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This video covers easy vegetable seeds you can sow in early summer to keep your garden or allotment productive and full of fresh harvests.
I explain why these crops work well at this point in the growing season, how to sow them successfully, and simple care tips to help seedlings establish quickly. Choosing suitable vegetables now helps avoid gaps in production and keeps you harvesting for longer.
Suitable for raised beds, containers, polytunnels, and traditional allotment plots. Perfect for beginners and experienced gardeners wanting straightforward sowing advice and reliable results.
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what vegetables can you plant in June
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for your a lotment and garden now a lot
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of people will have started all the
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seeds off in March time but you can
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start a lot of seeds off in June to get
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crops later on in the season and get
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some delicious vegetables welcome to
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Garden Name with Ben we're going to talk
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about what vegetables can be sewn in
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June this month
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so you're wanting a lot of them are need
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to be like fast growing vegetables ones
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that will get harvested around September
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October time so the vegetables that we
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can sew this month are
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beetroot absolutely delicious beetroot i
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put mine in the air fryer for the first
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time last year and had them as chips so
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if you've not tried beetroot as chips
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try that i've got a chipping machine
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where you just pop them in chips them
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and then cook them in the air fryer
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absolutely delicious next up is carrots
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obviously carrots need to be grown in
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special soil not uh stony soil or
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they'll fork i've never had a look
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growing carrots so I can't give tips on
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carrots unfortunately but have a go at
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growing some carrots next up are French
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beans now you can get sewing more French
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beans if you've got some in already
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start some off now for a successional
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growing and you'll be harvesting them
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later on in the year after the ones that
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are ready pretty much soonish so yeah
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get some French beans in next up is
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runner beans now a lot of people have
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started them beginning of May time and
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they're probably up to the tops of the
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canes near enough already but if you
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wanting a later harvest and keep that
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harvest growing get some more in now and
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get some growing use a bed that you've
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had for like your garlic or your winter
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onions use that space wisely and get
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some more runner beans in next up are
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corettes now only plant a few plants
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because they do produce a lot and you'll
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end up giving loads away and be
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inundated with corettes once you get
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them growing they are fantastic
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vegetables to grow so if you've not
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started some corettes start them off now
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pumpkins and squash now obviously
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pumpkins needed to be planted around
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March time for to get some nice big ones
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but if you've not got some pumpkins in
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get some in now and they won't be
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massive but you might get a good crop
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from them uh a nice decent smallsized
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pumpkin for November next up is radish
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one of the fastest growing vegetables
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out there with great rewards from it and
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it's a space saver if you're wanting to
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fill space in sew some radish and you
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will be harvesting them within 6 to 10
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weeks so put some radish in fill them
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spaces up and the seeds are really cheap
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for radish as well so get some sewn and
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get some in next up is turnips now
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turnips are a winter veg they will be
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ready around winter time and again
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they'll fill a bed which you've used
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already for like your garlic or your
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winter onions so if you're harvesting
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them get some more seeds in get them
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growing and you will be harvesting them
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towards the end of the
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year next up is lettuce now lettuce
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grows fast once we get this warm weather
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they will grow fast so if you've got
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some lettuce in already sew some more
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and you can plant it where you'll be
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harvesting the lettuce from that you've
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got in at the moment or you can fill
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gaps in in between other plants like
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sweet corn and stuff like that fill the
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gaps in and get some lettuce growing
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next up is spinach who wants to be like
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Papey i certainly
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do if you want to be like Papey grow
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some spinach and get some of that
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growing and you can just keep picking it
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as and when you need to harvest some
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next up is kale another winter vegetable
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that can tolerate the winter climates so
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if you're wanting to be harvesting stuff
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throughout the winter get some kale in
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there's plenty of varieties out there
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there's green ones there's purple ones
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there's curly kale there's lots of
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varieties of kale out there get some
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sewn and you will be harvesting them
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through the winter next up is chard
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chard looks very similar to rhubarb but
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a different sort of vegetable and you
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can get some great rewards from it so if
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you're wanting some chard get some sewn
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and you can get a harvest from it this
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year next up is spring onions again
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another space filler and you will get
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great rewards from it sew them in line
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straight into the soil no need to sew
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them in pots first get them sewn
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straight into the ground water them and
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you will be harvesting spring onions
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later on in the year next up is peas
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june is the last month to be sewing your
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peas so if you're wanting another crop
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or a later crop of peas get some in the
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ground now get them growing and you will
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be harvesting them later on in the year
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and like I said June's the last month
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for sewing your peas so if you love peas
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like I do get some in and get harvesting
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them peas who takes home the peas or do
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you end up eating them all down at your
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a lotment i know I certainly do and next
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up is sweet corn if you've not got any
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sweet corn growing get some in now as
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it's getting too late and get it sewn
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and you will be harvesting that around
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middle of September to October so if
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you're wanting your sweet corn now is
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the time to be sewing it as it's coming
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to an end to sewing it to getting them
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great rewards from it and sweet corn is
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one of the best things that you can grow
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so that is everything that you can sew
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in June i hope you've enjoyed this video
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with all our a lotment videos until next
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time everyone remember keep smiling keep
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shining and keep gardening with bed
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everyone
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