June Garden Calendar 2022
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Collapse ▲Plants in Flower
| Southern Magnolia | Yucca | Coreopsis |
| Smoketree | Hypericum | Poppy |
| Rosebay Rhododendron | Trumpet Creeper | Canna |
| Oakleaf Hydrangea | Phlox | Red Hot Poker |
| Gardenia | Butterfly Weed | Rose-of-Sharon |
| Rose | Daylily | summer annuals |
| Summer Spirea | Balloon Flower | |
| Florist Hydrangea | Stokesia |
 Figure 1: Stokes aster (Stokesia laevis) |
 Figure 2: Smoke tree (Continus coggygrig) |
 Figure 3: Butterfly weed with Monarch caterpillar |
 Figure 4: Oakleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia) |
Fertilizing
- Fertilize or side-dress your vegetables as needed
Planting
- Start brussel sprouts and collards for transplanting into the garden in mid-July
- Plant beans, lima beans, southern peas, pepper, sweet potato, pumpkin, and tomato
Pruning
- Prune narrow leaf evergreens like juniper and arborvitae
- Prune the bigleaf or florist hydrangea when the flowers fade
- Trim hedges as needed
- Remove water sprouts or suckers on any fruit trees, crape myrtles, etc.
- Dead-head faded flowers of phlox, shasta daisy, and daylily to promote a second flowering
- Trim foliage of your spring flowering bulbs (once they turn yellow/brown and wilt)
- Prune out dieback on hybrid rhododendron, azalea, mountain laurel, and blueberry
- Pinch chrysanthemums 1-2 inches every month to encourage branching – last pinch around July 4th
Spraying
(Use pesticides sparingly and spray only when needed! Always read and follow ALL label directions!)
- Monitor landscape plants for pests: arborvitae (bagworm), boxwood (leaf miner), crape myrtle (aphids), hemlock (spider mites), and pyracantha (lace bugs).
- Spray for Japanese beetles as needed
- Monitor vegetables for pests: cucumber (cucumber beetle), squash (squash borers and aphids), tomato and eggplant (flea beetle), broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower (worms).
- Keep spraying your tree fruits and bunch grapes with a pest control program.
- Check your asparagus plants for the asparagus beetle and spray with the recommended insecticide if beetles are observed
- Continue with rose spray program
- Watch for dark brown spots on your tomato leaves. If observed, spray with a fungicide for early blight.
- Spray herbicides on the following woody weeds: poison ivy, honeysuckle, and kudzu.
Lawn Care
- Start zoysia this month or continue fertilizing established zoysia lawn this month
- Do NOT fertilize tall fescue and bluegrass now
Propagation
- Late June is the ideal time to take semi-hardwood cuttings
- Azaleas, cotoneaster, camellia, holly, pieris, red-tip photinia and rhododendron cuttings should be taken in June or July
Specific Chores
- Build a cold frame for rooting your shrub cuttings
- Renovate your strawberry bed after the berry harvest is completed
- Water your favorite plants during periods of dry weather
- Water early in the morning
- Watering late in the day encourages plant disease growth BUT if you need to water, WATER! Just try not to get the leaves wet!
- Vegetable gardens need 1 inch of water per week
- Harvest crops on a regular basis to keep plants producing