it is june and things are really starting to heat up in my zone 6a ohio garden today i'm sharing
with you the seeds that i am sewing in june now what you are able to sew in june is going to
depend a little bit on your specific frost date if you are planning on sowing heat loving crops
that are frost tender you just need to make sure that you have enough time before your first fall
frost in order for things to come to maturity my estimated first fall frost date here is october
6th so planting today on i think it's june 11th i've got about 107 days give or take i'm not sure
if my math is right for things to mature before that frost comes so i'm just going to basically
want to make sure that anything that i'm planting today is going to mature within a 100 day window
which for the most part other than a few very very long season winter squash and pumpkins and a few
um like dent or flint or flower corns most everything can reach maturity in that time on the
other end of things is considering your typical summer weather so here by about the middle of
june all through july all through august halfway through september we tend to be very very warm
very humid and get less rainfall than we would typically get in the spring or the fall so at
this time of year i'm pretty much done with anything i would qualify as a cool season
crop i'm not doing any more carrots or lettuce or radishes anything like that if you live in
a zone six area that stays a little bit cooler through the summers you can certainly get away
with sewing some of those things into june i do not i typically wait and plant them late summer
for a full garden instead and that works really well for me here so on to what i do plant in june
in the beginning of this month i will direct sow things like sweet corn
and shorter season popcorn flint corns flour dent corns ornamental corns anything that's
kind of under that 105 day maturity range i also direct sow or transplant
winter squash pumpkins gourds any of the melons watermelons cantaloupes
gallia honeydew anything in that melon class as well as my ornamental castor beans i typically
also transplant sweet potatoes and peanuts if i didn't get them planted in late may
early to mid-june is a time i take to transplant any of my tomatoes
tomatillos eggplants peppers that again i didn't get planted in mid to late may
and the good news is there is still a whole lot of stuff that can be planted pretty much
the entire month of june here all the beans so bush beans pole beans runner beans edamame i will
typically succession plant these types of things all through the month of june cowpeas or southern
peas are the same way they love the heat and can be planted anytime during the month of june direct
sewn flowers like your wildflower mixes cosmos nasturtium amaranthus borage and morning glories
and i'm also planting a lot of my hot season cover crops as my cool season crops come out so those
are things like buckwheat sorghum sudan grass sunflowers sun hemp and cow peas the entire month
of june i also have the opportunity to direct sow or transplant my summer squash and zucchini
i like to do succession plantings of that as well cucumbers okra which really loves the heat and
basil i can also continue to plant annual flowers like sunflowers marigolds zinnias and celosia now
obviously you'll get blooms a lot faster if you're planting those from transplant but i do
still have time to plant those from seed as well so that pretty much wraps up what i am planting
during the month of june be sure to drop a line in the comments below and let me know what you're
planting in your garden this month and be sure to subscribe to my channel for more updates on
what i plan each month in my zone 6a ohio garden thanks for watching and i'll see you next time