By Backyard Gardener
This Month In the Garden
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June Garden Tips:
- Replace mulch and aerate soil in permanent potted gardens.
- Remove spent flowers from spring annuals to stretch the blooming season.
- Plant fall-blooming perennials now.
- Prune once-blooming roses after they’ve flowered this month.
- Trim back vines (spring-blooming clematis and wisteria) after they bloom.
- Begin feeding vegetable plants as they start to flower.
- Continue to spray peach and apple trees to control fungal diseases.
- Plant balled-and-burlapped and container shrubs and trees.
- Lightly prune tips of blackberries and pinch flowers off young grapevines to form and train growth of new canes.
- Set out seedlings of warm-weather vegetables and annuals.
- Sow seeds of heat-loving vegetables (squash, pumpkins, melons) directly into the ground.
- Continue to fertilize roses and treat with fungicide as needed.
- Pinch off flower buds to promote leafier basil plants.
- Fertilize vegetable plants as they begin to bloom.
- Take cuttings from your favorite shrubs when the branch wood hardens slightly.
- Set out seedlings of late-summer flowering annuals.
- Add a layer of mulch (2-3 inches) around newly planted trees and shrubs.
- Cut back and thin out diseased or spindly branches of spring-flowering shrubs.
- Fill flower garden gaps with larger sizes of summer-blooming annuals.
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