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June Garden

• Pinch out any side shoots from your tomato plants and feed once the first truss is setting fruit. You can pot up the side-shoots to create new tomato plants.
• • Continue to earth up potato plants as they grow. If you're growing potatoes in bags simply add more compost to half way up the plant stem.
• • Harvest salad crops and resow every 2 weeks for a constant supply of tasty leaves.
• • Harvest early potatoes - these are normally ready from 10 weeks after planting.
• • Look out for onion and garlic leaves yellowing and dying back - this means they are ready to harvest!
• • Plant out tender vegetables such as courgettes, squash, tomatoes and sweet corn now the risk of frost has passed.
• • When planting out cabbages, use cabbage collars to prevent cabbage root fly attack.
• • There is still time to plant runner beans - sow them directly in the ground now.
• • Protect crops from carrot fly by covering with horticultural fleece or enviromesh.