and if any
of you are seeing sporadic orstunted growth in greenhouses,
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this is definitely why they hada maximum thermometer and the
maximum temperature in a 24-hourperiod was 38 degrees celsius
and the lowest temperature inthe same 24-hour period was
three degrees.
So when you have that much of avariance now maybe the, maybe
the doors or the vents were open, I don't know but to have a
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variance like that in growth,what happens is the plants, no
matter what plants we're talkingabout those plants will get a
kind of a mini shock because tobe at a temperature of, you know
, 30s degrees now those can bereading slightly high depending
on where the position in thehouse, but let's say it's 30
degrees in the greenhouse andyou're getting that, the plants
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are getting that, there's a lotof transpiration, they're,
they're really warm, the, thesoil is warm and all of that you
know, and then that night, youknow, within a short period of
time, there's temperatures offour degrees, three degrees,
four degrees.
That is a massive, massive dropand that's going to give the
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plants little shocks.
And what happens when a plantgets a shock of any type,
whether they dry out or whetherthey get these big fluctuations
in in temperature, they actuallykind of stagnate a little bit.
And you will notice that andI've certainly noticed it myself
where there's certain certainthings were growing really well
and for the last kind of week or10 days it looks like they're
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just sitting there.
Now all of a sudden they willkick off again, but they do kind
of go into a little state ofmini shock.
And if you're, if you'rewondering what's happening in
your tunnel, that's potentiallywhat it is or even outside in
your beds, because you know thesame thing is going to be
replicated where this week we'vehad morning time temperatures
really really cold when I sayreally cold, you know kind of
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six degrees, seven degrees,eight degrees into in the early
mornings and then bymid-afternoon you're up to kind
of 20 degrees, 22 degrees, andagain that's a big variance, you
know, outside, and it is thosevariances that are going to
cause little kind of checks andlittle kind of holes within the
plant, but they will grow out ofit and it's.
It's no different.
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You know, we get this kind ofevery year but it presents
itself in different ways.
But yeah, that's um, that's thekind of interesting weather and
it just goes to show that everyyear, when you cover this month
by month sowing guide, it'svery rare that one year to the
next, the month of June or themonth of May or the month of
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April is the same, and that'scertainly true to form again
this year.
But there's loads to be sown.
But that's the main takeawaypoint is to continue to sow,
because during the month of June, as I say, your beds will be
full.
There's not going to be muchspace in your mind to say where
am I going to put thesevegetables when they're ready?
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But definitely over the comingweeks you're going to start to
have harvest and as soon as youhave harvest, it's really nice
to have new plants, new sowingsto go in there and that will
mean that you're going to beable to create some longevity
into your harvest and utilizeyour space to the max.
So that's the takeaway fromtoday's episode is to continue
to sow.
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We'll be back next month withthe sowing month for the what?
The sowing month of july.
That will actually be quitequickly now, because this one
has gone a little bit later thanthan normal.
So, as I say, it's normally thefirst friday of the month, but
yeah, that's that's.
Sometimes these things happen,but hopefully you're all gonna
hear it in time to get, as Isaid, to get some benefit from
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it again.
Thanks to everybody to come upand say hello on the weekend and
really nice to meet, to meetnew people, met some people that
you know listen to the podcast,but I had met them last year as
well and lovely to meet themagain.
But to the new people who, whoI haven't spoke to before, that
was really nice to to see on theweekend and yeah, that's been
this week's episode.
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Thanks for listening and I'lltell you next time.
Happy gardening.
how's it going, everybody, and welcome to
episode 280 of master, my gardenpodcasts.
Now, this week's episode we'relooking at what to sow in the
month of june and typically wedo this episode on the first
friday of the month, but lastweek I had Coward on and needed
to get that episode out beforethe Buds and Blossoms Festival
last weekend, and so it's pushedout, pushed out a little bit.
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It's normally the first Fridayof the month, as I say, and it
serves normally serves as a kindof a useful reminder to people
as to what to sow in the monthahead.
But yeah, it's been a greatweek.
So just to sort of recap on, Isuppose, last week's episode to
a certain extent, and then lastweekend as well.
