June Garden Calendar

First week spray for codling moth and scab in apple and pear trees.  Continue use of pheromone traps for insect pest detection.

If you have had problem with apple maggot insect, try coating three or four red balls with Tanglefoot (a sticky product like glue) and hanging them on the tree

Plant insectary plants to attract beneficial insects to your garden.

Learn to identify beneficial insects such as ground beetles, rove beetles, ladybugs and their larvae, lacewings and their larvae, minute pirate bugs, syrphid or flower flies, spiders and wasps.

Apply fertilizer to lawn.

When mowing never cut more than one-third of the grass-blade length.  If the grass is three inches long mow off one inch.

Control adult root weevils in rhododendrons, azaleas, primroses and other ornamentals.  Use beneficial nematodes if soil temperature is above 55F.

Remove seed pods after blooms have dropped from rhododendrons, and azaleas after blooming.

Prune lilacs, forsythia, rhododendrons, and azaleas after blooming.  Control garden weeds by pulling , hoeing, or mulching.

Sow the seeds of green beans, sweet corn and squash (summer and winter) directly into the vegetable garden,

Plant starts of tomatoes, peppers and eggplants.

Sow seeds of Zinnia,cosmos, sunflowers directly into the garden.

Plant cucumber around the middle of the month.  Cool temperature cause bitterness.

Continue to bait for slugs and snails especially around new plants.

Cut rhubab.  Cease harvesting when stalks begin to get spindly.  Trim off seed stalks.

Harvest ripe vegetables.  Thin future squash and pumpkin crops by cutting off blossoms.

Use netting to protect blueberry plants from robins and other birds who like the berries.

Trim watersprouts or suckers from the trunks of fruit trees.

To attract hummingbirds to the flower garden plant crocosmia, nasturtium, Salvia and penstemon.

Happy gardening !

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