Planting June 2021 Planting and Chat thread

[packyderms_wife]

Planting Calendar - Gardening by the moon

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• 1st – 2nd
  Set strawberry plants. Excellent for any vine crops such as beans, peas, and cucumbers. Good days for transplanting. Favorable time for planting late root crops.
• 3rd – 5th
  Cut hay or do plowing on these barren days.
• 6th – 7th
  Good days for transplanting. Good days for planting root crops.
• 8th – 10th
  Seeds planted now tend to rot in ground.
• 11th – 12th
  Excellent for sowing seedbeds and flower gardens. Plant tomatoes, beans, peppers, corn, cotton, and other aboveground crops on these most fruitful days.
• 13th – 17th
  Poor period for planting. Kill plant pests, clear fencerows, or clear land.
• 18th – 19th
  Sow grains and forage crops. Plant flowers. Favorable for planting peas, beans, tomatoes, and other fall crops bearing aboveground.
• 20th – 21st
  Plant seedbeds. Extra good for planting fall lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower, collards, and other leafy vegetables. All aboveground crops planted now will do well.
• 22nd – 23rd
  Poor planting days, cut hay or do general farm work.
• 24th – 25th
  Plant late beets, potatoes, onions, carrots, and other root crops.
• 26th – 27th
  Poor days for planting. Kill plant pests, spray, fertilize, do general farm work.

 

[cyberiot]

The June calendar for southern Arizona, zone 9B, says:

Quick! Harvest everything before it fries! Hide inside looking at pictures of other people's gardens until October!

So. Four months of gardening memes . . .

 

[SammiP]

That's funny, mine says "you can still have frost at night, it isn't too late!" And also "Why is your cat eating the pumpkin seedlings when you aren't looking?" So I've moved them out of the house and they'll have to be sheltered at night for a week or so yet. Last frost date here is around June 10.

 

[seraphima]

Wow, SammiP, that's a late frost date! what zone are you in? We aren't having frosts any more, just contending with very cool temps.
Today my first half-dozen potatoes are up through the hilled soil and compost, the soup peas are germinating, and the fava beans too. Onion sets are up a good 10 inches, the garlic 18" and looking strappy. Chard and kale growing slowly. The sun finally came out today and temps now up to 54, so growth will start to pop.

 

[SammiP]

I'm in zone 5, just on the north slope of a valley, so a bit of microclimate. It also holds the heat when that settles in. Most of the province is past their frost date by a week or so already.

 

[seraphima]

Tonight I was out doing the Alaska gardening thing at 11pm; still light! I sheared off both the very big pots of thyme, an herb which I use a lot in cooking. The thyme is now drying on a flat, closely woven basket on top of the highboy. Usually I get 2 or 3 cuttings a year, enough for all my needs for the year, plus some to give away. Thyme is the queen of herbs for fish (salmon, halibut, tuna, etc.) and is also good in chicken dishes and stews.

 

[seraphima]

Out mowing today at a pleasant sunny 58 degrees, before a week or more of rain and highs around 52 - 56. SO glad I planted cold loving veggies - last time we had a really late spring it stayed cold all 'summer'; lived through it and learned!

 

[Cardinal]

My rhubarb, potatoes, tomatoes and onions are doing well.
Strawberries and asparagus are a big disappointment.
I really need to get my fig tree in the ground.

 

[slbmatt]

Have a question about my corn plants all plated the same day. About two months ago.
One is 10 foot tall, five are 6 foot tall and ten are at 4 feet tall. Planted 30 seed
Only had 16 come up but they were 15 year old seeds.

The question is will the Corn be safe to eat?

It is starting to make ears on most of the plants. I have never grown corn before.
No one else in the area has corn more than 2 to 3 foot tall.

 

[20Gauge]

Have a question about my corn plants all plated the same day. About two months ago.
One is 10 foot tall, five are 6 foot tall and ten are at 4 feet tall. Planted 30 seed
Only had 16 come up but they were 15 year old seeds.

The question is will the Corn be safe to eat?

It is starting to make ears on most of the plants. I have never grown corn before.
No one else in the area has corn more than 2 to 3 foot tall.

If yours is taller, then you are doing better than most in the area.