This Month in Gardening – June

For gardening in June, it is starting to heat up outside, so make sure your plants are getting enough water, particularly if it hasn’t rained in a week. Summer is not an ideal time to transplant plants due to the stress it can cause. Although I can’t say that has ever stopped me before 😂

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Planning

• Continue to think about what spring-flowering bulbs you would like to have and order now to take advantage of pre-season sales through many online retailers. Remember, spring-flowering bulbs get planted in the fall!
• Many sites are also offering discounts for summer-blooming plants as they try to clear out their inventories

Prepping

• Fertilize annuals and container plants to keep them blooming throughout the summer
• The summer months can get very hot, and thus plants will need more frequent watering than in the cooler months. If it hasn’t rained in a week, plants will need supplemental watering, particularly if they are newly planted/not established yet.
• Shrubs can be pruned when they have 2-3 inches of new growth
• Add supports for plants like tomatoes, dahlias, a gladiolas.

Planting

• Continue to plant warm season annuals outside like zinnias, marigolds, geraniums, petunias, coleus, salvia, sweet potato vine, cypress vine, among others. Some can annuals can be grown from seeds that are sown directly in the soil outside – zinnias, sunflowers, and marigolds in particular
• Dahlias, caladium, elephant ears, and gladiolus can still be planted. They may bloom later as a result, but flowers are flowers!
• Tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers can be planted outside. Seeds can be sown outside for beans, cucumber, melons, okra, summer squash, basil, caraway, chervil, and dill

What are you doing in your garden this month? Let me know in the comments!