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June 2016
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Details of what was sown/planted in June
For June 2016 weather summary
Details of our June harvest
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Bought a crossandra for the house and some verbenas for a summer tub
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Planted last of the potatoes.
Tidied Autumn Gold raspberries, half of the Glen Ample are dying?
Starting planting mixed bed
Oh dear what can the matter be?
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Tomatoes planted in plot greenhouse
More peas sown
Courgettes planted
Chrysanthemums and dahlias planted in the mixed bed
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Started planting up some garden tubs.
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A late afternoon visit to the plot to do some watering.
The broad beans smelled lovely
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Planted second batch of broad beans
Added some Romanesco cauliflowers to brassica bed
Cut down dead raspberry canes - some new shoots at the base.
Picked first strawberries and netted the rest.
Don't squish me I'm your friend
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Potted up some tomatoes, an aubergine and a cucumber
Bought extra table for plants in summerhouse,
Potted up a thunbergia in summerhouse.
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Redcurrants starting to ripen and so cage closed
Sowed spinach, swede, turnips and beetroot
More tilling
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Planted our Crown Prince Squash
Sowed more peas, carrots and annual flower seeds
Placed softer netting over strawberries
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Bought a streptocarpus for the house and a couple of bacopas for a garden tub.
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Swede, turnip. beetroot, spinach and annual flowers are germinating.
Planted out annual flowers from modules and sunflowers.
Prepared beds for planting.
Weeded parsnips and carrots.
Harvested first cabbages and sweet Williams.
Soil like mud!
Picking strawberries in the rain
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Planted out leeks, sweet corn and left over tomato plants were planted outside on the plot.
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Potted up parsley and some plants for garden tubs
Potted some peppers and aubergines.
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More peppers and aubergines potted up.
Bought more pelargoniums and planted up more tubs
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Visited Blickling Estate in Norfolk
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Picked more strawberries, dug more potatoes
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Roses are flowering despite the weather
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More tilling
Thinned out swedes
Picked more strawberries and first two raspberries
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Thunbergia in the summer house us flowering and the rest of the plants in there are doing well.