If you’re new to gardening or you’re just not sure what to do in the garden in June, then this handy list of jobs of what you can be doing in the garden right now is just what you need. So, without further ado, here are some jobs you can do in the garden in June:
- Deadhead plants once the flowers have gone over. This encourages your plants to produce more flowers rather than putting energy into making seeds. This keeps your plants flowering for much longer. Do this regularly for the best results.
- Plant out summer bedding. Now is the time to plant up yours pots and containers with summer bedding. For planting ideas, get yourself a copy of my FREE guide to flowers for containers.
- Plant up hanging baskets with summer bedding and put them straight outside.
- Feed bedding plants regularly with a high potash feed to keep them flowering. A general purpose tomato feed will do the job nicely.
- Plant out tender vegetables such as tomatoes, runner beans, cucumbers, courgettes and sweetcorn.
- Water plants during hot spells, particularly container plants and newly planted trees, shrubs and perennials.
- Sow seeds of hardy perennials outside such as Echinacea and Achillea. Learn more about sowing seeds outdoors.
- Sow winter pansies. If you like a show of colour in your winter pots and containers then winter pansies are perfect and now is the time to sow them. Learn more about sowing seeds indoors.
- Lift and divide crowded clumps of Spring bulbs. This allows you to spread your bulbs across your whole garden and it keeps the plants healthy. Overcrowded bulbs can flower less so will be much happier and healthier once divided.
- Divide spring flowering perennials such as Camassia, Lamprocapnos (Bleeding Hearts) and wallflowers. Learn more about how to divide plants.
- Prune Clematis montana. Now this has finished flowering you can give it a good prune. Learn more about how to do this here.
- Chelsea chop perennials at the beginning of the month. The Chelsea chop is when you cut back your perennials by half which makes them a sturdier plant and helps prevent them from toppling over. Examples of perennials you can do this with are Achillea, Sedum, Sidalcea and Helenium.
- Prune spring flowering shrubs straight after flowering, such as Weigela, Kolkwitzia, Camellia, Ceanothus and Viburnum. Learn more about how to prune shrubs.
- Cut back foliage on spring bulbs as soon as it dies off.
- Remove old leaves and flower stems from hellebores. This tidies the plant up and stops it from seeding too much. Hellebores seed themselves readily, so you will probably find lots of seedling coming up in your garden. You could also keep some of the seed and try sowing them yourself. Take note that the seeds will not come true from the parent plant, so the colour flowers you get from the seeds will be a surprise!
- Trim box hedging to keep it looking neat.
- Pick off rose leaves with signs of blackspot. Blackspot is a fungus that spreads through rain splash, so removing it straight away should prevent it from spreading. You can also spray your roses in Spring with a fungicide or make up your own organic spray with a 60:40 mix of water and milk as a preventative measure against blackspot.
- Remove rose leaves with leaf rolling sawfly. This is easy to spot as the leaves curl up and roll inwards. If you remove them promptly you’ll be able to control the problem.
Happy June Gardening!