Get your garden season-ready with these tips from the landscape and horticulture specialists at USU Extension. For more tips, visit Utah State University Gardeners’ Almanac Monthly Gardening Checklists.
June Gardening Checklist
- Prune tomatoes to open the canopy of the plant.
- Consider drip irrigation in the garden to conserve water with either tape or PVC pipe.
- Prune spring flowering shrubs (those that bloom before June) after they have bloomed to encourage new flower buds for next season.
- Deadhead (cut off) spent blossoms of perennial and annual flowers.
- Thin the fruit of apples, peaches, and apricots to approximately one fruit every 5-6 inches.
- Apply a second application of pre-emergent herbicides in late May to early June to control annual weeds in the lawn such as crabgrass and spurge.
- Remember that turfgrass only needs 1 to 1 ½ inches of irrigation per week.Â
Save this April Garden Checklist graphic to check off each task in your own garden:
Featured Image Courtesy of Anne Nygard via Unsplash.