So last week's episode with Tom, we spoke about William
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Robinson and how he's kind of alittle bit forgotten in terms of
, you know, in terms ofgardening and but that overall,
his, his methods and histeachings and some of his books
have been and are still the kindof cornerstone of a lot of
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garden design.
You know, things that we comeaccustomed to, like the
perennial borders and wildgardens and so on, and those,
you know, that type of style wasoriginally you know, originally
developed by by him.
And you might remember back tothe episode.
There's a bit of debate, orthere was a bit of debate around
where actually William Robinsonis from.
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Because you know, as Tommentioned, leash had some sort
of a claim on him, so too didCarlo some, so too did Down,
potentially Donegal and Dublin,and a lot of people you know
seem to kind of have a claim onit.
And it was.
You know, it was a greatweekend in that Tom was being
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collected from the airport onSaturday to come down to Buds
and Blossoms and on the way downthey rang me.
But because I live in a placecalled Doonan, cretiard County,
leash, and there was someevidence that suggests that
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William Robinson was in the areaas a very, very young child and
we actually got proof then thathe was christened in a church
quite close by, within kind oftwo miles of where I am.
So it kind of put it to bedcategorically that he is from
Leash and it was reallyinteresting.
We're kind of delving a littlebit further into that now as to
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you know, his kind of early days.
But it was really interesting,we're kind of delving a little
bit further into that now as to,you know, his kind of early
days, but it was reallyinteresting and you know, we met
some interesting people andwent on a bit of a journey on
Saturday.
Sunday then was obviously Budsand Blossoms itself and it's,
you know, for me that's thesecond time I've spoken at it.
It's lovely to speak at thoseevents, really enjoy it and what
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, but what I really likedafterwards was there was several
of you to come up to me wholisten to the podcast on a
weekly basis and, as I've saidmultiple times before, the
amount of time that you know,you're behind the microphone
here I'm recording, but I don'tknow who's on the other side,
who's listening and and who's,you know, tuning in on a weekly
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basis, getting benefit from thepodcast, maybe learning from the
podcast, maybe enjoying thepodcast.
I don't always know, in fact, Irarely know who they, you, who
you are, and it's so nice, then,to kind of make connections.
Make connections that way.
I know I've kind of you knowmentioned it before but please
do, if you're listening, doconnect with me, say hello,
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instagram or email or whateverthe case may be.
It's really nice to create, youknow, a connection between
myself and yourselves, thelisteners.
I'm sure, you know, a lot ofpeople said they're listening,
they listen on a weekly basis,and you know some of them loved
certain types of topics and itwas so good to hear that because
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it's kind of feedback and youknow.
You know, then, that whatyou're doing is, you know, is
helping people.
The only other couple of weeksago when I was driving into
bloom was really nice as well.
I was in traffic just as weentered the car parks and you
know there was a couple ofpeople walked by with a good few
children and somebody shoutedin oh hi, john, I love your
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podcast, and I just kept walking.
But I have no idea who thatperson was.
But it was nice that you knowsomebody again was listening to
the podcast and then said hello,um, yeah, so if you are, if you
are listening, just do, do givea shout.
The talk itself went reallywell.
Um, you know, got good feedbackafterwards and, yeah, really
enjoyed it myself.
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It's you know something, I,something I don't do a lot of,
but yeah, really, really enjoyedthe talk and I think it went
down very well.
The following talks ColinJones' one on Salter Bridge
Garden creating a cut flowergarden from scratch was superb.
The whole journey from start tofinish was brilliant and you
know the outcome at the end.
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And to see the garden at theend and to see the whole thought
process that went into it, youknow, in terms of layout, in
terms of design, in terms ofsoil preparation, soil health,
and then execution at the end,where you know bouquets are
available and cut flowers areavailable for a big event that
was held down there.
So that was a lovely story.
And then, obviously, to hearTom talking about William
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Robinson initially, and thenmoving on to Gravetide Manor and
to see some pictures from there, to see the gardens from there.
It's definitely somewhere I'mgoing to visit over the coming
year for sure.
At the end of his presentationthere was a number of slides
which were food slides GravetideManor is a hotel and has a
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Michelin star restaurant as welland to see you know Tom is over
a vegetable garden and a bigorchard there.
