Gardening Jobs For June
06/06/2014
With summer upon us most gardens will be bursting into life. If you’re lucky enough to have a garden make the most of it, if you haven’t, remember just how much colour, pleasure and food you can get from pots, containers and growbags.
It’s now time to complete the planting out of all bedding and half-hardy plants. Gaps in flower borders can be filled up with quick-growing annuals such as sweet peas and morning glory. In hanging baskets use pansies, petunias and black-eyed Susan for an instant splash of colour.
Vegetable gardeners should hopefully be harvesting early summer cabbages and cauliflower this month. Now’s the time to sow vegetable crops, such as a lettuce mix, or courgettes directly into the soil and don’t forget you can grow a range of tasty vegetables in large pots and growbags. Most lettuces can be planted from until the end of September or October. Spinach, beans, rocket, and courgettes all take minimal effort to grow and are great beginners' plants.
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Top 10 jobs this month
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Hoe borders regularly to keep down weeds
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Be water-wise, especially in drought-affected areas
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Pinch out sideshoots on tomatoes
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Harvest lettuce, radish, other salads and early potatoes
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Position summer hanging baskets and containers outside
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Mow lawns at least once a week - Petrol Lawnmowers
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Plant out summer bedding
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Stake tall or floppy plants
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Prune many spring-flowering shrubs
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Shade greenhouses to keep them cool and prevent scorch