Our vegetable patch welcomes you to a new month, where we can harvest what was sown in previous months and grow new fruits and vegetables. He planting calendar of the month of June It brings specific tasks, which we will have to do to the letter so as not to affect the planting and to be able to collect tasty organic food.
Garden care during June
The heat is pressing, so it is very important that we have controlled the irrigation of our vegetable patcheither manual or automatic. In June the most common pests appear, which we will have to control. If we have planted the summer vegetables in April, it is possible that during this month we can already start to pick some tomatoes or peppers, but the usual thing is that we still collect the spring vegetables: onions, strawberries, chickpeas, peas, broad beans, potatoes, artichokes and chard.
Calendar is planted for June
Ideally, you should have planted most of your summer vegetables in May, but if you are late, still in June some nightshades and cucurbits can be planted. If you want to have melons, watermelons and pumpkins you should have planted them in May, but if you haven’t, proceed as soon as possible. Below is the final list of planting calendar:
- Chard
- Lettuce
- Eggplant
- Cabbage
- Leek
- Cucumber
- Cauliflower
- Tomato
- Pepper
- Zucchini
Direct sowing of many other vegetables can also be carried out although, as usual, it is more difficult for them to grow well directly in the ground than from a seedling.
- Bean
- Sunflower
- Watermelon
- Pumpkin
- Cucumber
- Melon
Seedbeds that we can prepare in June
Finally, in our country, during Junewe can prepare seedbeds, following the recommendations of the planting calendar. Consequently, we suggest you prepare a seedbed for your vegetable patch that have:
- Endive
- Cabbage
- Leek
- Lettuce
- Cauliflower
- Lombarda