June Garden Tour 🌿 Organic Vegetable Garden

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Join me for a June garden tour around my extensive organic vegetable garden. We’ll look inside the polytunnel (Polycrub), at the newly renovated wildlife pond, the outdoor vegetable garden, and everything else. There are also updates on the roses and the wildflower border, as well as some bad news regarding the raspberries.

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00:00 Introduction
00:21 The Forecourt Garden
1:06 Very early raspberries (a growing trick)
02:51 A serious disease in the garden
04:11 The Wildlife Pond
06:04 Polycrub Garden
08:58 Roses, Roses, Roses
10:29 Perennial Wildflower Border Update
11:48 Organic Vegetable Garden Tour
16:06 Harvesting the first potatoes
17:32 Greenhouse and Patio Garden

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it is an absolute stunner of a day and the garden’s looking really good so let me show you around my garden in June this [Music] way since I spread wood chip all over this area it really has taken on new life it just looks so much nicer a lot of containers along the sides and the two birdies beds are filled with chundula which you see here they’re not yet blooming and herbs so we planted up this herb garden in the last monthly garden video and then beyond it is the strawberry pallet planter and I have been picking strawberries off of it i can see one right here there are tons in here though you can see all the green ones uh-oh one has fallen down but as you can see it’s a really prolific planter looks great and then over here I want to show you something i think each garden has an area where there are plants kind of stashed away either because they’re not blooming at that particular moment or you just haven’t really found a place to put them yet and my area is right here along the side of the poly cub it’s not too hidden away because I want to make sure that they’re doing okay and I’m watering them and three of the featured plants that are over here are these right here at the very front so I can keep a real close eye on them i have a Logan berry plant here a boenberry which is an American type fruit it’s a hybrid and back here this is one of my last remaining Joan J raspberries i’ve got some news about that but before I tell you that bad news I’ve got some good news because these autumn fruitruing raspberries which gave fruit last year are now putting on a second flesh so it’s really early on in the season and in my recent video on raspberry trelluses I explained that with autumn fruiting raspberries they tend to fruit towards the top of the canes the very first year in autumn and then if you don’t cut them down the next year they’ll have a flush of berries more towards the lower parts of the canes and that’s what’s happened here so I trimmed off the top and all of the areas down below on these older canes they are fruing with a really early harvest and then the new canes here this greenwood here that’s going to produce some berries later on this [Music] year as for the other raspberries they’re a bit further down in the garden they didn’t have a great year last year and so over the winter I replanted both beds tidied up the area did a recent video on raspberry trelluses and by now the raspberries should all be filling in really thickly you know like the one that’s over here in the container they’re not though and in fact a lot of the canes are coming up growing leaves and dying and I’ve done a little bit of looking online and from what I can tell I think that my raspberries have a fairly common raspberry disease that you can find in Scotland and other parts of Britain called cytophera and there are quite a few different strains of cytoera apparently so this is all new to me and uh it causes catastrophic dying off and it lingers on in the soil and especially if it’s wet soil so over the winter or if you’ve got heavy clay soil like I do so I’m just going to have a watch of that area and there are still some raspberries in it i have cleared it from the center and I’ve planted some corn there instead we’ll see how that does see if it’s affected by anything in the soil and just watch this space one garden project that has been a success and isn’t giving me any stress at all is the pond and I recently relined it redid the design sewed seeds around it and it has matured into this really lovely space to enjoy for us sitting here on the bench but also wildlife and you can see lots of honeybees buzzing over here and what they’re doing is coming down and landing on the duckweed which I’m tolerating and then drinking water and they’re taking it back to the colony and you can see quite a few bees on the side of this stone as well do you see them here and they’re doing the same thing so they’re collecting water to take back to the hive to help with making honey the plants that are inside and coming up we’ve got water hawthorne which is the white flower there and they bloom fairly early and the water liies with the round leaves you can see that there are buds just coming up right now so they’re going to take over with the flower ring and under the surface there are plants that add oxygen to the water so that helps to keep the water clear and then of course these gorgeous gems and then the wild flowers that are planted around it’s just such a stunning little place this entire area so the ponds the beds the containers and also the polycrop behind me these are all spaces that are really close to the house easy to come out and enjoy easy to come out and take care of and so that’s why I’ve chosen to put all the plants here that I have done so herbs that I can harvest on the go so just come out here and harvest some cherville or harvest some rosemary and take it into the