1 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:06,719 Hello, and welcome to Gardening with Ben. You'll go to a podcast for 2 00:00:06,839 --> 00:00:12,039 all things green and growing. I'm Ben, your allotment guide and here to 3 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:17,079 help you cultivate your garden and your passion for plants. Whether you're a seasoned 4 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:22,440 gardener or just starting out, this podcast is for you. Each episode will 5 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:26,920 dig into tips, tricks, and techniques to make your garden and allotment thrive 6 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:31,679 from planting, sewing, and growing. We will share all the tips and 7 00:00:31,719 --> 00:00:37,399 add advice. We will also have regular episodes talking about what we have been 8 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:42,159 up to on the Alltment. So sit back, grab a brew and enjoy 9 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:50,759 today's episode. Hello everyone, and welcome back to Gardening with Ben. While 10 00:00:50,759 --> 00:00:57,079 we're in June, Yes, we're nearly halfway through the year, and wow, 11 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:00,079 what a year it's been. We've not had the best of weather. 12 00:01:00,159 --> 00:01:03,840 We've not had cold weather, but we've just had a lot of rain. 13 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:10,359 We've not had none of those heat wave summer days yet, which hopefully we 14 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:15,760 will get eventually, and hopefully it will help them crops get growing faster. 15 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:19,840 Obviously the rain is helping, as it says, your from watering, but 16 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:25,200 it encourages the slugs to come back and eat all your produce as well, 17 00:01:25,599 --> 00:01:29,439 so there's two ways to it when you look at things. But yeah, 18 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:34,719 hopefully we'll get some decent weather coming soon. So today's episode is one of 19 00:01:34,799 --> 00:01:41,920 the most popular episodes. It's talking about what jobs need doing in the allotment 20 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,959 and garden in June. And I know these very popular as they usually get 21 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:52,519 a lot of listeners to as some people like to a few tips and advice 22 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:55,519 on what they should be doing in the garden and the allotment. A lot 23 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:59,159 of people know what they're doing, but they're just like a little reminder of 24 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:02,959 the certain job which need doing. And usually in these episodes we talk about 25 00:02:04,239 --> 00:02:07,200 what needs to be done in the vegetable garden, what needs to be done 26 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,039 in the fruit orchards, and what needs to be done in the flower beds. 27 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:15,960 So feel free to get a notepad and make some notes or keep listening 28 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,479 to it until you've got it all in your memory. The choices up to 29 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:23,240 you. But yeah, we're going to be talking first about what needs to 30 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:29,199 be done in the vegetable gardens. So one of the main things what a 31 00:02:29,199 --> 00:02:32,159 lot of people will be growing will be tomato plants. You need to maintain 32 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:37,680 your too marches encourage them to grow up rather than bush out. So any 33 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:42,639 side shoes what start appearing, feel free to pull them off and this forces 34 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:46,759 the smart plants grow up and not on growing more leaves, and some of 35 00:02:46,759 --> 00:02:52,199 those side shoes you can actually plant in the ground and get more to Martin 36 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:55,199 plants. So if you're wanted more smart plants, take off them side shoes 37 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:59,639 and stick them in the ground. If not, just chuck them away and 38 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:04,759 it will encourage the tomato plant to grow upwards rather than bush out. Marrown 39 00:03:04,879 --> 00:03:08,240 corjet plants. If you've not planted these outside yet, these can be planted 40 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:13,240 out. Make sure you plant with a trail, making the show the soil 41 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:20,840 ball stays together, and water the plant immediately after planting so that they get 42 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:24,800 the strength and they settle in well. Usually sometimes I plant a plant pot 43 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:29,039 on the side of it, and I water into the plant pot so that 44 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:32,159 it gets right down to the roots and gives it the water there rather than 45 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:38,599 water in at the top, which can sometimes rop the stem off leaks. 