Essential Jobs for June

Category: Garden tips 1 Jun 00:00 - 30 Jun 23:59

• Shade greenhouses to prevent scorch
• Position hanging baskets and containers and water regularly
• Plant out summer bedding
• Prune spring flowering shrubs
• Hoe regularly to suppress weeds
• Look out for blossom end rot on tomatoes, flea beetle on brassica seedlings. Cover carrots to prevent rot attack and scatter plenty of slug pellets
• Plant newly purchased container grown perennials and shrubs
• Cover fruit trees and bushed to prevent bird damage

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