June and July - Grower's Calendar

June and July - Growing in the Garden and at Home: How to Care for Plants in Beds and Pots in January. Tips, Advice and Guides from Sowing to Harvest...

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June and July - Growing in the Garden and at Home: How to Care for Plants in Beds and Pots. Tips, Advice and Guides from Sowing to Harvest

Summer months bring peak growing season for both outdoor gardens and indoor plants. Whether you're tending to vegetable beds, flower gardens, or container plants, June and July require specific care to ensure healthy growth and abundant harvests.

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Garden in June and July

Summer days are within reach and with each passing moment, your garden transforms into a little paradise on earth. Freshness and greenery radiate from every corner. Leaves reveal vitality and beauty. Birds play in the tree crowns and everything seems to live its own life. Don't let yourself be lulled by the naturally pleasant atmosphere and neglect something. In June there's just as much work as in other months, and if we miss the train, we'll lose some of the fruits of our initial care. June is all about sweet fruit - when else but right now to harvest excellent strawberries. Nothing beats freshly picked ones.

Vegetable Care

In June, sown carrots, red radishes, early kohlrabi or bush beans ripen. During this period, you can plant cabbage, Brussels sprouts, but also lettuce.

Tomatoes

Tomatoes are among fast-growing plants that need support in the form of a simple structure for proper growth. They attach best around spiral metal stakes. Stake varieties require more radical care. Continuously remove side shoots. Without this procedure, you'll have a weak fruit yield. With bush varieties, be careful as nothing is broken off. Support their health with a suitable organic fertilizer for fruit vegetables, which you dilute with fertilizer solution in a similar way as when preparing fertilizer for fruit trees. The main enemy of tomatoes is rain, as fungal parasitic pests develop due to wet weather.

Cover your fruits from rain and grow them in a suitable location.
Never water the leaves.
Protect tomatoes with designated biological preparations

Peppers

These will bring you real joy during the growing season. Their growth is very noticeable during this time, including in terms of numbers. For this reason, it's important to tie them carefully, as there's a risk of breakage.

Potatoes

If you want to meet with a truly golden bounty at the end of their journey, don't forget to hill them with soil in June. Gray-black spots indicate that the weather was too hot or humid and the potatoes were attacked by unpleasant potato blight. As a preventive measure, avoid over-fertilizing potatoes with nitrogen, and also use a copper fungicide at the first signs. Solve problems with Colorado potato beetles by manual collection. Their striking coloring gives them away quite quickly.

Herbs and Medicinal Plants

We are at the ideal time for harvesting medicinal plants, whether it's chamomile, St. John's wort, calendula, nettle or yarrow, but also others, so you can start preparing a drying space with a clear conscience. Always schedule harvesting during sunny weather and try to dry them as quickly as possible. Ideally in a dark and dry place with plenty of air circulation. Aromatic herbs are also ready for harvesting, you'll see that they will regrow in just a few moments. If you're unsure, these include lavender, oregano, rosemary, but also others. Trim the tops and let them bush out beautifully.

Fruit Trees

June will reveal how our fruit trees are doing with their fruits. Don't leave trees and shrubs to their fate and fertilize them properly. You can use either your own compost or organic granulated fertilizer. It's also possible to use well-aged nettle tea.

June - The Month of Strawberries

With the arrival of June, there's one last chance for loosening the soil and carefully weeding the beds. The harvest won't be long in coming and the first signs of red fruits will be here before you know it. It's also worth considering laying down mulching material to protect the roots from drying out and the fruits from rot.

Don't Forget

In June, you can propagate ornamental trees such as Japanese maple, magnolia, hydrangea, and heather.
Harvest your asparagus and rhubarb, otherwise they will deteriorate.
In June, the most important task is to eliminate weeds in time.
Bulbs are ready for possible relocation to a better spot, where they'll wait until autumn arrives.
Cherry harvesting also has its challenges. If you don't pick them with the stem, they will store poorly with regard to their shelf life.
June is a beautiful growing experience. Nature offers its first fruits for tasting and many others are preparing for their final days before being picked. For the first time, it becomes apparent how careful we were at the start of the season. If everything is going as it should, don't let up and complete all the important tasks that will prepare your garden for the coming months.