Chore list for the first week of June
Tomato, pepper, eggplant:
* Set out transplants
* Place mulch around plants
* Place bamboo support next to peppers and eggplant
Cucumber, squash, melon:
* Set out transplants
Strawberry:
* Mulch around plants to keep fruit off the ground
All Crops:
*protect from slugs and snails
Potatoes:
* sow main crop
* If you have potatoes growing, hill soil/straw around plants to increase yield
Leaf lettuce, carrot, beet, sweet corn, radish:
* Make additional sowings in the garden
Bush type summer squash;
* Sow seed for container planting
Garlic:
*cut scapes and use in cooking so the garlic bulbs will form
Plants you can sow under cover or indoors in the next two weeks from Mother Earth News reminders: Cabbage, Fall Red - can you believe it? They are talking about FALL! Plants you can sow outdoors or plant out over the next two weeks: Basil Beans (bush and snap) Borage (we have a lot of starts at the school garden if you want one or two. Chives (garlic chives) Corn Onion Peas Pepper, Jimmy Nardello's Potatoes (main crop) Pumpkin Sweet Potato Watermelon Zucchini Flowers Cleome, Coreopsis, Daylily, Echinacea, Gazania, Geranium, Gladiolus Gomphrena, Impatients, Johnny Jump Up, Latana, Lemon Balm Salvia, Sunflower, Verbena, Zinnia Finally, Let's talk a bit about planning for a Fall/Winter garden. I've provided you a link below to the best book I've found as a step by step guide to growing year round. It gives a wide variety of information on how your garden can provide fresh organic vegetables all year long. I know we're just getting our summer gardens going but by planning ahead now we will be ready to go this summer as we sow for fall/winter. As you can see I use this book a lot! Four-Season Harvest - Eliot Coleman  |
