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Welcome to GrowCook Eat Arrange our jobs of the month and this month is of course June

and I'm going to hand straight to Josie our head gardener Josie Lewis who's going to talk about

what she's been doing this morning which is sewing biannials.

Yeah as soon as I notice things going to seed around the garden like fox gloves,

then I know it's time to get ready for next year and start sewing the biennials. So things like

digitalis, we sew now, Hesperis, the Dianthus, all things like that can be sewn now.

Yeah. So they form big roots in their first year and then they'll be flowering,

well, from May onwards next year.

And wallflowers, of course, too.

Wallflowers, yeah.

Just have to think a bit ahead with biennials, but they're so worth it because they fill

that gap, don't they?

That May when

there's often not that much in the garden. They really do. This garden here in May is

wolf flowers and honesty moving to fox gloves and sweet rocket. So without biennials, we would

be stuffed. Yeah. And then rhubarb, people tend to think of rhubarb as a spring edible crop, but actually you can go on picking rhubarb until early August if you want to. We certainly pick lots of it in June. We make lots of rhubarb cordial, which is with a star anise, sometimes some strawberries if you can get them cheap enough, which gives a really lovely added

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