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today's episode. Hello everyone, and welcome back to Gardening with Ben. While
we're in June, Yes, we're nearly halfway through the year, and wow,
what a year it's been. We've not had the best of weather.
We've not had cold weather, but we've just had a lot of rain.
We've not had none of those heat wave summer days yet, which hopefully we
will get eventually, and hopefully it will help them crops get growing faster.
Obviously the rain is helping, as it says, your from watering, but
it encourages the slugs to come back and eat all your produce as well,
so there's two ways to it when you look at things. But yeah,
hopefully we'll get some decent weather coming soon. So today's episode is one of
the most popular episodes. It's talking about what jobs need doing in the allotment
and garden in June. And I know these very popular as they usually get
a lot of listeners to as some people like to a few tips and advice
on what they should be doing in the garden and the allotment. A lot
of people know what they're doing, but they're just like a little reminder of
the certain job which need doing. And usually in these episodes we talk about
what needs to be done in the vegetable garden, what needs to be done
in the fruit orchards, and what needs to be done in the flower beds.
So feel free to get a notepad and make some notes or keep listening
to it until you've got it all in your memory. The choices up to
you. But yeah, we're going to be talking first about what needs to
be done in the vegetable gardens. So one of the main things what a
lot of people will be growing will be tomato plants. You need to maintain
your too marches encourage them to grow up rather than bush out. So any
side shoes what start appearing, feel free to pull them off and this forces
the smart plants grow up and not on growing more leaves, and some of
those side shoes you can actually plant in the ground and get more to Martin
plants. So if you're wanted more smart plants, take off them side shoes
and stick them in the ground. If not, just chuck them away and
it will encourage the tomato plant to grow upwards rather than bush out. Marrown
corjet plants. If you've not planted these outside yet, these can be planted
out. Make sure you plant with a trail, making the show the soil
ball stays together, and water the plant immediately after planting so that they get
the strength and they settle in well. Usually sometimes I plant a plant pot
on the side of it, and I water into the plant pot so that
it gets right down to the roots and gives it the water there rather than
water in at the top, which can sometimes rop the stem off leaks.
If you've not planted your leaks out this month, choose the best ones that
are not that are growing to plant out. Drop the plants into holes.
Do not black fill the hole. Make sure your water into the holes and
the soil will fall back in place. If you backfill it, it will
damage the plant and it could snap them. So just water them in and
the holes will fill back up with soil around them, which is a lot
more safer and gently garlic. This may be ready to harvest at the end
of the month. You'll know that they're ready to harvest because the leaves will
start to go yellow and die back, which means they are ready to harvest.
And once you've harvested them, why not make use of that space and
plant some more plants out there. Lettuce, beate, root, radish.
All them are fast growing plants, so make sure you use that space and
get some stuff planted out. Onions as well as garlic, These will also
be getting ready to harvest at the end of the month when the leaves turn
yellow and fall flat and start dying back. This is when the onions are
ready. Potatoes. If you planted your potatoes like around March time, as
soon as they start popping their heads through the ground, cover them with more
soil. This will encourage more potatoes to grow. If you're planting potatoes and
containers. Make sure you don't like the compost dry our, but do not
over water them. If you planted the potatoes in March, they'll be getting
ready to harvest. They usually take her out ten to twelve weeks to grow
and be ready. You can keep an eye on the foliage dying back at
the top. That is an sign of when you know that they'll be ready
to pick. But yeah, I'm looking forward to my potatoes. I'm growing
mining boxes this year, and that is one thing that you have to do
is keep making sure that they're watered because the compost does dry out pretty fast
brassicas. Now is the time to be planted out your cabbages, cauliflowers,
and broccoli. Add extra protection around them. I should listen to this because
I certainly didn't do it, and add extra protection around them by using brassica
collages and covering with netting to stop the pigeons from me eating and cucumber plants.
Pinch out the ends of the cucumber plants when they've reached eight leaves.
Make sure the plants are water regularly. If you grow in these underglass like
a greenhouse or call fame, apply a whitewash or shading so that the sun
does not scorch the plants. So that is all the things that you need
to do in the vegetable garden this month. Obviously, in tomorrow's episode we'll
be talking about what the things are what you can plant in the vegetable garden,
so make sure you stay tuned for that episode. So what needs doing
in the flower garden? As I'm always learning about flowers. I don't know
much about flowers. I'm still learning all the time. So sweet peas.
Pick your sweet peas as soon as they start flowering. This will encourage more
flowers to grow on the plants. You'll be giving them away. You'll have
that many. The best way to water sweet peas is to miss them after
sunset or in the morning. And yeah, if you don't pick them,
they'll just go to seed and then they'll think that they've got to end at
season and they'll start to dive back. So just keep picking them, even
if they look nice outside, Just keep picking them because it will courage more
and more flowers to grow. Tall flowers. Support these by using canes.
