What garden tasks are being tackled for early summer in my Zone 6, Ohio garden? In Part 1, I cover everything I’ve been doing in the garden during the month of June including harvesting, weeding, plant care & maintenance. Part 2 will cover scouting for and organic control of insect pests in the garden during early summer.
Related Videos:
Giant Kossak Kohlrabi: https://youtu.be/3MDKiDYsQTs
Growing Bulb Fennel: https://youtu.be/BthFkmyieF4
Harvest, Cure and Store Garlic: https://youtu.be/9o-uMxHZ2e4
Natural Mulches: https://youtu.be/CZTUMV5YeBA
Grow Corn: https://youtu.be/SlUXvfrqRLU
May Prep & Plant: https://youtu.be/c9M1tXlVCzc
Cover Crops in the Home Garden: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4zzslvkscX39ZhMYn3TsqP3taiLRt9JF
Prune & Trellis Indeterminate Tomatoes: https://youtu.be/syAnE7uwgSE
Pruning Determinate Tomatoes: https://youtu.be/BEosjWoDP08
00:00 Intro
00:57 Harvesting
05:41 Planting
07:05 Mulching
07:36 Weeding
08:54 Corn Plot Care
09:49 Removing Spent Plants
11:06 Fixing low lying beds
12:41 Planting summer cover crop
13:15 Succession sowings
14:44 The Great Bean Debacle
18:32 Training trellised plants & pruning tomatoes
19:59 Disease prevention in tomatoes
21:15 Garden overview
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I tried several types of dry beans for the first time and had very slow and spotty germination I will try diatomaceous and even sluggo plus next year
Love your videos. I can identify with many of your problems and successes. West central Indiana
A couple questions about your summer cover crop: (1) Do you mix the blend yourself or purchase a particular commercial blend? (2) What is the ratio of the three types of seeds? You surely must live in that garden with the size it is, the amount of maintenance you do, and the experimentation you undertake! It is a beautiful, fascinating space.
My pest pressure this season is the darn earwigs. I have planted beets twice and my lettuce which usually is an easy grow for me is very sparse. Then I found a flock of quail in the garden. They are both digging plants up as they dust themselves or eating tender young plants. Every year a new challenge.
I'm new to your channel and I live in zone 6b (they now say 7) but how in the world are your harvesting broccoli and cauliflower in June? Are they because the variety you are using is heat tolerant? How also are the cabbage moth not bothering them? Thanks for all the good information.
I have beans in a green stalk this year. Lots of flowers and looked great. But now they are yellowing. I thought maybe the sun so I moved them into a bit of shade. I don’t use fertilizer because I thought you weren’t supposed to on green beans. Should I give them something like fish emulsion?
Great video btw
Oh man. I have had the same problems with my green beans. 3 plantings to finally get them to survive the pill bugs and slugs. Never had this problem before either. My guess is I planted when it was still cool enough out for the bugs to get them. 3rd planting is finally growing better now and very minimal pest damage. I hope yours do well and look forward to part 2. Thanks Jenna!
Awesome
I am in zone 6a.
I practice what I call "compact inter cropping" I plant 4 seeds or plants 6 or 8" apart with 36" between hills. That way I have a wider walking area. I gently move potato vines to be in rows. When the potatoes bloom or corn tassels I plant between plants in the row. That gives the second crop room until the first crop is planted. This works for zucchini and cucumbers.
I just got my first corn and new potatoes. Loosen the soil near potatoes and get a few without harvesting the entire plant.
I also sow carrots and transplant swiss chard to the same area.
I am tired of the cheap tomato cages that fall over. I ordered trellis netting to replace the cages.
I compost and mulch, mostly grass clippings. I get about 2 tons. I might start a raised bed as a roof to the compost bin made if 8 x 8 x 16 concrete blocks.
I will watch more of your videos soon.
Nice shere
It is kinda strange, the satisfaction when you pull a whole dandelion root, lol. Should have pulled my garlic before the storms hit, good draining soil, will be OK for another few days. Same way, sticking extra plants wherever there is an open spot.
As always Jenna, your garden is awesome! Enjoy your videos, Stay Well !!!
Garden is looking spectacular excellent work Jenna! Thanks for inspiring my Ohio gardening as well, hope you continue seeing bountiful harvest!s
Jenna, how soon after serious hail damage would you apply a fertilizer?
1:19 😮😮😮 I didn't know kohlrabi came in GIANT
Besides the gardening u need to show your ink
Great tips, this is easily one of the highest quality gardening channels on Youtube! Thank you!
Nice video
Where do you purchase your cover crop?
It's crazy the differences in climate. All my cold season crops were done and out in May in upstate SC.
I’ve had the same issue with my beans this year!! The pill bugs love the dampness all the lengthy downpour weeks we’ve had here in southern MI.
Have you seen spotted lanternflies? I'm by Lake Erie, and I see them throughout the edges around my garden. I do what I can, usually a dish soap and neem oil spray. I'd rather not do that, but they are quick and jump quite well. I expect to see lots of adults flitting around in the Fall.
I love your garden Jenna! Thank you for sharing success tips for specific crops. I hope to be as knowledgeable and skilled as you someday!
Thanks for the video and update. For me up here in Cleveland, it’s been invasion of the chipmunks from hell this year. There is a whole society of chipmunks just digging and uprooting all my plants, in ground, raised beds and especially containers. Apart from the chipmunks, it’s been a decent year so far. Shade cloth is becoming an essential tool lately, my tomatoes can easily get fried to a crisp if left in the full sun the last few years.
19:20 Wow!!! 🤩🤩🤩
Do you think the purple cauliflower did better in the heat because the purple is actually sun protection for the plant?