June gardening is always marked by berries.
The June-bearing strawberries, oso berries, and currants are ripe and ready to be picked.
With the tulips, peonies, and irises completing their bloom cycle, we are fully in summer.
The pruning should extend to your tomatoes, now established in the ground.
Youll want to prune for suckers, depending on what kind of trellis system you have set up.
Spray with Lysol or other disinfectant in between plants, so you are not spreading fungus or virus yourself.
With the fruit still on the tree, you must decide on quantity or quality.
Thinning the fruit on each branch will allow the tree to create larger, tastier fruit.
Now that your asparagus has been harvested, apply a nitrogen-heavy fertilizer for next year.
Your lawn should get a low-nitrogen based fertilizer in June.
Your roses should get a phosphorus based fertilizer treatment after their first bloom, about now.
All your trees and shrubs should get a summer fertilizer before July 4th.
For instance, blueberries and azaleas need a more acidic fertilizer.
Tomato hornworms, aphids, bagworms, beetles, borers, and all the slugs.
If you dont have nasturtiums nearby, plant them now.
The aphids will be more attracted to the nasturtium and will choose it instead.
You just leave the aphid infested nasturtiums in place.
If you see powdery mildew on your plants, you might treat it with a diluted vinegar spray.
Fungicides can go a long way to helping prevent problems like black spot on roses.
Planting
The summer vegetables should all be in the ground by the end of June.
Continue succession-seeding radishes, lettuce, carrots, scallions, and beets.
Be sure you are thinning seedlings once a week.
Planting them in waves ensures multiple successions of flowers later in the season.
Remember when planting these flowers to check seed labels for heights, so you could vary them.
Now that your spring flowers are wilting, deadhead them appropriately.
Moreover, its the reason you planted the garden: to enjoy it.
