Vegetable, Herb & Fruit
Garden Tasks - June

• Transplant heat loving plants like eggplants, melons, okra, peppers, squash, tomatoes, as well as late crops cabbage, cauliflower, celery and heat tolerant - slow bolting lettuce varieties.
• Seed directly into the garden Asian Greens (usually in the mustard family), beans (bush or pole), corn, cucumbers, New Zealand spinach (heat tolerant spinach substitute), parsnips, peas, pumpkin, radishes and squash.
• Start seedlings or sow directly in the ground beginning in the middle of the month for early fall crops like beets, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, endive & radicchio, green onions, kohlrabi, rutabagas, Swiss chard and turnips.
• Plant out tender herbs like sweet marjoram, dill, basil and cilantro as well as other herbs like chives, oregano, parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.
• Thin apple trees, Asian and European pears if necessary (if fruit have been plentiful but small). Don't thin if your tree is in a light year. Thin instead in next years heavy year to even bearing out between years.