Garden Now -- June is Not Too Late to Start a Garden

If you planted a garden in the early spring, June is an easy-going gardening month. It's time to harvest. If you didn't do it last month, it's time to fertilize. It's also a good time to plant seeds or put in transplants. If you didn't get started in the spring, or need to add to your garden, it's not too late.

Summer vegetables can be planted now including: corn, cucumbers, beans, leaf lettuce, okra, peppers, pumpkins, New Zealand spinach, summer and winter squash, and melons.

The year-round standards, such as beets, carrots, Swiss chard, radishes, and turnips can also go in. Eggplant, tomatoes, and peppers will do well and grow rapidly when put in as transplants this month.

Don't wait. It's not too late. Get going now.

This week we'll be planting tomatoes peppers beans and okra.

Remember, if we can do it, so can you. 

Time to Plant Seeds Indoors and Out

It's time to plant seeds for your fall garden. Actually, any of the summer or fall crops can be planted now in our Southern California garden.

Today we're seeding kale, cabbage, broccoli,  and cauliflower indoors. And seeding okra, squash, carrots, beets, chard, collards, rutabagas, onions, cucumbers, nasturtiums, and some herbs. Lettuce is a good fall crop to start directly in the garden now.


Here is a mix we are planting:


 Lettuce, Looseleaf Blend--five favorites in one pack. 
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Any of the summer heat-lovers (cukes, squash, peppers, tomatoes, etc.) can be planted now as either direct seed (early varieties) or transplants. Seeds that typically take a long time to germinate in the spring come up faster now in the summer heat. Many of the cole vegetables (cabbage, broccoli, etc.) taste better after a light frost--so the plan is to start them now in the warmth, let them mature in the cool of the fall and be ready for harvest just after the first frost.