And to see the, the plates thatthe chefs were producing from
the produce it was.
They just looked so special,like really, really, they look
really phenomenal and uh,delicious.
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And at that time of the day on,when we were looking at the
slides, you would be just reallywishing you were sitting there
in front of, in front of thoseplates of food.
They look brilliant.
The story the garden wasbrilliant.
The story william robinson wasbrilliant.
It was nice to be able to, youknow, sort of prove or Tom was
able to prove during his talkthat you know he was in fact
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from Leish, and that was a kindof a nice touch.
So, yeah, it was a superbweekend and thanks to everybody
who said hello.
And you know, as I say, keepkeep contacting, keep messaging.
It's lovely to hear from youall anyway.
So to get back to this week'sepisode, as I say, slightly
later than normal, I like to dothis at the start of the month
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because it does give people, youknow, kind of time to organize
themselves over the course ofthe month.
But it's an episode that everymonth proves really, really
popular.
And what to sew on the month ofJune?
It's definitely, you know thelist is is reducing slightly and
June is a.
It's a funny kind of a monthfrom from the point of view of
sewing and it's one where youcan easily sort of back away
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from sewing because when you'relooking around your beds,
typically at this stage you havevery, very little space left
and the inclination at thatstage is oh, that's it, there's
nowhere else to put stuff and Istop sowing and then that means
there's nothing coming.
But even at this stage, you'llbe starting to get some harvests
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.
Certainly by the end of themonth.
You'll be a lot closer tohaving harvests and you know,
without a doubt you'll be,you'll be finding space again in
a couple of weeks time, whichis when these seedlings or these
plugs are going to be ready,available again.
So don't stop sowing, eventhough your beds might be full,
and sort of plan the next phase,because the sowing over this
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month, next month and intoAugust, they're going to be the
sowings that are going toguarantee supply right through
the back end of the year andeven up through Christmas and
into next year, and those arethe sowings that typically we
leave behind and we forget about.
And I think it's kind ofimportant, you know, to utilize
the spaces that we have and tocontinue to sow at this stage.
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So what can we sow?
As I said, the list is gettingless than the month of May, but
we can definitely sow thesuccessional crops again.
So we're continuing with springonion.
It's going to be a constantthroughout all our sowing months
.
Spinach is another one.
At this time of the year youwill find that spinach runs the
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seed quite quickly and becauseof that then we're looking at a
really regular sowing of that.
For me, when the spinach runsthe seed, as soon as it starts
to run the seed it just getspulled out, thrown into the hens
and there is another sowingthen coming behind it all the
time.
Don't need to sow a lot, butjust sow it regularly.
Radish is another one.
I dip in and out of that, butit's one that can be sowed again
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on a monthly basis.
It is going to run to seedquite quickly at this time of
the year, but if you do smallamounts of sowings and keep
sowing, then you're going tohave kind of fresh, constant
supply of radish.
Lettuce, again, is another one,and any of you that were at the
talk last Sunday you'll knowthat I talked about smart
harvesting, where you canpotentially get away without
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doing some of these sowings byallowing the lettuce to grow
tall and keep just harvestingthe outer leaves.
But none, whichever way you'redoing it, just continue to sow
some lettuce all the time, smallfew to create seedlings you can
direct.
So even at this time of year.
It makes it a lot easier andyou can use, you know, things
like mixed salad leaves at thistime of the year and you can
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start to transition just towardsthe end of the month.
You can start to transitioninto more autumn varieties and
start to bring in, you know,like some mizuna and things like
that.
We'll fully transition over thecoming months to really hardier
winter winter ones.
But at this stage you can dosummer and kind of autumn stroke
, early winter winter typesowings.
Just watch out for lettuce.
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It's not really a problem atthe minute.
But lettuce, if we've gotreally really warm temperatures,
lettuce just doesn't germinateat really high temperatures.
Just watch out for that.
But at the moment it's nothingto worry about.
Certainly for the next lookingahead, for the next kind of week
or so we're looking at gettingI think it's thursday um, which
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will be the day after or the theday before this episode
releases.
There's talk of a yellow rainwarning.
