June Gardening Calendar
at Garden-Helper.com
Early June offers the gardener a last window of opportunity to get your summer gardening started. Adding color, controlling slugs and other pests, pruning, dividing perennials, planting vegetables and eliminating weeds are all in the gardening chore list for June.
This calendar is available as a Gardening Podcast to take with you on your iPod or other mp3 player while you are out in the garden. Finally after a long cold winter you can spend much of this month either in the garden, greenhouse, coldframe or at the very least starting seeds indoors. All Garden-Helper podcasts are available both through the iTunes music store and at Yahoo! podcasts.
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June Gardening Chores
Check here for a complete list of what to plant in June.
House Plants
Fertilize your houseplants throughout the summer months to encourage growth. Leaves may need to be washed with a damp cloth to remove dust and improve photosynthesis. June is an excellent month to take cuttings of houseplants for starting new ones. If you intend to move you rplants outdoors this is the month to do it. Provide a shady spot for your houseplants and consider giving them a larger pot this month, too.
To encourage even growth give your plants a quarter turn every week or so in order to assure that all side of the plant receive relatively equal exposure to the sunlight.
Lawn Care in June
If the weather gets hot and dry in June then when you are mowing be sure to raise the deck and allow your grass a slightly longer length. This is especially true for bluegrass and tall fescue where you want the deck to be at least three to three and one half inches high. This will help prevent burning of your lawn.
Early summer is the time to fertilize the lawn again so if you have not done so then June is a great time for this project. You may also consider re-seeding or over-seeding patches of your lawn. Just be sure to keep those areas well-watered.
Vegetables And Fruits
- Start any of the warm weather vegetables such as Corn, Beans, Peppers, Eggplant, Tomatoes, Squash and Pumpkins as soon as possible this month if yo uhad not done so last month.
- After trees naturally drop thier fruit in late June, thin remaning fruits on apple, pear and peach trees to encourage larger, better fruit.
- Vegetable seedlings may continue to be thinned this month in order to provide ample room for growth.
- Plant your Broccoli, Cabbage, Brussels sprouts and Cauliflower for next winter's harvest.
- Prune suckers from all your fruit trees
- Fertilize strawberries and water regularly to promote new growth
- Pinch herbs to keep bushy and fresh with new growth
Flowers - Planting and Transplanting
Encourage bushy production of flowers by pinching back and deadheading. For Iris and Peonies remove the flower stalks. Also trim rose blossoms that have done thier job and dead foliage from Spring bulbs which have since passed.
Check here for a complete list of what to plant in June.
Tuberous Begonias can now be safely planted outdoors.
Gladiolus corms can still be planted for successive blooms.
Trees and Shrubs
This is a good month for pinching or pruning Junipers, Cypress or Conifers.
Immediately following the end of flowering you will want to fertilize shrubs like Rhododendrons, Camellias and Azaleas.
June is a good month to pinch back annuals, Fuchsias, Geraniums and any other plants that might be getting too leggy.