In this video I answer the question, “What vegetables can I plant in June?” with my top 12 choices for vegetables to sow in June. I’ll also show you companion planting for the June Vegetable organic garden.
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How to Prune & Trellis Tomatoes:https://youtu.be/EfENBDBs-2M
How to Grow Tomatoes: https://youtu.be/9w-7RoH_uic?si=SapQf9bn1BrHCtBU
How to Grow Summer Squash Vertically to Save Space: https://youtu.be/MEOLY9D5n2k?si=QK6tj9g6HtId6l0a
How to Get Rid of Squash Vine Borer: https://youtu.be/zNVTvmRmBw4?si=tRgZXao98SXdd4WE
How to Get Rid of Squash Bugs: https://youtu.be/3MZ_4R5GDC4?si=vcI0oNdcLgi1G47_
How to Grow Beans: https://youtu.be/nkZH0rKhMr8?si=CmWbltO-FOyga6J_
DIGITAL TABLE OF CONTENTS
00:14 – How to grow peppers
03:11 – How to grow summer squash
03:41 – How to melons & pumpkins
05:13- How to grow winter squash
06:10 – How to grow cucumbers
07:32 – How to grow basil and
09:04 – How to grow Rosemary, Thyme and Oregano
09:46 – How to grow sweet corn
10:57 – How to grow okra
11:36 – How to grow beans
13:16 – BONUS! Companion Planting
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35 Comments
My go to item is Barry's Crazy cherry tomatoes! Yum💛💛
I don't worry about hornworms, but I do have the parasitic wasp that lays eggs on the hornworm. They never live long enough to do any damage! Last year I had 12 hornworms, but they only are a few leaves before the wasps found them, so I keep the wasps living in my garden! You will know you have them if you find a worm with "rice" attached on the back, let it stay because the worm will not eat another bite because the larva is eating the worm from the inside out!
My must haves this year are tomatoes and sweet corn, although I’m looking forward to the bell peppers too!🍅🌽🫑
About to run out and pop some bean seeds next to my potatoes. Thanks!
I let my mustard greens flower and stay and I had no bugs on my cucumbers and tomatoes. They were feasting on the mustard greens!
The cottage garden is off the hook beautiful!!!
Watermelon, Cantaloupes and Sweet potatoes are my must this summer! Oh, and Sugar cane.
It’s been a disastrous year for gardening here in northeastern Ohio, zone 6B. I just got my garden in the ground two days ago. The morning temps will be cool for the next four mornings, under 55 degrees, most certainly. I just hope my poor peppers can handle it. If I get anything this year,I’ll consider myself lucky.
The calf has the zoomies.
Oh no no no 😔 NEVER top your pepper plants, this is not going to ever do any actual benefits unless you are pruning for space constraints or plant training such as for bonchi. You will always negatively impact your yield if you top your plants, it's more than been proven at this point.
Just give them appropriate root space and nutrients and you never have to top or pinch flowers, you'll get the absolute most out of your plants this way.
Thank you for all the extra information on peppers
Spot on information for Texas planting peppers in pairs. My tomatoes are over 5ft tall and starting to harvest multiple types of veggies. Shade cloth is a requirement for sure. I watched your animals running several times. So cute how they all ran together.
I cant get rid of mildew on zucchini…help
Concentrating on green beans and carrots this year. Also the usual zucchini and cherry tomatoes. Late warm up here in metro Denver again this year. Hope we do better than last year.
My bumper crops are potatoes and tomatoes I've got a few bell peppers which I'm going to share with my guinea pigs. I've just had to move some of my containers out of direct sun cause it's so hot here and into the shade
Thank you
I am really trying some new things. Sorghum, & dent corn. When I plant my peppers I put them in the center of my bed & surround them with eggplants. This year I’m doing the Asian eggplants with basil here & there. I’m in zone 7a.
I’m in so cal too. Just for fun, I planted out the seeds from a yellow sweet pepper a few months ago. Oh my, they all came in. I separated them and transplanted them and gave away. They are growing vigorously. Go figure. Not sure what I’ll end up with but gardening is one lovely experiment.
Great video! I'm kinda old and slow, and this is some good news for strains I'm behind on sprouting. Thank you!
Fantastic video; the animals are beautiful! Central Texas here so okra is at the top of my list, and I’m absolutely using your companion planting book as a guide 🤠
I have my rosemary by my garden gate & hook berries right in back of it. Anytime I have had root becomes a monster
On the other side of the United States, the seedlings you buy seems to be diseased, having to really work to keep them living, but I did plant early.
Need more nitrogen?
Baking soda and water? Or grass clippings in water two weeks? Need help 🤣♥️🙏🙏
Corn. 🌽😂✝️🙏🙏🙏🙏
Time to also plant lemon balm (mint). Honey bees et al love lemon balm. One of highest pollenator attractors. Honey bees use this and it INCREASES their honey production. Planting lemon balm around your bee hives, keeps them happy. Lemon balm oil painted inside a new hive box is like hospital sterile and sanitized smell – bees love lemon balm. If you smoke your hive, put lemon balm into the snoke, and the bees will instantly calm down versus thinking there is a fire, … and the smoke actually clogs up their hormone senses – so they can't smell the guard bee fear or attack hormone emissions. When you inspect you bee hives, even with casual attendance, put lemon balm oil across the hive entrance. This stops hive beetles, varroa mites on the bee, wax moths from entering via the hive entrance. With the poop chute mesh at the bottom of the hive, also spritz lemon balm oil onto the meshing, and this stops wax moths, hive beetles, and varroa mites, red spiders from gaining entrance via this entire opening. The lemon balm aroma then wafts through the hive, keeping these insects away from the bees. They suffocate, while the bees can breathe and tolerate the aroma. The more you take care of your hives, the more the bees can do their jobs as nectar gatherers.
