PBOG’s Garden To-Do List for June
- Keep up with weeding, lifting foliage of perennials to scrape small weeds
- Plant final perennials, annuals, vegetables, shrubs, and trees by the end of the month
- Follow summer watering instructions
- Deadhead bulbs and early spring perennials as they fade
- Fertilize bulbs to ensure good repeat bloom next year
- Plan next fall’s bulb order
- List plants to divide or add in fall in your garden beds
- Change spring containers to a summer look and remember to water the new arrangements
- Mulch bare soil areas to retain moisture and suppress weeds
- Touch-up rose and hydrangea pruning done previously if there are any canes that didn’t leaf out well or developing new canes that are crossing in the interior of the roses
- Leaf tier activity on hydrangea tips (with a pair of leaves stitched together by this insect pest) can simply be cut off and discarded
- Finish planting vegetable gardens and mulch with sterilized straw or salt marsh hay to retain moisture and suppress weeds
- Remember to harvest herbs and vegetables as they mature
- Pinch tall asters, Joe Pye weed and rudbeckias to control sprawl later