kitchen pots that I can water really easily the bench to sit on obviously and then let’s go inside the polycrop and I’ll show you what’s growing in here i sometimes envy people who have hotter climates than I do because you can grow a lot of things outdoors that is just not possible here or that you get really poor yields so things like tomatoes and oberines and peppers which is what I’m growing in here along with some more unusual things such as these cucons and you can see they are really vigorous growing up this trellis and the sweet potatoes that are over here as well they’re starting to put out their vines and these are sprawlers naturally and so to train them to grow against a trellis you really do have to put a little bit more work into it and guide them to uh wind up through the trellis and this is the best way I think to grow them undercover so these are the Japanese sweet potatoes that I’ve grown for a few years now this one here is a purple sweet potato that I got from the supermarket i’ve also tucked in lots of small plants around the sides and in the back this is a a lemon basil or lemon basil and I wasn’t sure if we would have a good summer this year last year was terrible and so I’ve put a corette in here zucchini plants and you can see that the leaves are all nibbled around the edges and I was scratching my head i’m like what what has been after my plants and I I think over here yeah an entire one is is missing well I caught the perpetrators in the act and you wouldn’t believe it but it’s wood lice so roly polies and that’s why I have some oranges here now I’m not going to be removing any more of them because you can see that the leaves are looking pretty okay now so I think balance is uh is back but if you have a problem with wood lice if you just put an empty orange half over the soil it collects them so just like that and then in my case I’ve just taken them and relocated them to the bottom of the garden it’s the same with this one let’s have a look i’ll bet there’s tons oh yes absolute tons so if I start to see problems again with leaves being nibbled I’ll be removing more of them and I should also say that wood lice are generally not a problem in the garden they are recyclers but if there’s a population explosion or if there’s a lack of dead plant material which is likely the case in my polycrop they will attack living plants gosh 4 years being at this house i’m reminded of that as well by these roses these are David Austin roses the variety is called Generous Gardener and I had them planted at our old house and they were only in the ground a couple of years when we sold that house and bought this one and it was a real dilemma do I leave them in the ground for the new owner to enjoy or do I dig them up and try to transplant them and I didn’t even know if they would survive the transplanting but holy moly look at this they look stunning and it’s a good thing that I did take them because the guy who bought our old house leveled the garden so it everything went all the raised beds everything we saw photos it was pretty shocking but I saved these and the smell over here the fragrance is incredible and I have been busy drying these roses because we have had some winds come through and I’ve got tons of rose petals and I’m going to be making some rose water next week as well these are great for making rose water and using in projects and skin care but I also bought some damisk roses this year as bare root and I planted them along the side here and over here and the first of the flowers has opened and although the flowers are still really small on these small plants oh my goodness the fragrance is just out of this world if you’re here for the vegetables don’t worry we’ll get to those next but first let’s have a look at the wildflower bank it is looking very verdant very green at the moment but there are tons of flowers coming on and look got a butterfly this is exactly why I wanted to plant something like this not only does it look good but it’s going to be supporting so many pollinators and there are bees and hoverflies in here too this area here in the middle this is the older patch so it’s a good few years old very few weeds in it it’s all perennial and then the areas on the left and over here on the right these are newly sewn so I just sewed the seeds earlier this spring and once they get established I shouldn’t have to do much there are some annuals in here they’ll selfseed the rest are perennials and like this area here in the middle it should just be very very lowmaintenance i have had quite a few people ask me about the seed mix that I’ve used and if it’s going to be available to the public i still don’t really have any information on that because it was given to me as a trial but hopefully it does become available because it really is such a lovely mix now let’s go have a look through the main vegetable patch [Music] i grow a lot of temperate vegetables here in the garden lots of onions and brassacas beans although this year I’m really trying to focus on plants that are not going to get too tall because as you can see from these broad beans they do get knocked around by the wind a bit that hasn’t stopped these guys from producing i can see some of the very first pods forming these are delicious i’m also doing a lot more poly culture i’ve always done poly culture but this year it’s a little bit of this a little bit of that just to kind of mitigate risks with pests and disease so for example in this bed I’ve got peas here on the corner just a small patch and then in the back there’s holly hawks there’s garlic through the center then we’ve got some beetroot down here this is perennial celery at the back it’s not lovage which I have over there actually this is a perennial celery type and then