You don't want them snapping in the windy weather, snowdrops when the plants start
to die off, lift the bulbs, divide them so that you'll get more
snowdrops next year. Wallflowers. At the end of June, you can sell
wallflowers and sweet william into their flowering positions. Hanging baskets. Make sure you
have hardened off all your hanging baskets before taking them outdoors. Make sure they
are well watered in the days as they soon dry out. If you want
to play safe, pad locket to your bracket to stop it from being pinched.
I've certainly seen that around before, people getting the hanging baskets pinched,
because they are worth a lot of money if you've got a good display from
them, and obviously keep pinching out the dead flowers, et cetera, et
cetera to keep them growing all through the summer. Dahlias, when your dailiers
begin to grow around three weeks after planting, you can pinch out the tip
of each main shoe. This will encourage the plant to become more bushy spring
pulbs. Once the foliage has died back, you can then trim the leaves
off. Don't trim them back before they have died back. Gladioli. When
the weather is dry, and make sure the ground has had a good soaking,
especially when you start to see the flower spikes appearing. I've certainly got
low to gladiolizing my alopment and looking forward to seeing all them growing futures.
To make the plant more brushy and gain more flowers, pinch the tips off
each stalk after the blacks. I've bought a lot of fusures and planted them
this week Roses. As roses die back, make sure your dead head them.
If you notice sending black spot, pull those leaves off. All my
climbing roses have just started coming out. They absolutely gorgeous popp is. Once
oriental poppies have finished flowing, cut them back to the ground. This will
encourage new growth honeysuckle and climatous. Help these climbing pants by tying them to
framework that they are growing up. Lavender. Why not harvest the heads from
me a lavender to use baking or to garnish your foods. So that is
all the jobs which need doing in the flower garden this month. Plenty to
keep you going again, make a list of them. Tick them off once
you've done them, and you can carry it on with all your other jobs.
Fruit plants, Now, this is my favorite bit. I do enjoy
my fruit plum trees. These trees can start to be pruned this month off
usly. All the fruit will be growing on them at this time of year,
but try not to disturb any fruit which is growing. Keep your eyes
on the tree that greenfly do not attack them. Try and protect the fruiting
trees from the birds if possible, and wasps. Wasps love plums strawberry plants.
Check your strawberry plants for them throwing runners out, which are strawberry plant
babies. Any that you see being sent out by the mother plant pegged them
down into the soil so that the root. If you see any strawberry plants
developing gray mold, destroy that fruit. This can happen in very damp weather.
Watch out for other pests attacking strawberries. Cover them with netting to protect
from the birds. Use slug traps to catch the slugs. Apple trees,
keep your eye out on the tree for greenfly. Also keep your eye for
spider mite. Where you see a heavy set of fruit, fin them out,
but watch out as in June and the beginning of July there can be
a heavy drop off fruit. Make sure the fruit trees are receiving extra water
at this time off year. BlackBerry and loganberries. These two fruits need help
when growing. Make sure you fasten the stems to supports so that they are
off the ground and the pests cannot eat them. Black currants, you can
help the plant by encouraging new growth on the bush. By watering the bush.
You even you can even mulch with compost or manure goosberries. If you
can see a goosberry bush creating a heavy crop, you can fit them out.
This will improve the size of the gooseberries. Just watch out for the
fawns as they can really hurt. Cut off any of the new lactual shoots
to leave around five leaves. This will encourage the fruit bush to put all
its effort into growing the fruit. Featuring nectaren trees, watch out for greenfly
on the tree and treat as appropriate. Raspberries. Make sure you water raspberry
plants well during dry days as the fruit starts to develop and it will help
it to swell. So that is everything that needs doing in the fruit garden.
Like I say, these episodes are usually longer as we like to go
into detail of what need doing. I hope you've found all that useful and
all them tips again. Like say, if you didn't get all them tips
and advice, feel free to listen to it again and write them down as
you go along, and then you can tick them off as you accomplish them,
and then you can go on to the other gardening jobs that you need
to do, because there's always plenty of jobs that need doing around the garden.
I know that for sure. I never get to the end of my
list. As soon as I'm starting to get close to it, I'm starting
again by creating another list and keep getting that band read out of my allotment.
I'll never get it to the end of getting all the band read out
of the plot, but it keeps me going and keeps me busy. So
yeah, make sure you do come back for tomorrow's episode because we're going to
be talking about all the plants what you can be planting in the garden at
this time of year, so make sure you stay tuned for that. If
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