June monthly gardening activities

Explore our monthly activities to do in the garden with your children and young people in June.

1. Remember to harden off any vegetable plants you are moving or planting outside. This is when plants are placed outside during the day and brought back indoors at night. It is best to do this for about 1-2 weeks to help make them stronger. 
2. Pinch out side-shoots on your tomatoes. This will encourage the plant’s energy towards growing fruit rather than more leaves.
3. Add stakes to tall plants such as peas, runner beans or sunflowers to help them stay upright. You can add fun cane toppers to your stakes to help avoid accidents in the garden.
4. Keep mixing or turning your compost bins. The more you do this the faster the waste decomposes.
5. Plant out celery and celeriac in early June. Make sure you have prepared the bed or pot before planting. Not got space to grow lots of celery? Try our fun saucer veg experiment to re-grow celery bought from the supermarket.
6. Add some colour to your space by adding summer hanging baskets or containers outside – if you’re looking for a longer term display, fill your baskets with herbs and evergreens.
7. Sow squash, cucumbers, pumpkin and cauliflower directly into the ground in your prepared beds or pots.
8. Continue sowing vegetables such as beetroot, radish, pak choi, lettuce, salad leaves, French beans, runner beans, peas and spring onions out into prepared beds or pots. Remember as it gets hotter it is best to sow salad crops in shadier spots to help prevent bolting (plants shooting into flower too early).
9. Sweetcorn is best planted in blocks as this helps them cross pollinate by wind, once the flowers have developed. When sowing seeds directly into the ground, plant two seeds per hole to assure success. If you have sown your sweetcorn seeds indoors earlier in the year they can now be planted out in the same block pattern by the end of June.
10. Harvest lettuce, radish and early potatoes. Design a lunch menu that includes the vegetables you've harvested. 

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