Allotment advice and tips - June - Sunny predominately dry days possible heat waves so mulching and watering is the order of the day .....

Month by month guide:
Vegetables, Herbs and Fruit.

Vegetables Herbs and Fruit to put on the table this month:
Asparagus
Broad Beans
Broccoli
Spring Cabbage
Kohl Rabi
Lettuce
Spring Onion
Peas
Early Potatoes
Radish
Spinach

Gooseberry
Strawberry

What to do in the allotment in June? Apart from harvesting the above.

General Tasks
Plant Brussel Sprouts, winter Cabbages, Savoys and broccoli.
Plant Marrows.
Plant outdoor Tomatoes and support with 4 ft canes if not bush variety.
Continue sowing salad crops, peas and French Beans.
Plant out Leeks.
Sow Spinach Beet
Cease cutting Asparagus and support ferny growth with canes and string
Dressing of quick acting fertilizer (dried comfrey or nettle) and water in.
Water generously to requirements.
Feed the birds.

Vegetables:
Finish sowing Maincrop Carrots.
For Marrow, Squash, Pumpkin and Courgette's prepare early in the month by digging holes a foot square. 3 foot apart. Forkful of well rotted manure or dried seaweed sludge. Replace soil and draw up into a mound. Sow a couple of seeds direct or place your raised seedlings in. Leave strongest seed to grow on.
Sow Runner Beans.
Prepare sites for outdoor Tomatoes as Marrows above but 12 - 15 inches apart.
Sow French Beans mid month.
Set out Cauliflower plants sown last month 2 foot apart.
Making further sowings of spinach and salad crops.

Sow self blanching celery and chicory

Under Glass:
Shade frames and cloches.
Remove tips from cucumbers when seven leaves have formed and weekly feed with liquid manure

Herbs:
Further sowing of Chervil and Dill
Insert Rosemary and Sage cuttings
Start picking herbs especially for winter freezing

Fruit:
Watch for pests and diseases.
Thin fruit crops if heavy.
Harvest Strawberries.
Spray apples and pears, blackberries, loganberries, gooseberries, peaches, nectarines, plums, damsons,cherries and raspberries.
Water and mulch apples, pears and blackcurrants
Check ties and stakes.
Tie sacking round apples and pear trunks to catch apple blossom weevils.
Destroy fruit attacked by sawfly.
Train in new blackberry and loganberry shoots.
Protect fruiting plum, cherry, damson, redcurrant, strawberry and raspberries against the birds
Anchor heavy strawberry runners to produce new plants.
Summer prune outdoor vines.

More suggestions?

Some suggestions that have been sent in.

Composting: All you need to know

Manure: Some suggested uses

Wormeries: How to create a wormery.

If you have any advice on anything to do with allotments please contribute.