When it comes to the question of what to plant in June, there are a wide range of options. With its long, warm days and extra hours of sunshine, June is a busy time in the middle of the gardening year. Now is the time to plant flowers and plants that you sown indoors in the spring and to harvest and reseed previous vegetable crops to extend the harvest season until fall. You can also create colorful arrangements with hanging baskets and pots.
What plants can be planted in June?
Now that the ground has finally warmed and there is no longer any threat of frost even in cooler areas, you can plant out many young seedlings that were sown indoors in late winter or early spring. This includes vegetable and salad plants, but also many bedding plants and more delicate flowers. This month is also great for direct sowing outdoors. Here you can find some ideas.
June is the time to make sure you are planting for the coming fall and winter while harvesting the produce of previous plantings. This month can be used to re-sow vegetables such as carrots, beans, beets, spinach, cauliflower and all lettuce plants to extend the harvest season and ensure a fresh harvest well into autumn. This is especially important if you have a small vegetable garden to make the most of the space available.
If you started earlier in the year with theGrowing strawberriesOnce started, they should start bearing fruit as early as June, so continue to pick regularly to encourage fruiting.
Plant white cabbage in June
Head cabbage varieties can provide cabbage all year round and are easy to care for. As part of your vegetable garden, space them 40cm apart and 30cm between rows. Be careful not to plant cabbage in the same spot where you previously grew it - or other types of cabbage.
Grow white cabbage in very firm soil, with plenty of old manure or compost. Catch cabbage white butterflies and caterpillars and protect the plants with nets. Also, try to keep pests away from your cabbage plants by growing companion plants.
Growing radishes for the summer harvest
Now that the frost has finally passed and the ground has warmed up, you can sow radish seeds directly into the ground. With their crisp taste and strong aroma, radishes are a wonderful addition to summer salads.
Growing radishes is easy to learn, and some varieties can be harvested just a few weeks after sowing.
List of vegetables to plant in June:
- Peas
- Kohl
- Leek
- More
- carrots
- Parsnips
- radish
- Rote Beth
Which salads to plant in June?
If you are growing lettuces in your greenhouse, you should provide shade during the hottest days to ensure aBurning the plantsto prevent. Also ensure good ventilation of the greenhouse by opening vents and doors.
Chicory
Chicory is a versatile salad whose leaves can be eaten cooked or raw. It has wonderfully crunchy and slightly bitter leaves that have a distinctive taste.
For example, in June you can sow red chicory seeds outdoors, directly into well-prepared, well-drained soil in a sunny location. Sow seeds 1.5cm deep and scatter or plant in rows 30cm apart, thinning the seedlings as they grow.
The delicious salad should be ready to harvest from late summer to autumn.
Garden salad
Freshly picked lettuce leaves are so much tastier than store-bought versions that it's worth looking into growing lettuce.
You can sow lettuce directly in your vegetable garden or in raised beds outdoors in June. In fact, lettuce can be sown from mid-spring and throughout the summer, so with appropriate planning and successive sowing, you can enjoy the nutritious and tasty lettuce leaves almost all year round.
Depending on the variety, you need to space the plants 6 to 18 cm apart.
Lettuce is also ideal when thinking about ideas for a container vegetable garden.
For a continuous harvest, experts recommend that you pick the outer leaves and let the inner ones grow.
List of salads to plant in June:
- Endivie
- Chicory
- cress
- Salad varieties like 'Lollo'
- Spinach
- Radicchio
- Romansalat
- Sugarloaf Mountain
What flowers to plant in June?
In June the flowers bloom in abundance. Now it is also time to plant the summer flowers that were sown in the house in spring, such as geraniums, begonias and lobelias, in their final place and integrate them into the beds.
In June we also start sowing the biennials for next spring, which need time to become established.
Red foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)
Foxgloves are classic country house garden plantsMagnet for pollinatorsand wonderful cut flowers.
'Sutton's Apricot' is a beautiful, soft pink foxglove that blooms at the same time as peonies and looks beautiful alongside them. Growing foxgloves is easy to learn, and the tiny, dust-shaped seeds can be sown directly into a seedbed in June. Thin to 30 cm in three to four weeks and transplant to the flowering location in early autumn.
Goldlack (Erysimum cheiri)
The garden gold lacquer comes in the most wonderfully rich colors and with one of the best scents ever.
'Winter Orchid' is a brilliant short-lived perennial variety. The flowers appear a coppery orange and turn purple as they age.
Because it blooms from spring through summer, the gold lacquer is often the first to be in full bloom along with the hellebore and daphne.
Annual silver leaf (Lunaria annua)
The silverleaf variety 'Chedglow' is an unusual color form of the plant that has chocolate-colored leaves instead of green leaves and pods.
The seed pods of Silverleaf resemble silvery moons and those of 'Chedglow' are purple in color and offer fantastic architectural value for winter or for use in dried flower arrangements.
If you are short on space, you can plant these plants in pots in a sheltered spot until fall and then move them to their final location.
List of flowers to plant in June:
- thimble
- Fuchsien
- daisy
- Geraniums
- Goldlack
- Silberblatt
- Sunflowers
- Stockrosen
- Forget-me-nots
