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Saturday, June 6, 2020

Welcome to your June 2020 garden

Welcome to June 2020.  On this rainy Saturday it's time to make our lists and see what chores are on the schedule for this upcoming week.  I'm also going to introduce you to my  favorite resource book.

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