JUNE GARDEN CALENDER
Excerpted from "The Rockwell's Complete Guide to Successful Gardening" by
Frederick F. Rockwell and Esther C. Grayson
Doubleday & Co. 1965
Seasons vary from year to year--Let each year's conditions dictate when and how you tackle these tasks.
1. Feed, water and mow lawns once a week. (Better yet--put in more flower beds and spend less time and energy messing with a lawn at all--sic)
2. Plant tender bulbs like caladiums and cannas.
3. Set out tender annuals and veggies if not done already.
4. Shade newly set tender plants for a couple days.
5. Stake tall growing perennials that haven't bloomed yet.
6. Cut back early blooming perennials (or better yet, observe them closely--if they still look interesting and attractive setting seeds, leave them alone).
7. Sew a second set of short blooming annuals like candytuft, nigella and cornflower. This will keep a succession of flowers coming.
8. Watch for aphids in cool, wet weather. Spray with soap spray.
9. Pinch tall growing annuals, chrysanthemums, asters, etc. Late flowering plants (asters and mums) can be pinched until the 4th of July.
10. Now is the time to dig and divide Lily of the Valley and Primroses.
11.Just before June flowering feed your roses. Trim junky canes and remove dead flowers. If you spray your roses, keep it up. Better yet, choose disease resistant ones (very shiny leafed varieties are disease resistant) Remember rugosa roses should NEVER be sprayed. (sic)
12. Dig tulips when leaves mature. Keep lilies well watered and fed this month for optimum bloom. Lay maturing bulb leaves aside, do NOT remove it. Opinions are divided as to whether its okay to tie the leaves or not. You make the call.
13. Apply mulch. Best mulch hands down--compost.
14. Place tender water lilies into water gardens now.
15. Feed the following after they flower--Delphinium, lupine, Oriental Poppies, Columbine, Peonies, Iris
16. Begin tying tomato plants if you stake them.
2. Plant tender bulbs like caladiums and cannas.
3. Set out tender annuals and veggies if not done already.
4. Shade newly set tender plants for a couple days.
5. Stake tall growing perennials that haven't bloomed yet.
6. Cut back early blooming perennials (or better yet, observe them closely--if they still look interesting and attractive setting seeds, leave them alone).
7. Sew a second set of short blooming annuals like candytuft, nigella and cornflower. This will keep a succession of flowers coming.
8. Watch for aphids in cool, wet weather. Spray with soap spray.
9. Pinch tall growing annuals, chrysanthemums, asters, etc. Late flowering plants (asters and mums) can be pinched until the 4th of July.
10. Now is the time to dig and divide Lily of the Valley and Primroses.
11.Just before June flowering feed your roses. Trim junky canes and remove dead flowers. If you spray your roses, keep it up. Better yet, choose disease resistant ones (very shiny leafed varieties are disease resistant) Remember rugosa roses should NEVER be sprayed. (sic)
12. Dig tulips when leaves mature. Keep lilies well watered and fed this month for optimum bloom. Lay maturing bulb leaves aside, do NOT remove it. Opinions are divided as to whether its okay to tie the leaves or not. You make the call.
13. Apply mulch. Best mulch hands down--compost.
14. Place tender water lilies into water gardens now.
15. Feed the following after they flower--Delphinium, lupine, Oriental Poppies, Columbine, Peonies, Iris
16. Begin tying tomato plants if you stake them.
