Greenhouse and House Plants
- Make sure to water and feed all greenhouse plants well during the coming weeks to maintain vigorous growth during the longest days of the summer.
- Ventilate well during damp weather.
- Watch for pest build-up.
- Continue training and taking side-shoots off tomato plants and twist tomato, melon and cucumber plants up strings.
- Ease off watering tomato plants as they set their first truss of fruit.
Fruit, Vegetables and Herbs
- Water vegetable seedlings if they need it.
- Thin out and transplant vegetables that have reached suitable size, and control weeds early.
- Plant out savoy cabbage and other winter varieties.
- If there is warm wet wether, it is potato blight weather and potatoes should be sprayed.
Lawn
- The weather can be changeable in early summer and from now, it will be easier to keep lawns mowed but regular mowing should be kept up.
- The lawn will look neater and be easier to mow.
- Apply some lawn fertilizer if the grass looks yellowish and pale.
Flowers
- There is still plenty of time to plant up pots and containers and bedding in beds and borders.
- Be sure to control weeds among bedding plants after rain …? weeds will take away from the planting if they are allowed to make growth.
- Water regularly and feed container plants.
- Stake perennial flowers that need it, if you have time.
Trees, Shrubs and Roses
- Check tree lupins, birch, Japanese maples and honeysuckle for aphids, which can cause severe die-back of these plants.
- Roses are beginning to flower – all the early kinds of climbers and ramblers will be already in bloom and the bush roses in beds start a little later.
- Continue to spray roses against blackspot disease if the foliage is wet for spells longer than 12 hours.
- Continue to tie in the new shoots of climbing roses so that they will be in the correct position for training later.
