Can you still plant vegetables in the summer? Is June too late to plant a garden? Well, no, it isn’t too late, and yes, you can still start your vegetable garden in the summer. Heat-loving plants enjoy this time of the year, and if you spent Spring on other things, worry not: you can still put vegetable seeds into the ground (or pot) that will thrive in the toasty summer heat.
While it’s ideal to do the prep work and follow planting guidelines for your zone, gardening is, most of all, an experiment. There’s no hard and fast rule, and there’s no crime in trying. We hesitate because each plant takes up a lot of effort in the beginning, and we don’t want to kill something that we spent a lot of time on.
I used to be super hesitant about gardening itself, and about trying out various things with plants. I gave myself a hard time when plants died, and even gave up on gardening a few times. But I’ve since learnt that plants are quite simple; they need the right amounts of sunlight, water and nutrients. And this “right amount” can be learnt with practice and experience. Keep planting, repotting, and learning, and one day, you will understand what works, and why. And it will all have been worth it.
Which Vegetable Seeds Can I Sow in June?
Ok, enough generic pep talk. Let’s get down to the details. Depending on which zone you’re in, you can try starting with tomato and eggplant, or try growing any of these vegetables from seed:
1 // Beans
2 // Beets
3 // Carrots
4 // Chard
5 // Eggplant
6 // Lettuce
7 // Pepper
8 // Pumpkin
9 // Summer Squash
10 // Tomato
Try the sampler seed pack with for smaller amounts of seeds to begin with.
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Tips for a Thriving June Garden
- When you’re procuring seeds, whether from a neighbor or from a seed company, make sure they are non-GMO seeds.
- Watch this video for quick tips on seed germination:
- Set out seeds in different viable locations, if possible. Perhaps one location has less Sun than the other? Perhaps less heat? When it’s late in the planting season, you can increase the odds of successful germination and growth by using different locations.
- Tomato, beans, pepper and eggplant can be planted even by the end of June – just in time for the sizzling July summer heat spike.
- For leafy vegetables such as lettuce, kale, sow seeds every few weeks so you get an unbroken harvest through the summer.
- Keep a careful eye on your plants’ water requirements. It’s summer, after all!
Remember, before you despair at unsuccessful germinations and dead plantlings: failure is the road to success, and this is truer for gardeners than anyone else. Just learn from every experience, and get to know the plants as well as you can.
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