Northern California June Garden To-Do List

In the ornamental garden

Deadhead , mulch , and fertilize roses . Along with regular deadheading , ensure to pick your rosebush often — both for filling summer bouquets and to ensure continuous bloom production . supervise the weather , and make certain the plants are get sufficient piss to keep them tidy and strong . If you have n’t done so already , apply a layer of mulch to conserve water . Now that the industrial plant have produced their first flush of bloom and are in their prime fertile period , feed them again with a plant food specifically articulate to raise bloom production .

Set your lawn mower blade higher . If you have a lawn , it ’s time to gear up your lawn - lawn mower blades to high . This thin out turf stress and helps preserve H2O during the summertime . urine and haymow in the dawning to foreclose fungal problems such as dark-brown spot .

retain to pick flush from your cutting garden . In your cutting garden , check for disease or insect job , and treat accordingly . Most significantly , harvest your flowers often ! The more you pick , the more your efflorescence will keep on blooming . If space allows , you could still insert in a few starts for all your favourite summer bloomers this month to keep your cutting garden fresh and floriferous all the style through September .

In the edible garden

If you have n’t already staked or caged your Lycopersicon esculentum , do it now . We all have our preferred method of staking or caging , the master heading being to support the growing prow and to keep the developing fruit up and off the ground — off from pests and fungal trouble . Feed your Lycopersicon esculentum plant now with a humiliated - nitrogen fertiliser , and water consistently and on a regular basis , continue in idea that most tomato varieties opt less pee than you recollect . Mulch your tomato plants to preserve water now that the weather is warming up .

Switch over to imbed heat - tolerant lettuce varieties in your vegetable garden . Slower to bolt and more patient of of warm weather , summertime crisp lettuce are sweet and juicy . They are easy to produce and harvestable from child leaf to full size . Summer pelf are happiest when planted in full sunshine and rich soil with regular irrigation . Some great varieties are ‘ Muir ’ , ‘ Magenta ’ , ‘ Optima ’ , ‘ Kweik ’ , and ‘ Concept ’ .

Apply razzing netting to fruit crop . It ’s meter to protect your fruit tree , hemangioma simplex , blueberries , and cane berries now that the fruit is generate closer to harvesting time . Birds have an uncanny hang for figuring out precisely when the fruit is at its tasty , and they will get to it before you do unless you ’ve protect your fruit - producing works with bird netting .

Keep your hemangioma simplex bed as locoweed - free as possible . supervise for snails , slugs , sowbugs , and earwigs , as these pests can all wreak mayhem in the strawberry patch . Apply Sluggo Plus or a standardized mathematical product if need . Side - dress your strawberry plant life with a well - balance plant food for maximum wellness and continued Chuck Berry production .

Your summertime veggies are planted , your rose garden is in glorious bloom , and your heyday borders and recurrent bed are at their summertime best . It ’s time to relax a little bit — peradventure even seat down for a moment to enjoy the results of all your hard work !

— Fionuala Campion is the possessor and manager of Cottage Gardens of Petaluma in Petaluma , California .

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