The garden in June - about harvesting, flowers and not eating everything

The garden in June

June and July are the most colourful months in my garden!
In my garden June is the month to harvest berries, picking, eating and drying herbs and vegetables but also the month to enjoy flowers and chaos.

Maybe this is the difference between the dedicated allotment gardener, focused on harvesting and preserving as much as possible, and the somewhat lazy foodie interested in rare and tasty fruits, herbs and vegetables.

I make sure some of my plants flower because it’s interesting to discover the entire lifecycle.

First of all nature rewards you with a period of explosive greens and growth followed by flowers.
This is also important to support all kinds of insects, in trouble because of lawn fundamentalists and boring landscapers.

You will discover very small and fast wasps, bees, all kinds of colourful beetles and the natural “drones”  : bumblebees.
Unfortunately you will also face attacks by slugs, aphids and plants that start to fight for space… So you might need to help!

Blossoms are not only decorative but can be very useful in the kitchen.
Good examples are fennel blossoms.
This is expensive in shops but the wild fennel grows very well in most gardens and the stems and fronds are also tasty.

After flowering you can harvest the seeds and the plants will seed themselves.
You will not only have more food next year,  organic seeds, plants that might over grow the weeds but also a lot of plants to give to friends! :-)

Picture time!

[caption id=“attachment_501” align=“alignnone” width=“711”]Figs
(Ficus
carica){.wp-image-501 .size-full width=“711” height=“960”} Figs (Ficus carica)[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_499” align=“alignnone” width=“754”]Lemon
Thyme - Thymus citriodorus ‘Doone
Valley’{.wp-image-499 .size-full width=“754” height=“960”} Lemon Thyme (Thymus citriodorus ‘Doone Valley’)[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_497” align=“alignnone” width=“776”]Sea Kale
(Crambe
maritima){.wp-image-497 .size-full width=“776” height=“960”} Sea Kale (Crambe maritima)[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_495” align=“alignnone” width=“960”]Prunes
(Prunus
domestica){.wp-image-495 .size-full width=“960” height=“720”} Prunes (Prunus domestica)[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_493” align=“alignnone” width=“960”]Lovage
(Levisticum
officinale){.wp-image-493 .size-full width=“960” height=“720”} Lovage (Levisticum officinale) - smaak naar selder[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_491” align=“alignnone” width=“960”]Houttuynia
cordata{.wp-image-491 .size-full width=“960” height=“642”} Houttuynia cordata[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_489” align=“alignnone” width=“960”]Lemon
balm (Melissa
officinalis){.wp-image-489 .size-full width=“960” height=“720”} Lemon balm (Melissa officinalis)[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_487” align=“alignnone” width=“960”]Wild
Fennel (Foeniculum
vulgare){.wp-image-487 .size-full width=“960” height=“720”} Wild Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_485” align=“alignnone” width=“960”]Tasmanian Mountain Pepper - (Tasmannia
lanceolata){.wp-image-485 .size-full width=“960” height=“720”} Tasmanian Mountain Pepper - (Tasmannia lanceolata)[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_481” align=“alignnone” width=“960”]Lavandin
(Lavandula x
intermedia){.wp-image-481 .size-full width=“960” height=“671”} Lavandin (Lavandula x intermedia)[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_505” align=“alignnone” width=“720”]The
garden{.wp-image-505 .size-full width=“720” height=“960”} The garden[/caption]

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