June 2024
This diary is a summary of our garden activities. The links are to blog posts that often give more detail.
01 - 09 June
Picked strawberries
Picked sweet peas and sweet Williams
Lifted garlic – disappointing small bulbs
Planted dwarf French beans
Sowed more peas
Sowed more annual flowers
Saw all four cygnets, a cormorant and a heron
Jumpers in June!
10 - 16 June
Staked the first lot of peas
Resowed gaps in carrot beds and sowed another bed
Planted more cabbages and cauliflowers
Martyn prepared another bed for brassicas
Harvested more strawberries, some gooseberries and rhubarb.
Cygnets doing well at Nostell and young coots have hatched
17 - 23 June
Picked first ca;abrese and cabbages.
Lifted first root of early potatoes
Picked first tayberries
Sowed mangetout peas
Planted final batch of brassicas
Visited Kedleston Hall
24 - 30 June
Uncovered and staked second lot of peas
Sowed more beetroot and spring onions
Lifted first root of second variety of early potatoes
All four cygnets growing