June /July Garden Activities:
- Finish planting your vegetable garden
- Watch for insect and disease problems with all crops
- Early lettuce might be ready for harvest
- Towards the end of June you may need to side dress sweet corn with extra nitrogen
- Finish mulching your vegetable and flower gardens to conserve on moisture and prevent weed growth
- Plan to participate in garden tours in the area
- Sit back and enjoy your flower garden
Mow high for season. Long grass blades shade the ground and reduce soil water loss.
After strawberry harvest is complete, be sure to renovate the bed by mowing all the tops off,
fertilizing and rototilling to narrow the rows.
Deadhead perennials as they finish blooming.
Harvest raspberries when fully colored and easily separated from stem. After harvest is complete, prune out the fruiting canes to make room for new growth.
Remove faded blossoms from annual and perennial flowers to prevent seed formation.
Cage or stake tomatoes if you have not done so.
Mulch garden beds to preserve soil moisture. Wood chips, cocoa bean or other mulches is excellent for perennial beds. Vegetable gardens may be mulched with herbicide-free grass clippings, compost, straw or other easily-degradeable mulch materials
- Check yourself and your pets for tick after being outside in the garden or walking in the woods