June Garden Reset: GYO Chillies, Protect Your Soil, and Wonderful Wasps

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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It’s June and our gardens are now in full swing. It’s a wonderful time of year – that perfect sweet spot where we can start to take in the fruits of our spring labour, while still looking ahead to the wonders yet to come. And so this week, we’ll be focusing on what you can keep on doing to ensure your garden flourishes all summer long. We’ll be chatting with Alessandro Vitale about the plant that inspired him to grow – chillies, hearing from entomologist Seirian Sumner on the surprising benefits of wasps in June, and checking in with Caroline Williamson at RHS Garden Bridgewater on how we can keep our soil happy and healthy this summer. Links: Rebel Gardening: A Beginner’s Handbook to Organic Gardening Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps How to care for your soil

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
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0:26.0	plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.
0:32.1	It's a lovely June day,
0:33.9	and I'm walking in my garden,
0:35.3	looking at all the plants.
0:37.0	Most of my garden is very shady. It's
0:38.8	consists of trees and shrubs. And the Philadelphia is just coming into flower now of its lovely
0:43.7	white fragrant flowers. Walking back up the garden I can see the patio in the distance.
0:49.0	The patio is covered in a blue smattering of syonophis petals. The syonophis is finally coming
0:54.0	to an end. The roses have just started.
0:57.0	I'm looking at my Perseus rose. It's got, well, dark spots at the base of each petal.
1:02.0	It's a very lovely rose. And my winter bedding is still flowering away. I've got pansies and I've got Bellis and the new stuff is flowering.
1:11.6	I've got some mimulus, a whizley vanilla that really does fill the whole place with a vanilla scent
1:16.6	and lots of labylias and felicitas and petunias are all growing away.
1:21.6	And the patio, like every other space is covered with plants, lots of cabbages and Brussels sprouts and cauliflower
1:28.3	all waiting to be planted out, leaks as well.
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