Allotment Month Planner - June
General
- Continue successional sowings from May
- Weeding
- Watering if weather is dry
- Watch for early signs of any pests/diseases
Potato Family
- Water Potatoes once a week to ensure good yields.
- Tomatoes should be hardened off and planted out
- first new potatoes
Harvest
Legumes
- continue to sow peas for a succession of crops; water once the flowers fade and the pods begin to swell. Any earlier only encourages foliage growth at the expense of the pods
- Pinch top shoots of Broad Beans
- Continue sowing French Beans
- Plant Dwarf French and Runner beans once all danger of frost has passed. Sow them directly if they have not been started in pots
- If first crop of peas is ready, pick regularaly to encourage other pods
- Water regularly as legumes come into flower and pods fill
- autumn-sown Broad Beans and Peas
Harvest
Brassicas
- Transplant any brassica seedlings ready this month
- Plant out autumn/winter cabbage, winter cauliflower, sprouting broccoli and kale started in pots
- Plant out late sowings of summer cabbages, summer cauliflowers and calabrese
- Keep an eye out for Cabbage White butterflys and their eggs. Rub any eggs off leaves and remove caterpillars by hand.
- Radishes, Rocket, and Turnips
Harvest
Onions
- lift and dry Japanese onions that were planted last autumn
- Pull soil off onions to let sun ripen them.
- transplant leeks (see opposite)
- Spring Onions, Japanese/over-wintered Onions
Harvest
Roots
- Do not allow carrots to dry out
- continue to sow beetroot, turnips and swedes for a succession or as an intercrop
- plant out celeriac
- sow florence fennel 2 or 3 seeds per pot and thin out when rooted. Plant out seedlings 12in apart when there are two or more true leaves - keep well watered and weed-free
- Carrots
- early sowings of spinach and spinach beet
Harvest
Other Vegetables
- Pinch cucumber and marrow tips; keep soil moist and mulch; feed.
- Not too late to sow the squash family direct in your beds; sow two seeds together and pull out the weakest if both germinate.
- Marrows, Courgettes and squashes can be trained up netting or a trellis and this saves space as well as keeping the fruit clean
- Asparagus (until mid-month), Beetroot, Lettuce, Spinach; last year's chard may still give you a picking, before it is completely exhausted
Harvest
Herbs
- Sow parsley for next spring
- Remove flower heads from mints and lemon balm
Fruit
- Make sure fruit bushes have plenty of water; conserve moisture by mulching (try some grass cuttings)
- Protect strawberries with mulch of straw, and netting
- Protect fruit bushes from birds; try using cotton thread or netting.
- Pick fruit as it ripens since ripe fruit left unpicked will quickly spoil and attract pests and disease.
- Rhubarb, gooseberries, strawberries; pick fruit as it comes ready.
Transplant Leek seedlings when they are about 8in (20cm) high and pencil thick. They're going to need a lot of nitrogen since they will be in the ground for a long time - put a general fertiliser on their intended final position a week before transplanting. Make a hole 1in or more wide and 6in (15cm) deep with a dibber. Drop in the leek and fill the hole with water but NOT soil. Plant leeks 6in apart with 12in between rows. Once they have thickened to about 1/2in start to 
