Jobs for June
Fruit, Vegetables, Flowers, Shrubs, Lawns and Greenhouses - Gardening Jobs for June
Jobs for June
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FruitList Item 1
- Thin surplus fruit
- Propagate strawberries from runners
- Begin summer pruning of apples and pears
- Thin peach fruits
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VegetablesList Item 2
- Continue successive sowings
- Harvest vegetables
- Cut asparagus until the end of June, then stop cutting
- Earth up late potatoes
- Thin crowded rows
- Plant out sprouts, cauliflower, marrows, tomatoes and leeks
- Water thoroughly when dry
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FlowersList Item 3
- Continue dead heading
- Cut back early flowering herbaceous to get a second flush of flowers in early autumn
- Finish planting out half hardy annuals
- Divide May flowering perennials
- Divide overgrown clumps of bulbs
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ShrubsList Item 4
- Spray roses to prevent blackspot, mildew, rust and aphid
- Plant out standard fuchsias
- Prune philadphus, deutzia and spirea after flowering
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Lawns
- Continue moving the lawn
- Kill lawn weeds
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Greenhouse
- Shade the greenhouse
- Improve ventilation