So yeah, we're certainly notgoing to be um in any kind of a
heat wave, you know, in the verynear future.
So that's kind of your, yoursuccessional crops.
Then there's going to be seedsthat you can sow this month, but
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you may not need it because youalready have enough.
For example, for me chard canbe sowed this month, but I don't
need to sow chard, I alreadyhave it sowed for the year.
So you know, a few, a fewplants of chard is kind of
enough, so that's already done.
So there's no need necessarilyto sow this month.
But packed choy can also besowed and I kind of group them
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together, packed choy andcharred, then leeks can continue
to be sowed.
This is kind of you know, kindof the last opportunity to do
that, maybe a little bit nextmonth, but more or less that's
the last opportunity.
And what we are looking at nowis we're looking at autumn or
winter varieties of leeks,because we're going to be
harvesting them right deep intothe into the winter and you know
that's where you're going toneed to have, I suppose, a later
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variety, one that's going tostand up to the cold, not
necessarily at this stage, butobviously when it's getting into
that winter time, november,december and so on.
Then you can also sow quite afew of the herbs at this stage
of the year.
Again, coriander, I should havereally included it with the
successional stuff because itwill run to seed very, very
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quickly at this time of the year.
That can be sowed Both.
Your parsley is the flat leafand the curly leaf.
Again, I'll be sowing some ofthose.
I've some some sown already,but it will be sown another
little bit because the firstbatch little bit mixed
germination, so I don't havequite as much as I would have
liked there.
So I'll sow both of those overthe coming weeks as well.
Dill can also be sown.
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Chervil Basil I have a nice bitof Basil on the go already, but
I will do another sowing ofthat just to try and get a
little bit more longevity out ofit.
At the opposite end, at the farend of the harvesting, then
we're looking at, you know, someof um, any of you that were at
the talk last weekend I was kindof picking on cauliflower a
little bit and but yeah, you cansaw cauliflower this month.
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It's one that I saw a bit, butI don't, I think.
I think it takes up a lot ofspace for the amount of produce
you get from it.
So I'm a little bit.
Yeah, it's, it's okay, but it'sum, it's, it's only one that,
if you really have the space, Iwouldn't be, you know, if you
were stuck for space I certainlywouldn't include cauliflower in
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your sewing, but you can.
So again, you're looking toswitch to autumn, winter
varieties at this stage.
Same for calabrese, again alittle bit like the cauliflower,
not, you know, not the mostproductive purple sprout, and
broccoli, on the other hand,again, that'll sit in the ground
for a long, long time.
But the difference for me withpurple sprout and broccoli is
that it's a.
It's a.
It's a, I suppose, a harvest oftender greens at a time of the
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year where there's very, verylittle else that tastes like it.
And for that reason I thinkit's, it's kind of a must have
in any vegetable garden.
Granted, it does take up a lotof space and it does take a long
time, but that little pop ofpurple tender sprouts at that
time of the year, again it's.
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It's a seasonal thing, it'llonly be for a few weeks, but at
that stage of the year that willbe so welcome, and that's why
it's so worthwhile sowing purplesprout and broccoli at this
time of the year, and cabbagesas well.
Same thing.
Certain times of the yearcabbage I love, other times I
couldn't.
You know, I don't care whetherI have it or not, but in that
winter period, red cabbage,which can be sowed this month,
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savoy cabbage, all of those arebeautiful.
So again, a great month July isa great month to get those
sowed.
And again we're looking atharvests, you know, deep into
the winter and early next spring, and so we are kind of planning
down the line here.
And then we look at kind ofsome of the root vegetables and
there's still a few of thesethat we can sow.
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Beetroot for me, the last sowingof those, I'll do the last
sowing of those this month andthat's going to be a kind of a
winter variety.
So you know, early in the timeI'll be sowing bolt hardy and
then later on I'll be switchingvarieties and I'll be going for
a winter variety.
Swedes again, I saw some ofthose and you're looking at kind
of autumn winter harvest here.
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Little turnips, milan purpletops, they're going to be a lot
quicker.
So you're sowing now but you'llbe harvesting, you know,
relatively quickly over theperiod of next kind of two
months or so.
Um, the small sowings of those.
