[Diana in Wisconsin]

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[left that other site]

Good Morning! :-)

[Uncle Miltie]

I’m moving this month to a new property I’ve been preparing for about 2 years. Planted and succeeding so far are:

Apples
Plum
Pears
Fig
Garlic
Peas
Fava beans
Rhubarb
Blueberries
Raspberries
Strawberries
Potatoes (in deference to Dan Quayle)
Rosemary
Tarragon
Thyme
Szechuan Pepper
Japanese Pepper

Just trying to get there often enough to keep them watered!

[Bon of Babble]

We have warm, soon hot weather settling in - which means hot winds - I have been replacing a lot of my landscaping plants with succulents.

I don't have a lot of time today b/c I'm having cataract surgery in a few hours - looking forward to getting my vision back!!

I can't put water in any of my bird baths b/c of the mosquito problem, so I use fire glass instead. Also, a succulent bowl ready to be planted:

Hoping for another Dodger World Series win this year!

This very odd orange mandevilla hasn't stopped blooming since I got it off the $1 table at Lowe's two years ago:

Happy Gardening to All!!

[BipolarBob]

Question on tomatoes. Is there any advantage to clipping or topping tomatoes over so high? My plants are strong and thick (not thin spindly) but they are getting quite tall. I have normal amount of blooms and tomatoes. I hate to fix so things if it’s not broke. Your thoughts?

[Libloather]

18 pepper plants in pots. Warm spring so the seedlings were transplanted in early April. Several feet tall by now. Going all kinda non-GMO. Bone meal, worm castings as well as Alaska Fish Fertilizer and Alaska Morbloom. Getting pretty good at making a batch of worm tea.

https://youtu.be/xeRjnF0BgBA?si=s97I21A5-8r1eLx7

[Albion Wilde]

Repeat post from last month's thread for any newbies who may visit:

[Diana in Wisconsin]

June Gardening Tips and To-Do List by Planting Zones and Region

Are you new to gardening and wondering what you should be working on this month? If you do a quick internet search, things become confusing.

Should you go according to your region or your planting zone?

The truth is, you should be concerned with both your region and your zone. The reason being is people can share the same planting zones, though they’re in different regions.

Different regions face dry seasons and wet seasons at different times of the year. All these factors can change your gardening tasks.

Which is why we’re going to give you the whole picture. You can match your tasks for your zone with the region you’re in and create a customized to-do list for your garden.

Here are the tasks at hand:

https://morningchores.com/june-gardening-tips/

Zone Five

Mums are starting to appear in this region. It’s important to care for them on a bi-weekly basis. Be sure to prune the mums back ½ inch each pruning session. - I don’t have any perennial Mums planted. DONE! :)

Fertilize roses. DONE!

Harvest asparagus. End of the season for me. DONE!

Begin planting beans and cole crops for the fall garden. - One more bush bean to get in and then I’m DONE! Broccoli and Kale are IN! DONE!

Care for tomato plants regularly to fight first signs of disease or infestation of pests. - Do you mean REPLANT your tomato plants that were dug up by raccoons the very evening of the day you planted them? Then - DONE! :)

[Sawdring]

Growing in zone 4, what would you replace Buck Thorn with? I was thinking Prickly Ash and ferns.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

May blossomed into June and you moved forward to this new thread! But if you hurried and left behind your corsage, or perhaps a recipe, click on the photo below to link back and retrieve it!

[metmom]

All the peppers and tomatoes made it. Tonight is forecast to be pretty nippy, too, but it looks like we’re in the clear after that.