kitchen garden: The best gardening tips in June
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In June you can already harvest the first fruit in the kitchen garden.
In our gardening tips we give you an overview of what else you can do this month.
in the kitchen garden there is a lot to do in June.
Besides weeding, cutting and fertilizing, we can already harvest the first fruits of our work.
In our gardening tips for the kitchen garden in June, we show you what work should be done this month.
Keep tree discs clear
Especially in summer grasses and weeds compete with the tree for water and nutrients.
Dense vegetation up to the trunk can also promote the dreaded collar rot.
Therefore, keep the lawn in the orchard as short as possible.
The tree disc, i.e. the area of 50 to 100 centimetres in diameter around the trunk, should remain free of vegetation.
A mulch layer of organic material (such as grass or lawn cuttings) prevents weeds from spreading again after weeding.
It also keeps the soil evenly moist and prevents grasses from growing back into the tree disc.
Apply fresh lawn cuttings only thinly, but add more every week.
Our gardening tip: Before spreading the grass for the first time, spread one to two handfuls of horn shavings.
Water fruit trees during dry periods
Fruit trees need to be watered regularly during dry periods,
otherwise the fruit will remain small or fall off prematurely.
Apple trees, for example, need about 40 litres of water a week in dry periods.
In addition, you should protect the tree disc, i.e. the immediate root area, from evaporation with a cover of bark compost.
Special mulching discs made of coconut fibre are also available for this purpose in specialist shops.
They have the advantage that they can be easily removed for watering.
Trimming rosemary
If you don't use the shoot tips of your rosemary regularly for cooking anyway, you should prune the plants vigorously once after flowering.
If rosemary is allowed to grow freely, it will become bald from below and unsightly.
Even more severe pruning into older wood has the best chance of success in early summer.
After a rejuvenating cut in early spring, however, the shrubs often no longer sprout.
The same applies to lavender, by the way.
Peach: Thin out the fruit
In June, thin out the fruit hanging from your peach tree so that only one fruit remains per ten centimetre of shoot length.
This measure promotes fruit quality and prevents the peach tree from ageing prematurely.
Caring for rhubarb
Do not harvest rhubarb stalks after 21 June.
On the one hand, they are no longer as easily digestible and on the other hand, rhubarb needs the remaining leaves to regenerate.
After the last harvest, work around two to three litres of compost into the soil and remove the flower stems that are now forming.
Garden tip: The leaves of the last harvested stems are ideal for mulching raspberries or currants.
Harvest St. John's wort now
There are several species of St. John's wort. Only spotted St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) is used as a medicinal herb.
For wound-healing St. John's wort oil, harvest the flower clusters at the end of June on a sunny day.
They are then poured into translucent glasses, poured over with cold-pressed olive oil and left to soak in the sun for four to five weeks.
Occasionally remove the lid to allow condensation to escape.
When the oil has reached a ruby red colour, sieve off the blossom remains with a cloth and pour it into brown bottles.
Important: Protect skin areas treated with the oil from the sun! The leaf scent of lemon St.
John's wort (Hypericum hircinum) is reminiscent of lemon balm and lemon eucalyptus.
The leaves can be used to prepare a tasty relaxing tea. The large-flowered species is also an ornament for every garden.
Compost: Pumpkin as shade provider
It is best to plant one or two pumpkin plants next to your compost container and guide the shoots up the side walls.
The large pumpkin leaves shade the compost and ensure that it does not get too wet in heavy rainfall.
The plants have no problems with the nutrient-rich soil near the compost.
Tip: If you want to harvest as large pumpkins as possible, you should only allow the first two fruits of each plant and remove all others when they are young.
roast tomatoes
Tomatoes form so-called stingers in the leaf axils, which you should break out regularly.
The undesirable side shoots take up an unnecessary amount of space and are very unstable.
In addition, the higher leaf mass is at the expense of fruit quality.
Therefore, if you want to harvest a lot of fruit, it is a must to use up your tomatoes.
An even water supply is also very important for fruit formation.
Long lasting pleasure with aromatic strawberries
Ever-bearing strawberry varieties such as 'Elan' continue to blossom and berry until late autumn.
The plants need regular nutrient supplies for this tour de force.
Therefore, every 7 to 14 days, apply a teaspoon of organic berry fertilizer to the surface of the soil around each perennial.
In the case of pot or hanging basket plants, the root ball should not dry out completely.
Bush beans for late summer harvest
Unlike runner beans, which should be sown by the end of May at the latest, you can take the whole month of June with fast-growing bush beans.
Sow in rows 40 centimetres apart and place one seed every two to three centimetres in the approximately three centimetre deep grooves.
For eyrie sowing, place three to five seeds every five to eight centimetres.
Then cover with soil and moisten.
Last asparagus harvest
On St. John's Day (24 June) at the latest, you should harvest your asparagus bed for the last time - for early varieties, it even ends in the middle of the month.
After that, let the asparagus grow freely so that the plants can regenerate and produce high yields again in the next season.
A dose of horn meal supports the regeneration process.
thin out cucumbers
To ensure that cucumbers form a strong central shoot and not too many fruits, they must be thinned out regularly.
Usually only the first fruit is left on the sixth leaf of each side shoot.
All fruit and side shoots in the leaf axils closer to the stem are removed.
Important: Snake cucumbers need up to three litres of water per day in summer.
