What I’m sowing and growing in June

May has been a much more relaxed month than April,  sowing just a few seeds and a leisurely planting schedule.  Almost all of the summer planting is complete now, with about half of the autumn/winter brassica’s in too.  The focus now switches to preparing for an abundant winter and spring, which means carefully timed sowings in June, July and especially August, with a just a few sowings in September/October and fewer still over winter.  Watch the associated videos as they are released.

For me the most important thing is that the allotments have become a very relaxed place as we potter around, watering, planting and harvesting, with no real work to do until late September/October when we transition everything over for winter veg.

In this video I show you the progress of my April and May sowings which are doing very well.  Most of the peppers are doing well, the early tomatoes seem to have been worth the effort and the main tomato sowing destined for the polytunnel is all planted.  The early courgettes and cucumbers are planted or potted too.  The early brassicas are in the ground and succession sowings are growing strong.

In the video I also spend a few minutes on the computer to show you the databases that I’m using to capture all of my knowledge about the 250+ varieties of fruit and veg that I grow and also the details of what I’m sowing.

Before we get to the video though you might like to check out my latest tour, which shows everything that’s growing.

May allotment tour: as we finish preparing for summer

You might also like to see some of my May harvest highlights you can check out the following video:

Harvest highlights at the end of spring

So finally we get to the video for June’s sowing and growing:

What I’m Sowing and Growing In June

This video shows several databases that I’m using to manage my allotment this year.If you would like to find out more about these databases please take a look at the following video, and it’s associated description:

If you want to get a copy of the tools that I demonstrate in this video please click on this link and create an account.  Once you have an account then click on this link to browse all of my databases, if you want, you can take a copy of the databases to use for yourself.

If you want to download any of the following views to a spreadsheet you can clock ‘download CSV’ to get your own private copy, or use the web based database I’m using by watching the video above.

When looking at these databases please bear in mind that they are live views onto rapidly evolving data. The content and design is being constantly improved. If you want to look at snapshots and/or take your own copies, please look at the video above and it’s associated description.

Here’s a complete read-only view of the sowing log and varieities database with all of my data:

Here’s a view of everything I sowed in May:

Here’s what I’m planning to sow in June:

For completeness here’s a view of my sowing database with all the details!

Watch out for the next video showing what I’m sowing in July!