When I first started gardening a few years back I quickly learned that it was not as simple as putting seeds or transplants in the soil. There is a rhythm to gardening, a time for everything, a time for harvest and reseeding, and a time for turning down the beds.
During the months of June and July gardeners are insanely busy with harvesting the early spring plantings and putting in our fall crops, and impatiently waiting for our more luxurious veggies to finish growing such as the peppers, cucumbers, zucchini, and pole beans.
Looking at my planter boxes this morning, I got a real sense of satisfaction knowing that we are growing our own food, and have for the past couple months been eating salads and greens every day from our greenie box filled with butter lettuce, spinach, chard, and sweat peas.
Here is a photo of the boxes at this morning around 6:30am, they are exploding with growth!
So what can be harvested in the month of June? I'm so glad you asked - lets take a look!
The photo above is my green bed which is currently stuffed with chard, spinach, butter lettuce, and sweet peas, all of which are good for eating right out of the soil. When picking these you don't remove the plant, you simply snip off your leaves for your salad or dish and allow new ones to grow. One thing to take note of with spinach, it will go to seed if the weather gets hot so once you start seeing those flowering heads appear, harvest all of your spinach for the freezer and then replant (you will have another row in about a month), this can be done in the greater Vancouver area until about October. I am not certain if you can see it but there is a new row of lettuce coming in - as we had a bit of no grow incident with my Amish Deer Tongue Lettuce.
Herbs, fruits, and veggies that can be harvested in June
JUNE:
- Broad Beans
- Strawberries
- Asparagus
- Beetroot (if you planted in March)
- Broccoli
- Carrots (Plant in March)
- Lettuce
- Onions
- Peas
- Potatoes (Plant in March)
- Radishes
- Rhubarb
- Spinach
- Spring Onions (Plant in March)
- Swiss Chard
- Turnips
- Cauliflower
- Cherries
- Fennel
- Garlic (Planted the previous September)
- Glove Artichokes (These need a full calendar year in the ground)
- Gooseberries
- Kohl Rabi
What can be planted in June from starters? (This will be your late summer and early fall harvest)
- Tomatoes
- Brussels Sprouts and Cabbages (September harvest)
- Cauliflowers (September/October Harvest)
- Celeriac
- Celery
- Chicory
- Chilies and Sweet Peppers
- Pumpkins and Squashes
- Cucumbers
- Endive
- French beans and runner beans
- Kale
- Leeks
- Sweet potatoes
- Sweet Corn
What can be planted from seed in June (Again, these will be your late summer, and early/mid fall harvests)
- Beetroot
- Broccoli
- Carrots
- Chicory
- Summer Squash
- Peas
- Cucumbers
- Endive
- Lettuce
- Chinese Greens
- Turnips
- French beans
- Herbs
- Kale
- Kohl Rabi
- Leaf Veggies
- Radishes
- Runner Beans
- Spring onions
So there you have it! We are now experts in the month of June :-) To close out the post, here are a few more photos of the garden in June.
The above picture is one of the hot beds (hence the giant artichokes), in addition we have calendula (medicinal herb), peppers, bush beans, nasturtium, and climbing beans.
The tomato bed is on the left, we also have basil and dill growing with them. To the right is the French bean box with a few more pepper plants and runner beans in the back.
Hope you enjoyed reading, I'll try to keep up and put in a month by month guide for planting/harvesting.
Happy Monday!
- Nicey
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