You don't need a big sowing andyou will get to catch another
sowing of those later as well.
Carrots again, you're switchingto an autumn variety or an
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autumn winter variety at thisstage.
And parsnips this is kind ofthe last chance this month to
sow those.
I don't sow.
I have my parsnips sown more orless so I don't need to do
another sowing.
There's one little patch ofboth the parsnips sewn, more or
less, so I don't need to doanother sewing.
There's one little patch ofboth the parsnips and carrots
where the germination was alittle bit patchy and I might
just do a little bit of a spotsewing in there.
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But it's more to replace abatch that just didn't take for
whatever reason I think it was.
So they were sewn and then,during that really dry period I
think they just might have gotdried out at one stage or other,
and but that's the only littlesown that I'll do is just to
patch up a bit of a drill.
That's that's there I'm notdoing.
There's not a huge amount in it,and so that's kind of your root
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vegetables parsnip, carrot,turnip, swede and beetroot, and
they can all be soed this month.
Then there's a few of the whatwe call the warm, the ones that
need warmth to germinate, andit's kind of the last chance
with some of these as well.
Cucumber is one, courgette isanother, sweetcorn is another.
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I've sweetcorn gone already.
I've courgette in, I'vecucumber in, pumpkin I've sowed
Again.
That's more for you, you know,just for a little lady here, for
for Halloween than anythingelse.
It's not really, you know, as aas a crop as such.
But if you are growing for, fora crop, now is the time to get
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it in.
You really will need, you knowit'll need to be done this month
because you'll need that timeframe to, you know, to get them
to mature and so on.
Squash as well, kind of thelast chance for so on those.
I do find that a lot of thesquash varieties, huge amount of
the squash varieties, get itreally really hard to, I suppose
, reach full maturity.
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I just don't think that we'regetting the high enough
temperatures for a consistentlength of time, especially in my
tunnel with the open sides.
If you have a closed in tunnelyou might actually be able to,
you know, keep a lot of warmthin there over a long period of
time.
I just find that they're justnot getting enough heat to fully
develop out and you know theway that they would, that you
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would see them out in spain andportugal and all these places,
and I think it's down to the youyou know.
Just there's especially in mytunnel.
There isn't that consistentheat for a long enough period.
I've grown them successfully inthe past, but they're not
successful every year.
So, yeah, but this month isreally the last kind of chance
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you'll get at that.
You can still continue to sowFrench bean, either the wharf
varieties or climate varieties,and they'll be really successful
really quick.
Peas as well, they can be sown,and celery can be sown.
That's kind of can be sown allthe time there.
But just be careful again,don't cover celery seed when
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you're sowing it.
So it needs to be open, be open.
And yeah, that's kind of.
The list probably missed one ortwo there, I think, maybe.
But yeah, just to run over themagain, your kind of
successional things like spinach, spring onion, radish, lettuce,
summer leaves I'll throwcoriander in there with them as
the you know, the sort ofsuccessional things.
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Then you can sow pak choy andchard if you haven't done a
sowing already.
Then leeks, you're switching toautumn, winter varieties.
The rest of the herbs parsley,dill, chervil, flat leaf parsley
, curly parsley, basil and thensome of your brassica family.
So cabbages your purple sproutand broccoli, your savoy cabbage
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, purple cabbage, calabrese,cauliflower you know all of
those and again, where possible,switching to autumn stroke,
winter varieties, your rootvegetables parsnip last chance
this month carrots, turnips,swede and beetroot Again last
chance to sow those.
A couple of the you know thewarm varieties you're looking at
cucumber, courgettes, sweetcorn, pumpkin, squash, french
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beans and peas and celery, andthat kind of concludes the list
that you can sow this month.
As I said, this month has kindof changed a bit.
Last month is definitely thebusiest in terms of sowing and
it's the biggest kind of listthat you can sow.
The list has reduced slightlythis year with, or this month
with, certain things coming offit, but there's a kind of a
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change now.
So your beds are full.
Typically, the crops areexpanding, they're getting
bigger.
Some will be ready for harvest,but you're maybe not quite
there yet.
That's typically what you seein the month of june.
