Gardening Tips for June in Bolton-le-Sands
June is peak growing season in Bolton-le-Sands. Focus on hardening off and planting out tender crops, setting up supports for tall perennials, and establishing a regular watering and deadheading routine to keep your summer borders and hanging baskets thriving. Keep your garden looking and producing its best this month with these key tasks:
🌸 Flowers & Borders
- Deadhead and Prune: Regularly remove faded flowers on repeat-flowering roses, sweet peas, and bedding plants to promote new blooms. Trim back spring-flowering perennials like hardy geraniums for a second flush of foliage and colour.
- Support Tall Plants: Stake tall or top-heavy perennials (like delphiniums and peonies) before they get damaged by the coastal Lancashire winds.
- Hanging Baskets & Pots: Ensure outdoor containers are well-watered. Aim for early morning watering to reduce evaporation and avoid feeding slugs and snails. Apply a high-potash feed to flowering plants to boost blossoms.
🥔 Fruit & Veg
- Plant Out & Sow: Plant out tender crops like runner beans, squash, courgettes, and tomatoes. Continue “succession sowing” (planting small batches every 2 weeks) for salad leaves, beetroot, and carrots to guarantee harvests through autumn.
- Harvest: First early potatoes should be ready to harvest this month.
- Feed & Netting: Feed tomatoes fortnightly with a high-potash fertilizer. Place netting over ripening strawberries to protect them from birds.
🌿 Lawn Care
- Mow Smartly: Mow the lawn once a week, but raise the blades slightly during dry, hot spells to prevent stressing the grass.
- Feed & Edge: Apply a high-nitrogen summer lawn feed to keep it lush, and edge your borders for a clean finish.