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Garden Notes: June 2023

Wednesday, June 28, 2023 0:01

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Rainfall

11th: 0.26″
12th: 4.32″
15th: 0.03″
19th: 0.53″
20th: 3.22″
21st: 0.78″
22nd: 0.48″
25th: 0.07″
Total so far: 9.69 inches

Temperature

range of nighttime lows: 53 to 67°F (12 to 19.4°C)
range of daytime highs: 66 to 87°F (19 to 30.5°C)

Weather Notes

Typical June temperatures but more rain than usual.

Garden Notes

June is an in-between month. The cool weather crops peter out about mid-month, but the summer veggies aren’t quite ready to harvest yet. I think the greenhouse will be the remedy for this. If I get my summer veggies started about a month earlier than direct sowing, we’ll be enjoying the produce as the spring crops go to seed.

Of fruit, we’re still getting a few strawberries every couple of days and the raspberries are producing.

strawberries and raspberries

Last year we got quite a few mulberries from our young tree, but this year it produced very few berries and those few disappeared. Likely eaten by birds. I had hoped they’d fill the gap between strawberries (mostly May) and blueberries (usually July). Instead, we got a happy surprise of early blueberries.

Blueberries.

They’re plump and sweet and the bushes are loaded. Hopefully, we’ll get more than the birds this year!

Figs are our August fruit harvest, but for the past couple of years we’ve lost some fig trees.

Dead fig tree behind the barn.

Except for this one branch!

This fall, Dan will cut back the dead part and we’ll nurture the living branch. We’ll also transplant some of the saplings. This is the second fig tree we’ve lost in the past two years, and we don’t want to lose any more.

Our remaining fig tree is producing well.

I have no idea how old these trees are. I discovered them our first year here, when I was trimming back the wildly overgrown backyard. Hopefully, we can get some new trees going for future harvests.

Tomatoes are beginning to ripen.

Corn is shooting up and the buckwheat is going to seed.

Swiss chard

Marigolds

Digging the first of the potatoes.

Biggest pest

June beetles

The June beetles have taken over my raspberry plants and lone table grape vine. Last year, neem worked. This year, I spray, they fly away, and come back with a vengence.

Parting shot

Baby praying mantis. It’s about an inch long!

How is everyone else’s garden growing? Well, I hope!

Garden Notes: June 2023 © June 2023

by Leigh at http://www.5acresandadream.com

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