Tasks and Tips This Month: June (=) Quick fire tips to ensure the welfare and optimisation of your garden for the month of June. - Be Concious of water usage, particularly in drought-likely areas
- Greenhouses get very hot in direct sunlight so be aware of the plants growing in them and consider covering to produce shade and keep them cool
- Cut lawns regularly
- Harvest salads and early potatoes
- Keep an eye on weed hotspots and hoe if necessary
- Stake tall and weak plants which are likely to flop in hot weather
- Make sure birdbaths and feeders are toppped up and monitored
- Remove any blanket weed covering ponds to allow sunlight to penetrate by twirling a rough stick
- Pinch out new fruit shoots
- Keep an eye out for early aphid attacks
- Keep a vigilant eye out for slugs
Tasks and Tips Next Month: July (>>) Quick fire tips to ensure the welfare and optimisation of your garden for the month of July. - Pick courgettes before they grow into marrows
- Keep ponds, birdbaths and other water sources topped up and clean
- While weather is nice, add a lick of paint or treatment to benches, sheds and other woodwork
- Water fruit plants regularly
- Many vegetables will be ready to harvest this month
Tasks and Tips Last Month: May (<<) Quick fire tips to ensure the welfare and optimisation of your garden for the month of May. - Protect plants and veg from slugs and snails with slug traps, grit or pellets. For a more organic approach, try encouraging birds, hedgehogs and frogs into the garden who prey on slugs and snails
- Dig up potatoes
- Trim back hedges and shrubs to encourage a bushy appearance and thicken up (watch out for nesting birds)
- Mow lawns regularly unless in the process of applying lawn weed killer
- Don't be over keen with putting out bedding plants just yet - a cold snap could be just around the corner!
- Optimum time of year to create ponds
- Existing ponds may start to cloud up with algae due to the increase in tempreture, however, once the pond plants start to grow this will start to subside
- Spray roses to kill aphids, greenfly and protect from blackspot
- Make a runner bean wigwam
- Begin to sow herb seeds
- Protect vulnerable plants from late frosts
If you have any suggestions of your own or feel we haven't covered a particular topic, please feel free to email us at sales@riversidegardencentre.co.uk and we will endevour to include this information where possible. |
