22 raring2go.co.uk https://www.facebook.com/groups/raring2grow Raring2grow! HOME GARDENING IDEAS FOR FAMILIES ‘Gardening is the purest of human pleasures’ Francis Bacon www.raring2go.co.uk For more great tips visit our Raring2grow! Facebook page June Planting salad ingredients such as lettuce, beetroot, spring onions & cucumber make a perfect healthy harvest for you in the summer months and is so rewarding to serve up on your plates. It’s also a perfect time to sow Sunflowers too! July Going into the warmer months, it’s really great to try and encourage wildlife into your garden. Maybe build a bug house or why not make a fairy garden (visit our website for ‘how to’ guides’!) It’s also a good time to plant your veg patch for your Winter crops, spring cabbage, turnips carrots & leeks are all great. August It’s important to remember to water your plants well during the drier months as a lack of watering and regular, ongoing maintenance could cause problems . It’s also time to harvest the fruit of your hard labours... salad crops should be ready to pick & serve now. Ideas for planting for winter; Pansies, Violas and Boxwood to name but a few are perfect to sow for the months ahead. We wish you a very happy summer of gardening fun. We’d love to hear & see how your gardens grow, so please do send in your pictures to info@raring2go.co.uk making sure you call it ‘Raring2grow!’ We hope we inspired you in our spring edition to have a go at ‘growing your own’. It’s great fun and we hope that if you did get stuck in, it ignited a joy of gardening with the family. Hopefully late frost we had didn’t dampen your enthusiasm. Here are a few suggestions on what to plant for the coming months ahead. Raring2go! GARDENING
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