46 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:42,360 If you've not planted your leaks out this month, choose the best ones that 47 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:46,639 are not that are growing to plant out. Drop the plants into holes. 48 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:53,000 Do not black fill the hole. Make sure your water into the holes and 49 00:03:53,039 --> 00:03:55,680 the soil will fall back in place. If you backfill it, it will 50 00:03:55,800 --> 00:04:00,599 damage the plant and it could snap them. So just water them in and 51 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:03,800 the holes will fill back up with soil around them, which is a lot 52 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:10,360 more safer and gently garlic. This may be ready to harvest at the end 53 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:13,520 of the month. You'll know that they're ready to harvest because the leaves will 54 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:16,319 start to go yellow and die back, which means they are ready to harvest. 55 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:20,639 And once you've harvested them, why not make use of that space and 56 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:26,879 plant some more plants out there. Lettuce, beate, root, radish. 57 00:04:27,199 --> 00:04:30,120 All them are fast growing plants, so make sure you use that space and 58 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:35,240 get some stuff planted out. Onions as well as garlic, These will also 59 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:39,560 be getting ready to harvest at the end of the month when the leaves turn 60 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:43,720 yellow and fall flat and start dying back. This is when the onions are 61 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:48,319 ready. Potatoes. If you planted your potatoes like around March time, as 62 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:51,360 soon as they start popping their heads through the ground, cover them with more 63 00:04:51,399 --> 00:04:56,720 soil. This will encourage more potatoes to grow. If you're planting potatoes and 64 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:00,759 containers. Make sure you don't like the compost dry our, but do not 65 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:04,600 over water them. If you planted the potatoes in March, they'll be getting 66 00:05:04,639 --> 00:05:09,079 ready to harvest. They usually take her out ten to twelve weeks to grow 67 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:13,199 and be ready. You can keep an eye on the foliage dying back at 68 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:16,600 the top. That is an sign of when you know that they'll be ready 69 00:05:16,639 --> 00:05:20,879 to pick. But yeah, I'm looking forward to my potatoes. I'm growing 70 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:25,319 mining boxes this year, and that is one thing that you have to do 71 00:05:25,439 --> 00:05:29,839 is keep making sure that they're watered because the compost does dry out pretty fast 72 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:33,160 brassicas. Now is the time to be planted out your cabbages, cauliflowers, 73 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:39,199 and broccoli. Add extra protection around them. I should listen to this because 74 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:45,120 I certainly didn't do it, and add extra protection around them by using brassica 75 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:53,519 collages and covering with netting to stop the pigeons from me eating and cucumber plants. 76 00:05:53,879 --> 00:05:57,279 Pinch out the ends of the cucumber plants when they've reached eight leaves. 77 00:05:57,399 --> 00:06:01,319 Make sure the plants are water regularly. If you grow in these underglass like 78 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:06,079 a greenhouse or call fame, apply a whitewash or shading so that the sun 79 00:06:06,319 --> 00:06:11,639 does not scorch the plants. So that is all the things that you need 80 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:15,839 to do in the vegetable garden this month. Obviously, in tomorrow's episode we'll 81 00:06:15,879 --> 00:06:19,519 be talking about what the things are what you can plant in the vegetable garden, 82 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:24,360 so make sure you stay tuned for that episode. So what needs doing 83 00:06:24,439 --> 00:06:28,879 in the flower garden? As I'm always learning about flowers. I don't know 84 00:06:28,959 --> 00:06:32,079 much about flowers. I'm still learning all the time. So sweet peas. 85 00:06:32,199 --> 00:06:36,319 Pick your sweet peas as soon as they start flowering. This will encourage more 86 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:40,519 flowers to grow on the plants. You'll be giving them away. You'll have 87 00:06:40,639 --> 00:06:44,360 that many. The best way to water sweet peas is to miss them after 88 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:48,360 sunset or in the morning. And yeah, if you don't pick them, 89 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:51,439 they'll just go to seed and then they'll think that they've got to end at 90 00:06:51,439 --> 00:06:56,480 season and they'll start to dive back. So just keep picking them, even 91 00:06:56,480 --> 00:07:00,600 if they look nice outside, Just keep picking them because it will courage more 92 00:07:00,639 --> 00:07:04,079 and more flowers to grow. Tall flowers. Support these by using canes. 