«June gives heat and thirst to the farmer who harvests"

Month dedicated to the wheat and barley harvest. The heat has arrived, the climate is dry, being in the fields is tiring, but the water would harm the development of the grapes, especially the white ones. For some crops irrigation is essential.

Orchard and vineyard. Green pruning, weeding and preventive-curative treatments against rot, aphids, cochineal, powdery mildew, downy mildew, etc. continue, based on climatic conditions. A preventive treatment is carried out against the second generation of the moth on the olives.

Vegetable garden. The sowing of lettuces, rocket, radishes, radishes, courgettes, beans and green beans continues. Late and winter cabbages, leeks, escarole and celery are sown in the seedbed. Basil, chard or cut chard, red beets and parsley are sown. Late tomatoes are planted and, at the end of the month, early fennel. The medicinal plants are collected and dried: chamomile, artemisia, lavender, pyrethrum, fennel... Treatments are carried out against rot, aphids and various insects. The more delicate vegetables are shaded.

Farms. Chicken coops and rabbit hutches are disinfested. If the conditions are right, the animals are grazed outdoors in shaded places. The garden. The more delicate plants take shelter in semi-shaded areas. Mulching of flowering shrubs and bushes and rose gardens is carried out. Layering, cuttings and offshoots of ornamental plants are carried out. Autumn flowering bulbous plants are planted: amaryllis, lilium, colchicum, scilla.