Continue to sow, though, becauseby the time those crops are
ready, you'll need something toget into that space in order to
give you continuity of crop.
So keep, keep sowing.
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That's the big, that's the bigthing.
Space can definitely be tightat this stage if you do have the
opportunity, you know, withthings like radish or spring
onions.
So little catch crops doesn'thave to be a big amount.
Little catch crops.
In between any gaps that youmight have, you know they will.
You know, even if rows ofcarrots, for example, sow,
instance, some spring onions,they'll do really well and
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they'll be harvested.
They'll be out of there longbefore the, the carrots are
anywhere near mature or anywherethat that the you know the
leaves or the canopy of thecarrots are going to cover over.
It'll also help from the pointof view of repelling any maybe
carrot root fly and so on.
That's kind of an idea ofcatching these crops.
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Make sure you're utilizingevery bit of space because, as I
say, space will be tight in themonth of June.
Potatoes continue to art them up.
Some of them probably will begetting to the point where
they're flowering now and that'sa good sign.
But continue to art them up asmuch as possible.
If you're growing them incontainers particularly, keep an
eye out that you know you'rekeeping enough water on them,
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even if it is raining sometimesin containers that get get dried
out, and so just make sure thatthere's enough moisture in in
those containers, becausethey're going to need that
moisture to drive all that topgrowth and to push moisture into
the tubers to create the, thepotatoes that will fill out and
get bigger over the over thecoming months, you should
potentially in certain areas notnot here just yet, but in
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certain areas be getting closeto a first harvest on your early
potatoes, you know, your firstearlies and maybe some of your
salad potatoes and so on.
Definitely, as I say, not here,just as I say, colder all the
time, but they'll be coming andthey're growing really, really
well.
So, yeah, they're on thehorizon.
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The other things to watch outfor is weeds.
Definitely at this stage, wheatgrowth really increases in the
month of june you typically endup with, you know quite a bit of
so the seedlings start togerminate, typically through
april and by may time they'restarting to come, but they're
not that strong.
But in June you will noticequite a big burst of wheat
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growth.
The easiest way to keep on topof it is to keep tipping at that
all the time, especially ifyou're operating in no-dig beds.
Just pass through the beds on aregular basis once a week,
pulling out any little seedlings, and then it doesn't allow
anything to sort of take hold or, you know establish itself in
the bed.
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So just keep on top of it, niceand simple, regular, regular
rather than, you know, allowinga problem to develop and then
trying to combat it from thereon your tomatoes.
Keep them fed, you know,watered, keep driving them on,
keep tying them up as they'regoing.
Ensure as much as possible.
We've a kind of a blight warningover the last week and you know
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, I don't know how long that'sgoing to continue, but you're
going to look to keep theventilation for your tomatoes as
much as possible, keep thevents open where possible, keep
the doors open where possible,and all of the tips that I gave
a few weeks ago watering theground, not the plant, keeping
the leaves dry, doing anypruning in the morning time to
allow the the any wounds thatyou create while you're pruning
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to dry up ahead of the nighttime, and the more of those sort
of husbandry things that youcan do, the less likelihood
you're going to have ofdeveloping any kind of blight on
your tomatoes.
So watch out for that.
Outdoors then for blight forpotatoes.
That's where the big warninghas been over the last week.
We're looking at warmtemperatures, a good bit of
moisture, and they're idealconditions for blight.
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There is a couple of, you knowif you, particularly if you have
main crop potatoes, there's acouple of you know if you,
particularly if you have maincrop potatoes there's a couple
of different sprays that you canput on that you can use them,
but you do need to use them on aregular basis.
The other thing that you can do, which I do here, is seaweed
spray.
Seaweed on them on a weeklybasis really does strengthen the
(24:17):
plants, and I am using the probiocarbon liquid formulation,
which isn't strictly speakingfor blight, but I am seeing that
it's strengthening.
And I am using thepro-biocarbon liquid formulation
, which isn't strictly speakingfor blight, but I am seeing that
it's strengthening the plant,along with the seaweed.
It's strengthening the plantreally, really well and, fingers
crossed, it's going to continueto resist against any blight
that might be coming over thecoming weeks.
So, yeah, that's kind of thejobs for the month.
