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What to do in your garden this month
June 2008
Garden Borders
- Plant summer bedding
- Prune shrubs that flowered in spring.
- Clip hedges
Water newly planted borders in dry spells
- Remove faded flowers from roses and border plants.
- Check for pests and diseases.
Fruit
- Put straw between strawberry plants to act as a mulch.
- Thin out raspberry canes, tie into supports
Harvest rhubarb regularly.
- Pick early strawberries.
- Mulch raspberry canes.
- Put netting over soft fruit to prevent birds from taking berries.
Vegetables
- Harvest early potatoes.
- Thin vegetable seedling to prevent overcrowding
Hoe between rows of vegetables to keep down weeds.
- Sow seeds of broad beans, beetroot, cabbage, carrots, lettuce, peas, rocket and other early vegetables outdoors.
- Plant outdoor tomatoes.
Water onions well to keep bulbs growing.
Greenhouse
- Train and feed cucumbers and melons.
- Feed tomatoes once a week.
- Continue to sow cut and come again lettuce.
- Feed all plants in active growth.
- Ventilate the greenhouse on warm, sunny days.
- Ponds
Keep ponds clear of weed.
General tips
- Mow lawns regularly and give a summer dressing of fertilizer.
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