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|  | | | | |  | | | | | | | June is an amazing month for your vegetable garden. You will be kept busy hoeing, planting, weeding and of course harvesting your early crops such as broad beans, peas, lettuce, radish and early potatoes. There are still a variety of crops for you to plant, such as French beans and pak choi. Sow extra rows of carrots and beetroot for successional cropping. Download our useful vegetable planting diary to see what to grow each month. | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | 
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...pig breeds
for smallholders
 | British Lop - docile and easily managed, an excellent mother. Provides a high quality product |
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 | Middle White - good mother, quiet nature, early maturing, smaller size |  | Tamworth - excellent mother, hardy, great in cold climates, stunning colour |  | Large Black - very docile, wonderful temperament, hardy and prolific |  | Berkshire - docile, smaller breed, economical and early maturing | | For more information, see the list of pig breeds on our website |
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June is another busy month, but the long daylight hours gives you plenty of extra time in the evening to get all your jobs done. Here are some top tips from our 'Things to Do' pages - available on our website.
- Sheep - consider using moveable electric fencing to manage the ewes' grass intake and ensure they always have a fresh bite ahead of them
- Chickens - try to rest part of their run for a few weeks on a rotation basis - this will help break the parasite lifecycle
- Pigs - your pigs will enjoy a daily grooming session with a stiff brush - it will keep their skin in good condition
- Vegetable garden - use the extra daylight hours to weed regularly, and make sure you catch weeds before they have time to set seed or you'll have a summer of weeds despite your best efforts
- Horses - a source of fresh, clean water is essential at all times; in hot weather a 16hh can drink between 20-40 litres a day, depending on its level of activity
Keep up with all your smallholding tasks with our comprehensive guides tosheep, chickens, pigs, the vegetable garden and equines. Just click on an image below. | | | | | | |  | | | | | |  | | | | | 
Farm Diary
An abundance of grass & tackling internal parasites Article of the Month
Homemade plant fertilisers Moredun Health Bulletin
Malignant Catarrhal Fever (MCF) NADIS Health Alert
Nematodirus forecast & how best to control footrot in sheep. Farming in the News
Destroy noxious weeds now Recipe of the Month
Lamb Steaks with Houmous
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Summer Salads
You should have plenty of lettuce, radish and other salad crops ready for picking for our tasty salad recipes. Broad Bean & Spanish Ham Salad | | Salad of Shaved Radish, Apple & Fennel Spicy Oriental Lamb Salad Crispy New Potato Bake Warm Chard Salad with Bacon Dressing & Roasted Chicken | | | | | | |  | | | | | | | | Feedback
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