With no dig, rotation is not a rule. Soil is healthy, fertile and alive with possibilities to grow whatever plants you can find space for. Especially at this time of year when gaps start to appear after first plantings finish their harvests.

I plant whatever I need to wherever I see space, without worrying about what grew there before. You can be creative, also intersow and interplants. New seedlings benefit from the company of larger plants, as i describe in Grow Together.

Outside, directly in the ground, carrots and parsnips still have time to grow large before winter. You can intersow them between vegetables that have enough space between, and will finish cropping within four to six weeks.

Parsnips take a long time to emerge and therefore benefit from any water you give to the lettuce. That helps to keep the seeds moist while they are sending down their first roots.

Sow dwarf French beans as well.

Best sown under cover

It’s prime time for broccoli to crop either in autumn, or next spring.

Cauliflowers including romanesco are good to sow now, for cropping late September to November.

Also beetroot multisown, chard, salad onion, cabbage for autumn, kale for late summer and until next spring in mild areas, lettuce, and chicory for radicchio.

It's often said that lettuce do not germinate in the summer heat of a greenhouse. I find they actually come up very fast as long as I keep them out of sunlight for the first three days, under the bench. My second lettuce sowing of the year, made on 28th May in notable heat, is now almost ready to transplant, grown in my CD60 module trays.

28th May was two days before full moon, a propitious sowing time. Now the whole period 22nd to 27th June is another great chance for sowings to benefit from strong waxing energy.

Sowing seeds in the best way, at the best time, is a skill to learn . Onions from seed are so tiny at first, but then quickly grow into the abundance you see below, providing your soil is fertile.

This 25 m² space has a mix of many plantings, and includes a double barrel of mostly strawberries. Broad or fava beans at the far end have finished, and we just transplanted beetroot, with a cover over in case of rabbits which love tiny beet leaves.

Usually I cover new plantings and then remove the covers once I see the vegetables are half-grown.

The peas front right are now cropping nicely. They actually do better when it's cooler and quite damp, as we've experienced recently. Likewise, the broccoli and lettuce in the middle bed.

In contrast the three little plants in front are cucumbers, which need heat, likewise tomatoes on the left.

Occasionally in my greenhouse, the temperature reaches 44°C. Plants survive, but tomatoes in particular don't enjoy that and some varieties develop a lot of leaf roll, the leaves curling upwards.

And then we have spells of cloudy weather when I want every bit of light, so I don't find it worthwhile to shade in any way. On balance, in temperate climates like this it's better to help plants in hot weather by watering more. Soil-wise, plenty of organic matter, through successive additions of compost helps plants to stay hydrated.

On Thursday 18th June, I'm giving a talk at Letchworth District Gardening Society in Hertfordshire.

Then on 25th June, I'm speaking in a supper event at Pythouse restaurant, supplied by their very impressive no dig kitchen garden, which you can see below.

And on Saturday 27th June, I speak at Homewood House hotel near Bath, which also has an amazing kitchen garden, details here. They are holding a party.

It's a good time of year to check this out. Catherine Balaam, who wrote it has been cooking for courses here and below is the wonderful lunch she prepared on 6th June. Many of the recipes are in the book, or variations of them according to season.