Allotment Jobs For June - Allotment Gardening For Beginners

Today we have our allotment jobs for June roundup in our allotment gardening for beginners in the UK videos. The June jobs on ...

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🌱 June is a high activity month on the allotment, making it an exciting time for gardeners as conditions are ideal for a variety of tasks.

🍎 Applying lime around apple and pear trees can prevent storage issues and brown marks on the fruit, enhancing their quality and longevity.

🌼 Weeding and laying mulch, such as bark, can significantly reduce weed growth and maintenance efforts.

🐦 Protecting fruit like gooseberries and currents with netting is essential to prevent birds from eating the crop before it can be harvested.

🌿 Now is a time to thin out seedlings such as carrots, lettuce, beetroot, and parsley if they appear too dense, ensuring better growth.

🥔 Earthing up potatoes and using grass clippings can improve their growth; it is also a method to conserve moisture and make the most of available resources.

🌱 This is a great time for planting or sowing seeds due to quick germination from the warm weather, including crops like carrots, radishes, parsnips, and spring onions.

🌾 For plants like squashes, courgettes, and pumpkins, placing canes can help identify the center of the plant for more effective watering or feeding.

🐜 Netting brassicas is crucial to protect them from birds and the white cabbage butterfly, ensuring the plants are not damaged during their growth.

🍓 Regular watering and slug patrol are essential, particularly for fruiting plants like tomatoes and strawberries, to ensure quality fruit and preventing pests.

Timestamped Summary

00:56 The video host talks about applying lime around apple and pear trees to help prevent browning of the fruit and improve storage.

01:20 She discusses weeding activities and mulching with bark around the fruit cage area to suppress weeds.

01:45 Covering fruit like gooseberries and blackcurrants with netting or mesh to protect them from birds.

02:23 Plans to harvest garlic in June, depending on when it was planted. She advises waiting if they have received a lot of rain recently for the bulbs to grow bigger.

03:15 Recommends digging the allotment now before another potential dry spell makes it hard.

03:38 Talks about sowing seeds like carrots, lettuce, beetroot, and parsley, and the possibility of thinning them out.

05:35 Planning to plant out squashes, courgettes, and pumpkins.

06:46 Mention of starting off bright lights chard, whether direct sowing or starting in module trays at home.

07:37 Discusses planting out brassicas, the importance of starting off well, and the necessity of covering them to protect from birds and cabbage butterflies.

08:17 At home, maintaining tomatoes by removing side shoots and feeding them, as well as ensuring strawberries are watered regularly, and protecting them from birds and slugs.

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Q&A

What are the essential jobs to do in an allotment during June?

In June, you should consider weeding, planting out or sowing new seeds like carrots, lettuce, beetroot, parsley, radishes, parsnips, and spring onions. Earth up potatoes and cover any fruit bushes like gooseberries to protect them from birds. You should also be getting squashes, courgettes, and pumpkins planted out. Thinning out germinated seedlings is also advisable.

Why is it important to put lime around apple and pear trees?

Putting lime around apple and pear trees helps prevent the fruit from developing brown marks on the flesh, which can also affect their storage quality. It's an annual practice to stop this from happening.

What can be done to manage potato growth and protect them?

For potatoes, earthing them up is essential. You can also use grass clippings on the earthed-up potatoes as it is said to be beneficial and helps retain moisture.

When should garlic be harvested, and what depends on it?

Garlic should be harvested in June if it was planted around October and is showing signs of large bulbs. However, the timing can depend on when you planted it and the amount of recent rainfall, which can affect bulb size.

What is the advantage of marking the center of squash, courgette, and pumpkin plants with canes?

Marking the center of these plants with canes helps you to know exactly where to water or feed them as they grow and expand, making it otherwise difficult to find the plant's center.

How can you protect brassicas effectively in the garden?

Covering your brassicas is very important to protect them from birds and the white cabbage butterfly. An enviro mesh or green scaffolding net can be used to keep the pests away.

Which vegetables can be started in June and also harvested?

You can start bright lights chard and also harvest them. You can directly sow seeds or start them in module trays. Additionally, looking after tomato and strawberry plants is crucial, including feeding tomatoes and regular watering, as well as protecting strawberries from birds and slugs.