424 - June Garden Checklist: What to Do Now to Keep Things Thriving
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
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🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
June might feel like the honeymoon phase in the garden — everything’s green, lush, and thriving. But don’t let the beauty fool you — this is a critical time to stay proactive if you want a healthy, productive summer garden. 💪
In this episode, I’m sharing what to plant, prune, harvest, and watch for in June — plus a sneak peek at an upcoming live workshop that you won’t want to miss! 👀
📝 Here’s what we’ll cover:
🥬 What to do with bolting lettuce, spinach & other cool-season crops
🌱 Heat-loving crops to plant now (yes, it’s not too late!)
✂️ How and when to harvest herbs & prune basil for continuous growth
🌻 Flower & herb upkeep — deadheading, staking, and more
🐛 What pests to look out for (and what to do when you spot them)
💦 Watering tips for containers and raised beds
🔥 Why June is a great time to build soil health and how I use Organic REV all season long
📆 Coming June 17: A brand-new Summer Garden Workshop all about pest prevention, disease control, and how to grow stronger, more resilient plants 🌿✨
🎧 Tune in for practical tips to help your garden thrive in the summer heat — and get ready for even more support in the workshop later this month!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to June. I consider this the honeymoon period in the garden. All the hard work of |
| 0:07.1 | planting is done, the crops have started to settle in and grow, and we've even gotten some harvest. |
| 0:14.4 | But while our gardens will often look content and lush and happy, this is not the time to get lazy. |
| 0:24.0 | While June is not as demanding as some of the other months, there's still work to be done, work that can help keep our gardens healthy and |
| 0:30.7 | productive. So whether you are listening in your garden or you're on the go or doing something else, |
| 0:36.1 | just sit back and relax and let's talk about |
| 0:38.6 | some of the tasks that you can be doing and things to watch out for in your June garden. |
| 0:45.2 | Welcome to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill and I'm so glad you're here. In this podcast, |
| 0:50.6 | you'll find easy to understand conversations about how to grow your own food. |
| 0:55.9 | As a first-time gardener, myself 11 years ago, I remember what it's like to feel overwhelmed. |
| 1:01.7 | So I want to make gardening so doable for you that you'll find yourself falling in love with gardening just like I did. |
| 1:09.2 | Let's dig in. |
| 1:14.4 | The first thing I want us to look at is how are our cool season crops doing? |
| 1:20.4 | Now this, of course, will depend on where you're growing. If you are in the furthest of the |
| 1:25.2 | south, you're probably long past this. |
| 1:31.2 | I know most of my cool season crops have already started to bolt and suffer. |
| 1:36.1 | And if you're further to the north, you may be able to grow cool season crops all year. |
| 1:46.7 | But for many of us, we will start to see these signs of especially our leafy greens starting to struggle. Keep an eye out for bolting lettuce, |
| 1:53.3 | bolting cilantro, bolting spinach. And in some of these cases, lettuce in particular, you're going to start seeing some bitterness coming from those leaves. Now here are some things that you want to |
| 1:58.3 | keep an eye out for, especially with lettuce. |
| 2:04.7 | When the temperatures start to climb, when the day length starts to get longer, |
| 2:10.4 | if you start to notice that your lettuce, which is typically pretty compact and maybe grows wide, |
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