June Gardening Must-Dos for Zone 7 🌼 | What Can I Plant Now

Hey everybody! 🌿 It’s Elizabeth, your fellow garden enthusiast, coming to you from my lovely garden in Northeast Arkansas. In this video, I’m diving into the secrets of companion planting for a healthier garden. Whether you’re new to gardening or have been at it for years, there’s something here for everyone!

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Gardening Tips to have an Amazing Garden in June

I love sharing tips and tricks to make your garden thrive, especially if you’re in zone 7 like me. This is part of my 2024 series on what to grow each month. 🌼🌱 When June rolls around, pests start to become a problem, but don’t worry! I’ve got advice on preventative insect repellents, organic insecticides, and the magic of companion planting. Did you know certain herbs can deter pests just with their smell? Cool, right?!

I’ll also share tips on direct sowing summer favorites like sunflowers, zinnias, marigolds, and more! Plus, learn how to pinch herb flowers to keep your plants bushy and flavorful, and why it’s important to back off on watering to help your plants develop deep, strong roots.

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CHAPTERS:
0:00 – Intro
1:04 – Time Sensitive Gardening Tips
5:36 – What You Can Still Direct Sow
6:53 – Pinch The Flowers
8:16 – Don’t Walk Through Your Garden When Wet
9:46 – Harden Off Your Plants Before Summer Heat Hits
15:29 – Deadhead Your Flowers
16:58 – Garlic & Onions are Ready to Harvest