93 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:10,839 You don't want them snapping in the windy weather, snowdrops when the plants start 94 00:07:10,879 --> 00:07:14,680 to die off, lift the bulbs, divide them so that you'll get more 95 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:18,720 snowdrops next year. Wallflowers. At the end of June, you can sell 96 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:27,120 wallflowers and sweet william into their flowering positions. Hanging baskets. Make sure you 97 00:07:27,199 --> 00:07:30,959 have hardened off all your hanging baskets before taking them outdoors. Make sure they 98 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:35,360 are well watered in the days as they soon dry out. If you want 99 00:07:35,399 --> 00:07:41,000 to play safe, pad locket to your bracket to stop it from being pinched. 100 00:07:41,439 --> 00:07:44,959 I've certainly seen that around before, people getting the hanging baskets pinched, 101 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,720 because they are worth a lot of money if you've got a good display from 102 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:53,240 them, and obviously keep pinching out the dead flowers, et cetera, et 103 00:07:53,319 --> 00:07:59,000 cetera to keep them growing all through the summer. Dahlias, when your dailiers 104 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:03,199 begin to grow around three weeks after planting, you can pinch out the tip 105 00:08:03,319 --> 00:08:07,920 of each main shoe. This will encourage the plant to become more bushy spring 106 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,879 pulbs. Once the foliage has died back, you can then trim the leaves 107 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:18,240 off. Don't trim them back before they have died back. Gladioli. When 108 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:22,120 the weather is dry, and make sure the ground has had a good soaking, 109 00:08:22,639 --> 00:08:26,240 especially when you start to see the flower spikes appearing. I've certainly got 110 00:08:26,399 --> 00:08:31,679 low to gladiolizing my alopment and looking forward to seeing all them growing futures. 111 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:35,840 To make the plant more brushy and gain more flowers, pinch the tips off 112 00:08:35,919 --> 00:08:41,600 each stalk after the blacks. I've bought a lot of fusures and planted them 113 00:08:41,639 --> 00:08:48,960 this week Roses. As roses die back, make sure your dead head them. 114 00:08:48,039 --> 00:08:52,679 If you notice sending black spot, pull those leaves off. All my 115 00:08:52,759 --> 00:08:58,759 climbing roses have just started coming out. They absolutely gorgeous popp is. Once 116 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:03,240 oriental poppies have finished flowing, cut them back to the ground. This will 117 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:09,879 encourage new growth honeysuckle and climatous. Help these climbing pants by tying them to 118 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:16,799 framework that they are growing up. Lavender. Why not harvest the heads from 119 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:22,559 me a lavender to use baking or to garnish your foods. So that is 120 00:09:22,759 --> 00:09:26,879 all the jobs which need doing in the flower garden this month. Plenty to 121 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:28,879 keep you going again, make a list of them. Tick them off once 122 00:09:28,919 --> 00:09:33,600 you've done them, and you can carry it on with all your other jobs. 123 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:37,679 Fruit plants, Now, this is my favorite bit. I do enjoy 124 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:43,960 my fruit plum trees. These trees can start to be pruned this month off 125 00:09:45,039 --> 00:09:48,279 usly. All the fruit will be growing on them at this time of year, 126 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:52,320 but try not to disturb any fruit which is growing. Keep your eyes 127 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:56,639 on the tree that greenfly do not attack them. Try and protect the fruiting 128 00:09:56,759 --> 00:10:03,919 trees from the birds if possible, and wasps. Wasps love plums strawberry plants. 