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June is a wonderful month on allotments with the chances of frost virtually nil. Many soft fruits will be ready now and your first new potatoes will be ready to harvest.
Sowing outdoors/under cloche
Beans (french/runner) Beetroot Carrots
Chinese Cabbage Lettuce Pak Choy
Peas Pumpkin Radish Rocket
Spinach Spring Onions Squash Swede
Sweetcorn Swiss Chard
Planting out
Aubergines Beans (french/runner) Brassicas Chillies
Courgette Cucumbers Leeks Marrow
Melons Potatoes (late) Squash Sweet peppers
Sweet corn Tomatoes
Harvesting
Asparagus Calabrese Carrots Garlic (overwintered)
Lettuce Onions (overwintered) Peas Potatoes (first/second earlies)
Radish Rocket Spinach Spring Onions
Sweet potatoes
Jobs
Continue weeding and hoeing
Water plants and conserve moisture by applying mulches.
Earth-up main crop potatoes
Sow winter brassicas and turnips, carrots summer beetroot for the autumn
Stake tomato cordons
Fill gaps in beds with fast growing vegetables like salad greens and radishes
Spray runner bean flowers with water to help "set" them so they quickly produce pods
Continue to sow salad vegetables every two or so weeks
Peg down strawberry runners to produce new plants
Stop cropping asparagus