Exercise your green fingers by planting a few extra crops this June to ensure you have fresh, homegrown produce to pick throughout the autumn months. With longer days bringing extra hours of warmth and daylight, the threat of frost has long passed, and you can start planting in earnest.
There are various types of chicory you can plant in June. Red chicory, sometimes known as raddichio, is often seen in mixed salad packs, and sugarloaf varieties resemble lettuces. Most varieties of chicory will thrive in a sunny spot with well-drained soil, along short rows in a vegetable patch, allotment or raised bed. However, forcing chicory cannot be grown in the summer months and is grown by depriving the plant of light during the winter to make edible white growths called chicons.