In June you can start to enjoy food that fills you up! New potatoes, known as ‘early’ varieties, will usually be ready when the plants are flowering.

Plus you’ll have plenty of French beans, broad beans, peas and salad leaves to munch and crunch. Home-grown pudding is also taken care of in June… it’s the month of strawberries!

You can sow these seeds straight into the ground now it’s warm:

• Lettuce and salads for crop after crop
• Radishes
• If you didn’t sow beetroot in May, you can still sow now for an October crop
• A main crop variety of carrot, which will be ready in October.

June is also the time to plant out things that you’ve grown in a greenhouse or polytunnel:

• Courgettes, squash and pumpkin love to grow on top of a small mound containing lots of compost or manure
• Herbs – you can leave them in pots but put them outside.

Your tomato plants will be quite tall and leafy now – there should soon be some lovely, fruity-scented yellow flowers too. These tall tomatoes, as well as cucumbers, will need supporting with a cane. Make sure the cane is secure, then gently pull the plant stem to the cane with a zip tie or some twine.

• June is the time to sow baby beetroot

• Earth up main crop potatoes - when the shoots are 20cm tall, mound up soil around the stems to prevent your spuds going green
• Support cordon tomatoes and pinch out sideshoots. Water daily and start feeding as soon as little green tomatoes start to appear
• Thin parsnip seedlings
• Thin carrot seedlings – do it at the end of the day and then get rid of the waste so you don’t attract carrot root fly.