Flaming June is a month to relish the results of all your hard work in the garden – but don't rest on your laurels for too long s it's also time to get the show going for autumn fireworks.
General tasks:
- Keep weeding and dead-heading to maintain beds, borders and container displays at their absolute best
- Give tired lawns a boost with a liquid feed to green it up and boost growth.
Ornamental garden:
- Inspect your roses for aphids and blackspot – pick off infected leaves or spray to control the disease.
- Prune spring-flowering shrubs including deutzia, philadelphus and weigela, thinning one in three of the oldest stems.
- Tidy up hellebores once they've finished flowering, removing old leaves so new young foliage is displayed.
Kitchen garden:
- Keep on top of watering especially in the greenhouse where temperatures are soaring: automatic dripper systems, available here in our garden centre at Henley on Thames, take some of the strain
- Harvest your vegetables and eat them as fresh as possible: new potatoes, broad beans, salads and strawberries are all ready to enjoy this month.
- Plant winter brassicas such as sprouts, cabbages and purple sprouting broccoli, filling your winter veg beds with ready-grown plugs from the range in our garden centre.