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It changes, you know.
Know, year to year, the list isthe same in terms of what you
can sow, but the conditions thatwe're finding at the various
times are changing, and while afew weeks ago we were talking
about, you know, really warm,sunny, dry conditions, certainly
over the last week there hasbeen last two, two weeks, maybe
even heading for three at thisstage.
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There's been a severe lack oflight and, you know, not really
getting sunny days.
We're getting these overcastdays.
Temperatures are up and down.
I saw somebody last week posteda photograph and it was really
interesting.
They had a max min thermometerin their greenhouse and if any
of you are seeing sporadic orstunted growth in greenhouses,
(25:24):
this is definitely why they hada maximum thermometer and the
maximum temperature in a 24-hourperiod was 38 degrees celsius
and the lowest temperature inthe same 24-hour period was
three degrees.
So when you have that much of avariance now maybe the, maybe
the doors or the vents were open, I don't know but to have a
(25:46):
variance like that in growth,what happens is the plants, no
matter what plants we're talkingabout those plants will get a
kind of a mini shock because tobe at a temperature of, you know
, 30s degrees now those can bereading slightly high depending
on where the position in thehouse, but let's say it's 30
degrees in the greenhouse andyou're getting that, the plants
(26:08):
are getting that, there's a lotof transpiration, they're,
they're really warm, the, thesoil is warm and all of that you
know, and then that night, youknow, within a short period of
time, there's temperatures offour degrees, three degrees,
four degrees.
That is a massive, massive dropand that's going to give the
(26:29):
plants little shocks.
And what happens when a plantgets a shock of any type,
whether they dry out or whetherthey get these big fluctuations
in in temperature, they actuallykind of stagnate a little bit.
And you will notice that andI've certainly noticed it myself
where there's certain certainthings were growing really well
and for the last kind of week or10 days it looks like they're
(26:50):
just sitting there.
Now all of a sudden they willkick off again, but they do kind
of go into a little state ofmini shock.
And if you're, if you'rewondering what's happening in
your tunnel, that's potentiallywhat it is or even outside in
your beds, because you know thesame thing is going to be
replicated where this week we'vehad morning time temperatures
really really cold when I sayreally cold, you know kind of
(27:13):
six degrees, seven degrees,eight degrees into in the early
mornings and then bymid-afternoon you're up to kind
of 20 degrees, 22 degrees, andagain that's a big variance, you
know, outside, and it is thosevariances that are going to
cause little kind of checks andlittle kind of holes within the
plant, but they will grow out ofit and it's.
It's no different.
(27:33):
You know, we get this kind ofevery year but it presents
itself in different ways.
But yeah, that's um, that's thekind of interesting weather and
it just goes to show that everyyear, when you cover this month
by month sowing guide, it'svery rare that one year to the
next, the month of June or themonth of May or the month of
(27:55):
April is the same, and that'scertainly true to form again
this year.
But there's loads to be sown.
But that's the main takeawaypoint is to continue to sow,
because during the month of June, as I say, your beds will be
full.
There's not going to be muchspace in your mind to say where
am I going to put thesevegetables when they're ready?
(28:15):
But definitely over the comingweeks you're going to start to
have harvest and as soon as youhave harvest, it's really nice
to have new plants, new sowingsto go in there and that will
mean that you're going to beable to create some longevity
into your harvest and utilizeyour space to the max.
So that's the takeaway fromtoday's episode is to continue
to sow.
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We'll be back next month withthe sowing month for the what?
The sowing month of july.
That will actually be quitequickly now, because this one
has gone a little bit later thanthan normal.
So, as I say, it's normally thefirst friday of the month, but
yeah, that's that's.
Sometimes these things happen,but hopefully you're all gonna
hear it in time to get, as Isaid, to get some benefit from
(28:58):
it again.
Thanks to everybody to come upand say hello on the weekend and
really nice to meet, to meetnew people, met some people that
you know listen to the podcast,but I had met them last year as
well and lovely to meet themagain.
But to the new people who, whoI haven't spoke to before, that
was really nice to to see on theweekend and yeah, that's been
this week's episode.
(29:19):
Thanks for listening and I'lltell you next time.
Happy gardening.
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