129 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:09,320 Check your strawberry plants for them throwing runners out, which are strawberry plant 130 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:13,799 babies. Any that you see being sent out by the mother plant pegged them 131 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:18,279 down into the soil so that the root. If you see any strawberry plants 132 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:24,320 developing gray mold, destroy that fruit. This can happen in very damp weather. 133 00:10:24,879 --> 00:10:28,200 Watch out for other pests attacking strawberries. Cover them with netting to protect 134 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:33,799 from the birds. Use slug traps to catch the slugs. Apple trees, 135 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:39,200 keep your eye out on the tree for greenfly. Also keep your eye for 136 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:43,639 spider mite. Where you see a heavy set of fruit, fin them out, 137 00:10:43,799 --> 00:10:48,480 but watch out as in June and the beginning of July there can be 138 00:10:48,759 --> 00:10:54,039 a heavy drop off fruit. Make sure the fruit trees are receiving extra water 139 00:10:54,240 --> 00:11:00,840 at this time off year. BlackBerry and loganberries. These two fruits need help 140 00:11:00,879 --> 00:11:03,679 when growing. Make sure you fasten the stems to supports so that they are 141 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:09,559 off the ground and the pests cannot eat them. Black currants, you can 142 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:13,519 help the plant by encouraging new growth on the bush. By watering the bush. 143 00:11:13,879 --> 00:11:20,000 You even you can even mulch with compost or manure goosberries. If you 144 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:24,759 can see a goosberry bush creating a heavy crop, you can fit them out. 145 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:28,240 This will improve the size of the gooseberries. Just watch out for the 146 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:33,120 fawns as they can really hurt. Cut off any of the new lactual shoots 147 00:11:33,279 --> 00:11:37,320 to leave around five leaves. This will encourage the fruit bush to put all 148 00:11:37,399 --> 00:11:41,799 its effort into growing the fruit. Featuring nectaren trees, watch out for greenfly 149 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:48,279 on the tree and treat as appropriate. Raspberries. Make sure you water raspberry 150 00:11:48,279 --> 00:11:52,840 plants well during dry days as the fruit starts to develop and it will help 151 00:11:52,879 --> 00:11:58,000 it to swell. So that is everything that needs doing in the fruit garden. 152 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:01,919 Like I say, these episodes are usually longer as we like to go 153 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:05,799 into detail of what need doing. I hope you've found all that useful and 154 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:09,559 all them tips again. Like say, if you didn't get all them tips 155 00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:13,360 and advice, feel free to listen to it again and write them down as 156 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:18,000 you go along, and then you can tick them off as you accomplish them, 157 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:22,279 and then you can go on to the other gardening jobs that you need 158 00:12:22,279 --> 00:12:26,840 to do, because there's always plenty of jobs that need doing around the garden. 159 00:12:26,879 --> 00:12:28,360 I know that for sure. I never get to the end of my 160 00:12:28,519 --> 00:12:33,200 list. As soon as I'm starting to get close to it, I'm starting 161 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:37,519 again by creating another list and keep getting that band read out of my allotment. 162 00:12:37,879 --> 00:12:39,600 I'll never get it to the end of getting all the band read out 163 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:43,559 of the plot, but it keeps me going and keeps me busy. So 164 00:12:43,759 --> 00:12:48,440 yeah, make sure you do come back for tomorrow's episode because we're going to 165 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:52,720 be talking about all the plants what you can be planting in the garden at 166 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:54,559 this time of year, so make sure you stay tuned for that. If 167 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:58,080 you're not following us, do give us a follower, Please do give this 168 00:12:58,159 --> 00:13:03,399 podcast a lie, give it a comment, and feel free to share it 169 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:05,960 so that we get more and more people listening to these podcasts, and it 170 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:09,600 certainly encourages me to do more episodes for you. Now that we've got this 171 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:13,639 new equipment, it does sound tons better for you to listen to. So 172 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:20,960 until tomorrow's episode, remember, keep smiling, keep shining, and keep gardening 173 00:13:20,159 --> 00:13:28,919 with everyone. 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