Hello, what to sow in June. I'm Liz Zorab and this is Byther Farm.
What seeds can I sow in June? Well, there are masses of seeds to plant in June so
I'm going to do a quick run-through with some of them and you can also sow most
the seeds I talked about for May. And if you haven't seen that video I'll leave a
link on screen and in the video description.
As always I'll start by
reminding you that you'll need to adjust your sowing times according to where you live.
For most areas in the UK June is a great month for sowing all the tender
plants that you want to. And in other parts of the world -
it's just warming up in the northern states of America and in the most southern
states in America it's probably now beginning to get too hots grow a lot of
these and you'll need to wait until later in the year, and in Australia as
the weather cools down and you're heading into autumn and winter and now
would be the time you'll be sowing the more leafy vegetables that won't grow in
the summer heat.
We garden in Southeast Wales in the UK and that works out
equivalent to the US hardiness zone 8b, but that's only an approximate
guide to the lowest temperatures that we'll get in the in the winter, it doesn't
really describe what the micro climates are like here. We have a really nice, mild
microclimate here and we're very fortunate that a lot of our plants
flower very early and they continue growing until quite late in the season.
Let's start with beans are you can sow runner beans and French beans direct
into the ground so I'm going to be sowing ador French bean this one's
called purple teepee I've also shown a yellow bean it's called Sonesta and I'm
also growing some climbing French beans called Necker gold and to keep a
succession of beans we have to pick throughout the summer towards the end of
the month I'm going to be sown these little ones and these are eun-jung beans
this is also a dwarf being so I will have several sowings to give
me more picking and more choices throughout summer all the seeds that I'm
talking about today can be direct sown into the ground and the next one eats
beetroot I've got two different types I'm going to be saying today yogya which
has a pink and white candy strike when you cut into it now Romano
which is a dark red one but I also grow bolt Hardy and Sullinger
and towards the end of the month I'll be saying some more of those if you haven't
already sown leaf beets you can put those in now but you can also sow them
for secession or planting I grow a lot early feet because I like to use them as
salad and I also use them in veggie pizzas you can sow Calabrese seeds now
Calabrese is it'sa broccoli it's the one that we buy in the supermarkets with the
big heads of big florets as opposed to broccoli which has the long thin smaller
florets and you get multiples of them on each plant so Calabrese is a really nice
fairly quick growing Brassica I mean you get this in now we'll be harvesting it
by the end of summer and early autumn I'm going to make two sewing's
of Calabrese one now and one in about three weeks time just to stagger the
harvesting because I don't want masses of kind of reefs to come all at once I
want to be able to harvest it over a longer period
carrots can also be sown I'm going to put in some yellow and some purple
carrots this week and then in about three weeks time I also a couple more
rows or something like a Shanta new red core so that I can keep on harvesting
the carrots right throughout the year now is good time to sow Chinese cabbages
and kohlrabi I'll be doing a couple more sayings of kohlrabi I did some earlier
in the year quite a few of them have been nibbled by slugs and I do want to
have some so I will be sowing some more and now is good time for cucumbers
courgettes and Mauro's I grow variety called space master a tea I really like
it because
being joined by some birds and they're being very loud so Hofer it grew so I
grow this variety it grates to about three feet tall it's so it's a compact
plants but the cucumbers are great about six to eight inches long which is
absolutely adequate of just the two of us in our kitchen the courgettes I'm
growing this year are called gold rush Neera de Milano and Greenbush courgettes
cucumbers marries and squashes are all start by sending out this one rounded
leaf which is the seed leaf and then they start sending out their true leaves
and if you want to know which direction the plant is likely to eventually grow
in whichever way the first true leaf comes out they seem to grow in the
opposite direction so we'll get one leaf here and then the next one will come
this way and that's the direction the plant generally will grow in please
don't hold me to that but that seems to have been our experience here don't
forget to continue sewing lettuces I'm going to be sewing
Olalla or so I've got some little gems that I've just sewn and also some mixed
leaves including three different color romaine lettuces peas can be sown direct
into the ground I had this huge envelope whole seeds they there's very few left
but I will be sowing those for an early harvest i sowed some peas undercover in
the polytunnel in the middle of March they are now producing masses and masses
of mulch - I can't pick them fast enough so my lesson is I need to stop saying
quite so many and just so fewer piece eats at a time more often radishes are a
really quick and simple crop to grow seed to harvest about three to four
weeks and I have a whole variety of see two different colors so there's the
there's the one that we all recognize as I call a Peter Rabbit radish though
there's one that's slightly different it's got slightly less white on the end
there's a red one and that's like a globe shape I'm like place there's a
little white one this one it has a white outside it's got little pink Center I'm
really interested to see what that will be like so we'll come back at the end of
the month have a look at those when I actually harvest them and then I found
this one I called viola it's actually a purpley
color now I won't be sewing very many of these at any one time because I'm going
to be growing such a wide variety of them mid-may to mid-june is the perfect
time to plant Swedes I think elsewhere they're called
rutabaga I didn't have much success with them last year I think I planted them
too late and didn't water them enough so this year I'm going to be trying a
variety called Ville Homs burger fingers crossed that I have more luck with my
sweets this year you can also sow purple sprouting broccoli now this is to
harvest next spring and others particularly during the hungry gaps or a
really valuable ones or so I've got some in the ground I sowed earlier in the
year to give me a harvest before Christmas hopefully so in some now means
that I should be able to harvest in February March and even going on into
April you can sow sweet corn direct into the ground they come up looking almost
like a little blade of grass and then it doesn't take very long before they're
romping away both summer and using spinach can be sown I'm going to go a
variety called MIDI Nia I don't grow it for the mature leaves I grow it for the
baby leaves so I so little and often so I harvest it by cutting off the young
leaves and I can do that three or four times and that gives enough time for the
next sowing of seeds to get to the point where it's ready to harvest and you can
also say turnips I've tried this variety but it's an f1 so I can't collect the
seeds from it it's very nice I like the taste but I'm now going to be sewing
this one which is called gold Donna I'm not sure how different
the different varieties taste so I'm doing a bit of an experiment this year
with growing some different varieties so I can actually do a comparison in this
very hot and dry weather that we're having at the moment I'm creating the
drill to summer seeds then I am watering the drill before I sow the seeds so
there's some moisture below them and then giving it a light water once I've
covered them over I don't want all of those seeds to start germinating and
then dry out and not get any further because of lack of water so to start off
with I am trying to keep the seed beds moist
once they've germinated I give them one more water and then I'm just letting
them get on with it and one of the reasons for doing that is
it will make those little plants put down a really good root system as its
searching for water at a lower level and that will give you a stronger healthier
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