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episode. Hey, everyone is Gardening with Ben here for a brand new episode
today. It will be continuing with our podcast from yesterday. Yesterday's podcast was
talking about all the jobs and all the task what needs doing in the allotment
and garden for this month. So if you've not listened to that, make
sure you go and have a listen to it. Getting notepad ready and get
writing those jobs and tasks down, as there's always plenty of little jobs and
tasks around the garden and a lotment that you don't think about doing, so
make sure you go back and have a listen to that episode if you've not
listened to it. But today's episode, we're going to be talking about all
the things that you can get growing in the allotment and in the garden and
in the flowerbeds and the fruit areas at this time of the month, as
there's still plenty of time to get growing stuff and filling all those gaps where
crops may have failed or not grown properly or been eaten away by the pestikey
slugs and pigeons, a bit like what I get done. So yeah,
make sure you get a notepad for this episode, because then you can make
a list of the things that you can get growing, and we'll start off
with what can be grown in the vegetable garden them. So in the vegetable
garden this month you can be growing some beetroot. Most of these are for
the last month of the things that you can actually get growing. So beetroot
is one of the last things that you can sew this month. You can't
probably saw it later on in the year. Now is probably the last month
to be growing your beetroot. You can have a sew that in the ground
or in seed trays and then transplant it. But yeah, get some beetroot
in the ground to fill all those gaps in broccoli. Start broccoli off in
seed trays or directly in the ground and these will be harvest in all the
way through summer and autumn time. So if you're wanting late crops off broccoli,
now is the time to be sowing them Carrots. You've still got plenty
of time to get growing some carrots. So if you've got some good beds,
what are easy for carrots to grow in, because they don't like stony
soil, now is the time to be growing some carrots. Causeetes, if
you call jets, have failed quite often. They do birds to eat them,
or the stems all rotten, they won't grow properly. You've still got
time to grow some corsejet plants, So sew some corjats and get them growing
and you'll still get some great crops from them. Cucumbers, these need to
be in the final position now, whether it be in the buckets, whether
it be in growbags or in the ground. You need to have got these
in the ground by now. But make sure they're protected from the slugs because
the slugs do love to eat them. French beans. This is now the
last month to be sewing your french beans straight in the ground. The same
grows pet For the peas, this is the last month to be growing pieces.
So if you want to late crop of peas, get some grown.
And I I said some last week. Some peas so as my other piece
are doing really well water in the ground at the moment, so I want
a second crop later on to I've sewn a load more peas peppers. Plant
your peppers into the final place a bit like your cucumbers. Get them and
get them growing. The same growth for tomatoes. Get your tomatoes in the
final place ready to start fruiting. Radish and spring onions. These can be
sown this month. So again, if you've got little spaces, little gaps,
get some radish, get some spring onion in and you can be having
them any sandwiches pretty soon because radish don't take long to grow whatsoever. Turnips
you can sew these straight directly into the ground for crops later on in the
year. So if you wanted some turnips, fill the gaps in, possibly
from where you've harvested from your garlic or your onions, because they'll be coming
to the end now, so you'll have a gap where they are. Why
not sow some turnips and get them growing fruits now, there's not many fruits
to be swing this month, to be honest, is none that you can
plant this month. The only thing for fruits is for the melons. Make
sure they're in the final place, a bit like you cut cumbers and your
peppers and your smatoes. Make sure they're in the final place, and keep
them supported as they get growing up netting. If you're growing them up netting.
What flowers can be planted this month, Well, there's not many flowers
left to be planted this month. And one of my main flowers what I
do love to grow is colundle. They are absolutely beautiful and they always do
really well with lots of color, and they bush out spread about and they
make the place look absolutely gorgeous and the bees love them. The same girls
for sunflowers. If you've not started any sunflowers, off to see who you
can get the toilet sunflower. You've still got time to be growing some flowers,
So get some sunflowers in quick and you can have some beautiful displays,
especially for the bees, and maybe you'll be eating the seeds as well,
because you can eat the sunflower seeds pans is. Yeah, we're going to
be thinking about winter. If you're wanting some color for the winter, now
is the time to be sewing those pansy seeds and getting them growing for winter.
So that is everything that you can sow in June. There's not a
load of things left what we can be getting growing, but there's quite a
few. And I hope you found this useful and let me know what you're
going to be sewing this month. I've certainly got quite a bit of stuff
growing down at the allotment. I've started a few things off from stuff that
I've failed with or whether I want to later crop with, or whether I
want to fill the gaps in my beds. I've started quite a lot of
stuff off this last week as I want to get some more stuff growing,
and hopefully we do. And this is the month when we will start harvesting.
Stuff will be harvested as strawberries, will be harvested as lettuce, possibly
spring onions, as potatoes like that. So it's exciting that this month we'll
be starting to collect all this produce what we have been concentrating on growing and
when you're harvesting your first lot of produce, it's absolutely amazing the taste,
the texture, and you'll soon make a lot of friends because they'll all want
to be tasting them. But yeah, this is an exciting month down at
the allotment Garden. So I hope you found this useful for today. Like
I said, if you've not managed to make notes, why not listen to
it again and make some notes of all the things that you can get growing
and fill those spaces in. So I hope you've enjoyed it. Remember keep
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