This gardening tip should definitely be followed, because cucumbers quickly shed their fruit if there is a lack of water.
seed a salad
In order to be able to enjoy fresh, harvestable lettuce at any time during the season, you should constantly add new young plants.
Please note that only heat-resistant varieties such as 'Lollo' or 'Dynamite' are suitable for sowing during the summer months.
At temperatures above 18 degrees Celsius the seeds germinate poorly, so you should sow pickled and lettuce in the evening if possible,
water them extensively and protect them from overheating with a white fleece until germination.
Practice video: Sowing a picking salad in a bowl
If you only have limited space at your disposal, you do not automatically have to do without fresh delicacies from the garden.
Shading and ventilating the greenhouse
On hot summer days you must protect your tomatoes and cucumbers from overheating in the greenhouse.
To do this, you should install a shading net under the roof and, if necessary, on the side walls.
It is also important to open the roof windows regularly to allow the heated air to escape.
Automatic ventilation flaps that open automatically with a temperature-controlled mechanism are ideal.
Summer pruning for vines
In order for your vines to form large, sweet bunches, they need summer pruning during the flowering phase.
Cut off each fruit shoot above the fourth to fifth leaf behind the last bunch of flowers and also cut off all side shoots that are not needed for next year's vine shoots to two or three leaves.
Sense of the pruning: The future clusters are better exposed and have more water available for growing, which would otherwise evaporate through the leaves.
If you put this gardening tip into practice, you should take care not to cut off too much leaf mass, because the leaves are important for the formation of sugar.
Instead, in July you should rather thin out the fruiting area so that a good balance between fruit and leaf mass is maintained.
Monilia fruit rot on cherries
The fungal pathogen of monilia fruit rot penetrates the cherries via cracks and injuries.
The fruits rot on the tree and, as a clearly visible feature, often form concentric round, cushion-like spore deposits.
The fruits often dry out on the tree and remain stuck as fruit mummies.
Important: As a preventive measure, remove all old fruits remaining in the tree.
To combat the disease, use crop protection products repeatedly from the onset of the first symptoms (e.g. Bayer Garten Obst-Filzfrei Teldor, Monizin Obst Pilz-frei).
Please always observe the waiting time (see instructions for use).
Plant leek
Now place the leeks for the autumn and winter harvest in 15-centimetre deep furrows in the soil with twelve centimetres between the plants.
The distance between the rows should not be less than 30 centimetres.
Once the plants have grown, the furrows are levelled. In order to keep the shafts white, the leeks are heaped up with soil again in August.
Making herbal broths
With herbal broths made from nettle, field horsetail, rain fern or comfrey, you can strengthen the resistance of tomatoes and other fungus-prone plants.
Pour a handful of herbs in a litre of cold water and leave to infuse for 24 hours.
Occasional stirring is recommended.
The effect is mainly based on potassium and various trace elements that are transferred from the plant material into the liquid.
Cut summer raspberries
For summer raspberries, cut off all harvested rods at ground level.
Of the young raspberries that will bear fruit the following year, only the eight to ten strongest ones should be left per running metre.
All others should be pulled out of the ground with a strong jerk.
This will prevent the rods from drifting again in the current season.
uproot watercourses
Strongly growing apple and pear trees usually develop innumerable new shoots ("water shoots") on the upper side of the branches after a strong pruning.
However, after pruning - whether in summer or traditionally in late winter - new water shoots often float from the attachment point, which then also have to be removed.
Do it like the pros and tear out the branches, which are just 30 to 40 centimetres long, against the direction of growth with a powerful jerk.
The prerequisite for the June crack is that the shoots are not yet lignified, i.e. have no firm connection to the branch.
Advantage of the method: Existing buds ("sleeping eyes") are also pulled out.
Harvesting elderberry blossoms
At the beginning of June the fresh inflorescences of the black elderberry are harvested to produce elderflower syrup or sparkling elderflower wine.
Pick the flowers early in the morning after a few warm days, because that is when they contain the most aroma.
The umbels are carefully shaken out before use and tossed in ice-cold water.
Then let them drip off on kitchen paper.
Annoying earth fleas on radishes
If many small holes appear on the ground level leaves of radishes and at the same time flea-like insects can be seen jumping away,
the diagnosis is quickly made: We are dealing here with fleas that are only three millimetres in size.
Earth fleas hibernate in the ground, are darkly coloured depending on the species or have two yellow longitudinal stripes on the wing covers.
They appear on the plants already in early spring and cause scraping damage on the upper side of the leaves, which continues quickly in a conspicuous pitting.
Keep the soil evenly moist and loosen it. Both measures somewhat reduce the infestation by the beetles.
Covering with a close-meshed fleece or net (mesh size 0.8 x 0.8 millimetres) in spring prevents the animals from migrating.
Harvesting new potatoes
Do not wait until the leaves have died before harvesting the early potatoes.
The tubers taste best if you do not let them ripen completely.
However, please note that early potatoes cannot be stored for long because of their thin skin.
Sweet peppers: To prevent flower shedding
Peppers are sensitive and there are many reasons why plants suddenly shed their flowers.
This usually happens when the plants develop too luxuriantly after higher fertiliser application.
Drought, cool nights, too high temperatures or insufficient fertilization are also considered triggers.
Optimal for pollination is 18 to 22 degrees Celsius, at over 30 degrees Celsius the pollen dies off.
On warmer days, vigorously ventilate in the cold frame or greenhouse! As in the field, fertilize sparingly every 14 days and water regularly.
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