If you haven’t taken the time to sow any fruit or veg in your garden, don’t worry, as it’s not too late to start.
While you might think June is too late to sow any fruit or vegetables, with most seeds having to be sowed in spring, one garderner who specialises in growing her own food has shared a list of five vegetables that you can still add to your garden in June.
Taking to TikTok where she has amassed over 537,800 followers with her simple tips and tricks on how you can grow your own fruit and vegetables at home, Louise shared a list of the five vegetables she was still adding to her garden this month.
“Five vegetables that I’m sowing right now in June,” she said in her video before she jumped into her list.
Raab
“Let’s start with this sprouting broccoli called Raab,” she said before showing off her previous harvest. “Here’s the first sowing I did a month ago. You can start to harvest this within 60 days.”
She went on to explain that with crops like this that grows quickly, you’ll need to successon sow them every two weeks in order to keep your brocolli lasting as long as possible.
“The problem with sowing seeds in summer is that there’s always a risk that soil will dry out,” she warned. “And if this happens, you’ll get a very low germination rate.”
To combat this, Louise shared that she’d added a new layer of compost at the top of her garden box to try to help retain some moisture in the soil.
“So in this bed, I’ve added a new layer of compost to the top to try to help retain some moisture,” she said.
“Then I thinned out some of the last sowing, and I’ll be using this as salad.”
Herbs
“June is a great time to sow any herbs,” Louise said. “I cook with herbs in almost any meal so I need a pretty constant supply.”
She went on to explain that she prefers to sow her herbs every few weeks in rectangular garden containers, saying she finds that it helps keep the slugs away.
“But also when it’s finished growing and I’ve harvested it for cooking, I can simply take the whole thing to the compost bin, tip it out, replace it with new soil, and sow some new seeds,” Louise explained.
Carrots
“Next up, I’m sowing some more carrots,” Louise stated.
She went on to say that before sowing the carrots, she would be harvesting her potatoes as she claimed using the soil that the potatoes had been growing in provided the ideal soil for her carrots to grow in.
“This is because carrots need to go into a really fine soil with no lumps or rocks,” she explained. “And as you’re sifting through your own harvesting of potatoes, you’re naturally gonna break up any lumps and removing any rocks that you find anyway.”
In order to help keep the soil moistured, she put two planks on top where she’d sowed the seeds. You can remove these as your carrots have started to grow.
French beans
Next up, Louise said: “So now, I’ve got to sow some more dwarf French beans.”
Explaining that her first round of sowing hadn’t been successful as only three of her plants had germinated despite the seeds being in date, she went on to do a second round of sowing.
“So I’ve got to sow some more because three just isn’t gonna cut it for me,” Louise said.
Pak Choi
“And finally, I’m gonna sow some pak choi,” Louise revealed before explaining her sowing technique.
“Now I know you know the drill already, but make some holes [in your soil],” she said as she was seen poking holes into the soil in small containers.
“Put two seeds per hole, give it a water, cover it with some clingfilm until germination, then put it in your greenhouse in a sunny window until you see some shoots,” she explained.