we’ve got some rocket so lots and lots of different things over here in this bed there’s elephant garlic under planted with chundula and borage which seated themselves actually these are onions from last year and I’ve just left them i’ve been harvesting them all winter for green onions and then I’m letting them go to seed and then we’ve got a small patch of lettuce and then one of my favorite root veggies kabi and they are starting to swell up beautifully the entire garden is this board of vegetables and herbs and flowers and perennials and I like it this way it’s much more fun and as everything comes in it’s going to look amazing so I’ve got a dia here at the end of this bed some dwarf French beans a corette this here is a parsnip from last year and I’m letting it go to seed so that I can collect the seeds for next year colundula this bed also has that thing going on so we’ve got spinach down the top and then just below it kind of benefiting from the shade we’ve got salariak which is another gorgeous root vegetable needs a long time to grow we’ve also got fennel here so this is bulb fennel as opposed to the leafy fennel and I’ve not grown it before because I didn’t think that I liked it but I tried it again recently and so I’m I’m growing it and then we’ve got zenyas so I’ve got quite a few zenyas in this bed too just for a splash of color and attract wildlife the strawberry bed has really benefited from the hot and dry weather we got this spring so April and May they were unseasonably warm and I think because of that practically every flower has set into fruit and they are getting nibbled so I’m going to have to come in here and lift some of these strawberries up but even with ones that are nibbled you can tell we are going to be getting some pretty epic harvests this year this absolutely massive bush of a brassica is perennial kale and it is prolific the leaves can be a bit leathery the more mature ones but the younger ones like this here can be quite nice and then I’ve got some rhubarb here just there are so many plants in this garden honestly this time of the year and then going into summer we just have so much coming out of the garden it’s incredible and I do try to preserve a lot of it so I freeze a lot of things i have a pressure caner which I’m learning to use but the amount of fresh food that we can get from this space is just mindblowing which brings me to this patch down here i put in a couple of rows of lavender so I’m creating a lavender hedge on either side of this bed and I just decided that I’m going to plant the center of it with potatoes just to kind of cover the space stop weeds from forming around my lavender and they are starting to bloom and that can mean only one thing many early varieties of potatoes will form flowers when they have goodiz baby potatoes ready to harvest and so this is one sign that you can use to know when it’s time for potatoes to be dug up and if you’ve never smelt a potato flour before have a smell as well because oh some of them smell just absolutely gorgeous so you could save the flower to put in a vase inside because it is very fragrant and then dig up your potatoes so I use a fork some no dig people so no dig gardeners will just pull them out but I just kind of lever them a little bit about a foot away from the plant and hopefully we’ve got some potatoes here oh yes i can see a few right now there’s a good healthy meal right there nice soft tender skins [Music] [Music] wherever you look around the house there are plants growing of course there are some spaces around the house like the greenhouse which is the propagation center of the garden so there’s lots of seedlings in there right now along with some summer crops like tomatoes in the selfwatering planters they’re in there on the deck I’ve got the veggie pods and that is where I’m growing the majority of our lettuce this year there are tons of radishes in there at the moment which I’ll be harvesting and then fermenting there’s cilantro coriander in there spinach rocket all sorts and I think also not only is it that we’ve been here for 4 years and some of the big projects are complete now so like building the polycrop and building beds and things like that but I’ve been using the food garden planning app and in winter I used it to lay out the garden space and kind of decide where I’m going to be planting everything and the reality is is that that gives a really good foundation so you feel very confident with what you’re going to be doing and growing and you know where all those little seedlings are going to go and then as you use it it kind of evolves so you make decisions on the go that you’re going to move things around but you can go back to the app and move things around there too and then it helps you to mentally picture the garden and to feel on top of things and I’ve spoken to you about it before it’s mainly free to use so if you sign up you can have all of the garden planning features for I think a certain certain number of beds and then there’s a paid version which gives you everything else but I highly highly recommend it and now that we’re at the beginning of summer we need to start thinking about winter crops and autumn crops even planting for next year so if you have a spare moment sign up for food it’s free and I’ll leave a link down in the video description and then uh give it a whirl so that is the garden in June it’s early June by the end of the month the garden’s going to be I guess exploding compared to now a lot of those plants will just zoom in size and so the next garden tour video which will be in early July we’ll have a look again if you’ve got any questions about anything that you’ve seen leave me a comment down below thank you so much for watching and I’ll see you in the next video bye for now