One can also do this with mason bee tubes, nests, houses, leaf cutter bees. This will stop earwigs and other insects from parasiting the eggs.
Planting scattered lemon balm across the ENTIRE GARDEN, orchard, vineyard has more pollination potentials than having companion planting, camouflage aroma plants. When the whole garden etc smells of an entirely different smell than tomato, potato. egg plant, … (all selenide species ) squash bugs, etc. Lemon balm is the greater insect barrier and insect pollinator plant for one's garden pollination and production.
I am looking forward to planting beans for the first time.
Stephen Sobkowski (YT Canadian permaculture channel) mentions the real reason why you are getting aphids, is because your nitrogen soil and plants content is TOO HIGH. Aphids are literally trying to drain down the nitrogen to respectable levels. So MiracleGrow would draw in aphids, … all too high (not totally decomposed compost and manure teas) would have too high a nitrogen content – AND you get aphids ! Aphids appear in the later time period when the plants need to consider hardening off for fall harvesting. Aphids remove the "grow" nitrogen hormone, allowing the plant to concentrate on final fruit production and not plant growth. Same for post-harvest, post-frost fall/winter composting and fertilizing the garden. Fall/winter/early spring fertilization with snow and rain, gives proper fertilization to plant growth (when needed) and not Spring fertilization having extensive Summer/Fall plant growth and stunted fruit production. Proper fertilization cycles in the earth Spring provides the proper cycle of nutrition and fruit production.
If you find dandelions appearing in your garden, you have calcium and trace mineral deficiency. Dandelions are soil remediators. They pull up deep trace minerals and restore calcium to those areas. Dandelions are soil indicators amongst other plants. When you see dandelions, know that that big or small region needs calcium and trace minerals (rock dust) for soil health. Don't pull dandelions (unless you want herbal tinctures). When they have accomplished their mission, they will move on. If you follow their soil hints and apply the needed products, the dandelions will move on.
If you have bindweed, crab grass, Bermuda grass, even wild lettuce, mowing into your garden, alongside pigweed amaranth, lamb's quarters, you soil is above healthy nutrition levels, … wrong-season fertilized soil, … and these will come into the garden as soil indicators that you need to correct YOUR methods of fertilization. post-harvest, post-frost fall, winter, earliest spring fertilization, … and you won't have these weeds coming into the garden !!!
Excellent video, per usual on your channel. I can only container-garden at this point and I use well-constructed grow bags. Are your recommendations from this video the same for direct sowing seeds into grow bags in June, and for companion planting? I use 5-gallon, 10-gallon, 15-gallon bags. Yes, I am aware of the need for high quality soil, proper moisture, mulch, appropriate fertilizer, sun/shade needs, etc. And I’ve watched lots of your other videos. Thanks!
I love that I stumbled across your channel! I used to keep a small garden regularly, but fell away from it for a variety of reasons. I'm now trying to start vegetable gardening again and am taking notes of the many ideas and tips you share. I will start this year by getting some basil in with my tomatoes to be sure!
I grew dill with my veggies. One day I noticed one of the dill had become a great trap crop because it was covered in aphids! Nothing else had aphids even being so close to the infected dill. THEN I saw one little lady bug! I was so excited! In a few days the dill had so many ladybug nymphs all over the plant. In a few more days everything was gone and the dill kept growing! I was happy to have added to the ladybug population!! Companion planting really does work!
I’ve got banana peppers and bell peppers. I am in Texas I’m seeing holes in my leaves. What can I use that is not a chemical? Thanks for another great video.
Another great video! Thanks again!
What about sweet potatoes??
Brian – like YT James Prigioni you are doing tomato vertical gardening. One of the biggest faux pas of vertical gardening is to stop growing redwood tree tomato plants with highest and extensive vining. With an adolescent and matyring plant, their actual growing area will be further down the vine than the top tip. All of the growth hormone is causing the excessive and wasteful growing of the extended vine. Cut off the top vine (stopping the GROW !!! hormone) to 2 (two) branches above the flowering and fruit area. There will never be any higher flowering and fruiting so don't waste the tomato energies for that area. Why cut 2 branches above the fruit – shading. These top 2 layers of leaves protect the flowers and fruit keeping them shaded, but also open to pollination. Doing this you won't have the continual dropping of the tomato vines on the trellis strings. Less actual plant growth now moved into the FLOWER and FRUIT !!! hormones – will have greater and longer production, as well as continually picking young and medium aged tomatoes. Doing so stops any "I am done !" hormones getting back to the plant – and it dies off. with no dying hormone present, the plant continues to flower and fruit wanting descendants. Longer and greater flowering and fruiting production – especially with topping the plants and concentrating their growing into flowering and fruiting – versus vining and just growing a long energy-wasting plant.