JUNE

 

FRUIT

 

·         Pick strawberries, raspberries, red and white currants, gooseberries, and cherries.

 

·         Irrigate fruit when necessary.

 

·         Mow grass and keep weeds under control.

 

·         Continue disbudding wall trained peaches and nectarines, tie in selected shoots, thin fruit.

 

·         Thin plums in two stages, early June and late June.

 

·         Heavy set of apples, thin lightly, wait until after June drop for final thinning.

 

·         Thin pears if heavy set.

 

·         Continue to protect fruit against birds.

 

·         Put straw down for strawberries, peg down runners for new plants

 

·         Continue to tie in new shoots of raspberries.

 

·         Once new raspberry canes produced, prune out old canes on new plantings.

 

·         Train in new shoots of blackberries and hybrid berries.

 

·         Thin gooseberries, Summer prune at the end of June.

 

·         Summer prune red and white currants at the end of June.

 

·         Continue to spray apples regularly against scab and mildew, also red spider mite if present.

 

·         Spray apples against codling moth about mid- June and again 3 weeks later.

 

·         Spray apples against bitter pit in mid-June if necessary.

 

·         Inspect stone fruits for red spider mite and aphids if present.

 

·         Inspect gooseberries for caterpillars of sawfly and magpie moth and control if necessary. spray for leaf spot after cropping if necessary.

 

·         Strawberries spray for grey mould and mildew, control slugs if necessary.

 

·         Spray raspberries and loganberries at dusk against rasps beetle, at first pink fruit on raspberries or 80% petal fall on loganberries and again 14 days later.

 

·         Spray cane fruits against spur blight and cane spot, spray against grey mould as first flowers open.