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hey everybody it’s Elizabeth and welcome back to my garden located here in Northeast Arkansas if you’re new to the channel my name is Elizabeth hi and I just love to garden and share hopefully educational content with people who are new to gardening looking to get into it bought a single plan at the store and have no clue what you’re doing who whatever you are if you found this video Welcome this video is a part of a series I’m doing this year in 2024 leading into 2 for what you can grow or you can start growing every month if you’re located in zone 7 which zone 7 spans across a large part of the United States zones are the USDA agricultural zones and what determines your zone is pretty much like how intense your winter is so most people in zone 7 we have pretty mild Winters we’ll get to and below freezing but not for extended periods of time so welcome here we are so today we’re doing the video of what you can start growing in June in zone 7 so I want to mention too that in these videos I also like to include like some time sensitive gardening tips that may not directly pertain to planting seeds but things to be mindful of this month the biggest thing to be mindful of throughout the whole month of June is that when the weather starts to be warm consistently this is when we begin to see problems with the pests so you’re going to have bug problems you’ll have less if you’re going in containers you’ll have more if you’re growing a variety of things the cool thing about plants it’s also kind of weird but it’s cool is that certain plants put off well all plants put off a smell and certain insects are drawn to certain plants based on that smell and then also you have plants that when they are under stress say it’s like super freaking hot or you have underwatered them and they’re parched those stress signals also put off a specific smell that draws in pest so that’s why typically when it starts to get warm outside by chance that you are underwatering or just a heat wave came out of nowhere your plant’s going to get stressed out it’s going to put out that hormonal scent and like all of a sudden you got AIDS you got beetles you got Lord knows what and so you want to keep an eye out for pest you want to look for black spots that could be poo you want to look for munched on leaves that could be from any kind of worm Lord knows there’s lots of garden worms out there they are not our friends they not our friends so not going to go really deep into the garden pest but just want to mention that in June you want to do one of two things two things both if you’re really on your game and that is that you want to keep an eye out for the pest damage but it would really be a big favor to yourself to do preventative insect repellent so numerous ways you can do that one you can plant companion plants in your garden spaces there are certain herbs that that insects hate the smell of so this will help deter those insects it’s not 100% tried and truee but it’s a good organic way to prevent some insects or some damage and it also just looks beautiful growing things kind of interpac like marold with your Tomatoes Etc you can find that easily by Googling um companion planting for pests or even just companion planting and you’ll likely find a couple of websites down um a guide that lists all the the different companion plants and herbs for all the different summer vegetables another thing is to spray a preventative organic insecticide so there’s lots of insecticides out there but most of them are chemical Laden and you don’t want those taken up in your vegetables because then they will literally be in your food so look for the organic ones they do exist they’re probably more expensive um and decide based on the back of that container do you want to spray weekly or bi-weekly or every 10 days whatever recommends um and if you do it as a preventative and you get started in June you’re going to be way better off then come mid to late June Late July You’ve Got Bugs everywhere you’re trying to pick them off and you’re trying to do you know it’s just going to get to be a really stressful procedure then if you do your best to head that off in the beginning so if you were growing brassas now is the time to cover them so bra brassas would be cabbages and and broccoli a lot they prefer to be grown in the spring but say you started them in the spring and they’re just they’re still growing maybe they’re getting big maybe they’re almost ready to harvest insects love those because of the way they smell so you definitely want to cover those with Nets because those crops in particular are actually super susceptible to pest damage there’s almost nothing you can do to prevent them from being damaged eaten alive by insects and you don’t want to go through all this work and time to grow a beautiful head of cabbage or a beautiful head of broccoli get it in the house rinse it off start cutting it up and just be covered in worms and insects on the inside it is disgusting it happens it’s no fun so if you can cover them if you don’t know what that is you can Google you can look on Amazon it’s insect netting I’m pretty sure I have the one that I most recently bought saved on my Amazon storefront store I have a list on there for gardening lies everything that’s on there is stuff I currently am using and things that I love and recommend okay so the things that you could be direct sewing right now in June you can still be direct sewing sunflowers zenas NS marold borage basil and other warm weather flowers you can also still be direct sewing Southern peas you can still be doing like if you’re doing secession planting where you’re planting a few plants waiting a week and a few plants and waiting a week so that your Harvest is staggered you could still be doing that with like beans summer squash cucumbers Etc all those things can still be going in at this point depending on how long your growing season is it might be too late to be starting tomatoes and peppers by seeds um but definitely if there’s something you wanted to start by seeds maybe you missed them or you forgot or something happened then um just go to the store and get you some plants even if you just get the little tiny ones then at least that’s a better jum because like those small plants like this one I have right here is one I started by seed see this guy he’s not big he’s not big but he’s eight or nine weeks old okay so he is that’s that’s how long that takes so so if you miss something that you want to get in the ground just go buy it at the store who cares it’s still going to be great this time of year if you’ve got some herbs growing and they’re growing nice and bushy and they start to flower this is when you want to pinch the flower so I find that really hard to do because I actually love the flour on most of the herbs that I grow and I grow so many perennial herbs in the landscape because I do edible landscaping in all my flower beds and so a lot of my herbs here not only do I grow for medicinal purposes but I grow because they’re beautiful so if you’re doing that okay then disregard this next piece of advice but if you’re going herbs to harvest and dry the herbs or just to Harvest for fresh eating and cooking in say like your little Culinary Kitchen Garden then you want to pinch the flowers because when herbs start to flow it begins to change the taste of the leaves and some varieties of herbs can get bitter after that some don’t get bitter they just change so if you’re growing like say a regular basil because you want that basil taste and you want to harvest it and you want to make pesto and you want to do all these different things do not let that basil flour and when it’s starts a flower pinch it off what it’ll do is it’ll shoot up new leaves and the plant will get bushier so the more you just keep cutting off or pinching off the flowers of your herbs the plant will get bigger and Greener and bushier and will give you more of what it is you’re wanting to harvest more than likely which would be the leaves okay one tip I want to mention because this is something that I don’t hear other people mention very much and that is that say that your plants are really like feeling in where when you walk through your garden you might be kind of rubbing up against like bushes tomato plants or whatever if you’re doing in ground garden and you’re walking through and you might bump into the plants if your plants are wet so say you just watered them or it just rained and you walk through your garden you dramatically increase the odds of spreading diseases from plant to plant because the plants are wet you’re touching them and then you’re touching other plants so they say A good rule of thumb is don’t walk through your garden when it’s wet and if you’re Watering your garden in the evening like most people recommend to do you don’t want to water in the morning you don’t want to water midday with the sun shining like beating down on Plants so when you water in the evening you want to water and kind of back yourself out of your garden and just try not to bump into wet plants now if you’re if you’re in ground Garden like mine back here is a baby garden that’s just starting and stuff’s not even near touching each other you don’t have to worry about that and in our inground Garden we actually space things five to six feet apart so that we can till the