It is tempting to think that you don’t need to keep sowing crops in July but, unless you do, to keep the vegetables coming you need to keep sowing. Sow some more carrot seed at the beginning of the month to use young in salads and with lighter summer food. Along with salad leaves, summer radishes and summer turnips these need to be sown every two weeks.Tips for growing with the Moon in June
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Continue to thin carrots, parsnips, beetroot, spinach beet and spring onions; this helps to get air and water around the remaining seedlings. Remember to thin carrots on a windy day and replace the fleece once they have been thinned.
A healthy garden will have both pests and predators; unfortunately the pests will appear before predators, so keep them at bay by simply rubbing them off. Nip or snip off any plant parts covered in black fly and remove completely from the garden.
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