walkway keep it clean get down there with wheelbarrows and all sorts of stuff so because of that none of our plants ever touch so that’s great except for when we girls s squash they tend to get way bigger than we anticipate so they uh we could you know rub things between them okay so another thing to really be mindful of is this time of year say say you did everything on your timeline just perfectly you follow the other videos in this series yay thank you um and you have started seeds indoors you potted them up and then you transplanted them and you hardened them off and then you transplanted them and you did all those things like you’re supposed to and say now come June your plants have been in the ground for four plus weeks um you’ve probably if you’ve been worried about your plants or babying them you’ve probably been watering them every day every other day maybe 3 four days a week whatever your schedule has been based on whatever rainfall you guys get but this is the time before you get to the real summer heat when the professionals say you want to back off on your watering because what happens is when you water less than your plants need knowing that you’re giving them less than what they need they do their job as plants and they put their Roots down they will naturally push their Roots down looking for water that’s their job that’s how they survive if you’re constantly watering them every single day their roots are happily watered at the surface so your roots are only as deep as you planted them whether that’s 4 6 8 in whatever they’re just kind of growing right there because they’ve got all the moisture they need right there so you have to starve them of moisture so that they then put their Roots down because they will make much stronger plants and then come July and August when it’s really hot and there’s a heat wave and maybe you’ve not had rain or watered in 4 days and the temp is 97 with 100% humidity your plant’s going to have Roots way down there and they are going to be right where they need to be and they’re going to tap into the natural moisture that is found below the surface and they might not produce through a real tough heat spell but they will survive on their own without you hand watering them through a heat spell so June is when you want to start just pulling back your frequency of watering maybe cut it in half um they say you should only do it once a week that sounds crazy to me um so if you’re getting rainfall once a week if it’s you know a decent shower don’t water it all you know just kind of depends on where you’re at but just be mindful of that try to cut back and know that the first week or so of you cutting back on water and your plants are going to struggle they need to adapt they’re going to wilt they’re going to look sad and then they’re going to put their Roots down and then they’re going to just perk back up and you’ll go out there in the morning and they’ll look great another note for coming into the warmer weather is that if you look get your plants midday sun is high or right before Sunset and your plants are wited down do not panic that is normal if it’s really hot outside and that’s what they’re doing they turn their leaves in on itself to protect the plant from the Sun but if you go out in the morning and your plants are wited they are starved of water because what should happen with a healthy plant is it may or may not but if it does wilt down in midday or by the evening because it’s hot but throughout the night one there’s going to be Dew they’re going to have the relief of the sun on them they’re going to have their Roots down they’re going to be pushing their Roots further down because they’re thirsty they’ll might be having a morning Dee so by morning they should be all opened up and looking beautiful like normal to do it all over again and then as they wil down they just continue to push the roots down and get stronger and stronger uh but if they’ve not recovered themselves by in the morning you need to assist them you need to Deep deep water that one plant in that one spot to make sure you can give that plant a better chance at surviving if you have some summer plants that are still going like I have some lettu uses back here in a container um anything that does not love heat lettuce greens a lot of them are going to start bolting that’s normal for this time of year if you’ve got a lettuce plant you walk out one day and it’s shot up a stem and it’s got like a flower butt on it and you’re think what in the world is happening to this lettuce it’s bolting which means it’s dying um but it’s really cool it’s a beautiful process if you’re growing like a perennial Cottage Garden and you don’t care about like really planning your layout for the next year let all that stuff go to seed because what it’s happening is the plant is like okay it’s too hot for me to live it’s the end of my life I’ve done my job I’ve made some leafy lettuce I’m going to shoot up my flow which is me making my babies and then the flower will die and that that turns into seeds and then the seeds will just naturally scatter with wind and there you go they have secured the Next Generation of lettuce so a lot of gardeners want to be able to control the layout and the placement of their vegetables every year so they know what’s there um so a lot of people do not want things self-seeding in their vegetable garden so if that will be okay with you go for it um I would love to do that in some areas of my garden starting to incorporate that this year but the thing is you just have to be mindful like the next spring when something random starts to come up you have to be on it enough to be like is that a weed or is that a lettuce like you know what I mean and you really need to be gardening I feel like for a few years to be able to tell the difference between a 3in tall broccoli seedling and like iceberg lettuce like it just takes a while and some of them look just like weeds until they get to be a foot tall so you really you just have to I don’t know I don’t know how I’m going to do it but you just have to like let a bed be wild and see what comes back that would be cool maybe I could do that to this bed over here behind me that you can’t see dead head your flowers because they love it and they will produce more so roses zenas I mean not your sunflowers of course but like marold um those things they just they do a lot better when you dead head them and also I want to mention fertilizing I mentioned this in a lot of videos um I specifically do a bi-weekly fertilizer for my landscape flower beds and so that is just on my calendar and I will do um I fertilize my vegetable plants my summer annuals weekly this is important to me because you have to think about the fact that your summer annuals are only alive so long three four five months their job is to produce then they die so you want them to produce as much as possible you want them to have all the nutrients they need you want them to be thriving and to make you as many tomatoes as possible or squash or Peppers or whatever it is so you want to just make sure your plant is thriving it has all the nutrients it needs so because of that I water mine once a week I use an organic fertilizer it’s a water soluble one it’s one that you just put inside your water hose and then you water I’m actually fixing to do that here in just a minute so that’ll be great and this week um so every two weeks it falls on the same day where I need to fertilize vegetable garden and Landscape uh flowers so that’s great I just go through and I literally just water everything with that takes me about an hour but then I know everything is good and everything is covered so that is fabulous last thing I want to mention is if you started growing um garlic and onions last year you would have had to have started them in the fall um now is the time for most varieties that they will be ready to harvest the bulb so um if you started growing them last year then you know come spring they shot up like a new green growth and um hopefully uh if it started to try in flour you cut that off because that’s what you’re supposed to do and sometimes that can happen in May or June sometimes won’t happen at all but if they shot up the stem and they made flowers like just like with anything else that means it’s trying to die it’s going to seed so when you’re growing something for a bulb like that you just chop that off and it will continue to grow the bulb so if you did that and now your stem um that you had left there is starting to fall over and or turning yellow you want it at least half falling over because what happens is it’ll start to turn yellow and it’s telling you that the bulb underneath is almost ready and then it’ll start to fall over and it’s like more ready and then it’s falling over it’s more ready so the point is if you just wait until it’s like just literally falling over then your bulb is as good as it’s going to get so at that point you want to go in and harvest your onions and your garlic and then you got to dry them so then that’s a whole other process but anyways hopefully that was helpful um if you are a seasoned Gardener and you have any other tips for brand new gardeners leave them in the comment below we are community of love a community of learning and education and you know sharing is caring so share whatever helpful tips you have and I hope you guys have a wonderful day