10 Crops to Direct Sow in June, Wherever You Live!

Pam here, Tomatoes, Peppers, Zucchini, yellow squash, onion, spinach, carrot, radish, herbs, flowers,

I paused this video at the five minute mark and ran out and planted cucumbers next to my tomatoes in the rain! Also, I rarely "prune" any of my plants. If I want more yield I just plant a few more plants.

What I like most about your videos. You are never insulting to your viewers like so many so called experts. I don’t like to be called an idiot by a YouTuber that has some far fetched idea of gardening that doesn’t work for me. You share information in detail, with explanation. You’re not promoting nonsense products as you talk about gardening. You are honest in assessments of everything garden related. That deserves respect. Now, as for me, I’m older than dirt and I’ve been gardening for a lifetime, but I never proclaim to know everything, in fact I know very little and experiment every year. With that said, every time I watch your videos I seem to learn something or at least be reminded of why I do certain things. I appreciate all of your efforts to put these videos out and hope you continue for a long time to come. Thank You

I harvested my first tomatoe, singular, of the season just yesterday. Man was it awesome.

Planted 8 butternut squash last year got 2 wheelbarrow full of squash

Leaf miners are easy to take care of before they become a big issue. Take your thumb and forefinger and simple pinch around the trails until you feel a "pop"😊

This was a very encouraging video. We just bought our new homestead, and just moved in over Labor Day weekend. We had to clear the land, till a garden plot, order seeds etc, and I am just now (mid June) finally able to start some things. I have a short growing season so I know it will be a tight squeeze, but I am hoping I can get some food out of the garden despite planting in June. I can’t afford starts so I generally grow from seeds.

Plant more Summer squash, as soon as squash starts flowering. Cucumbers under tomatoes, basil, rosemary, okra and oregano. Plant corn now in blocks to encourage successful pollination.

I started cuccumbers and cantelope the last two weeks of May. I am in Abruzzo Italy, EU zone 9 on the line with zone 8. I am also growing some green bell peppies and heirloom chickory. I also just split my basil into four plants. We are going to fall grow zucchini, potatoes and fennel. I am rehabbing my deceased father-in-law's farm and it is a lot of work but I think it is going to be very rewarding. Thats for the info .

I have a couple catnip plants in a perennial bed that are absolutely covered in hover flies and parasitic wasps all summer. I am just getting to planting out the summer garden as we had a frost last week. Fingers crossed we are done now.

I planted my squash in July last year. The vine borer activity is almost gone by them. I had a few eggs laid for a couple of weeks but that was it until... later in the early fall. I missed one and it took out two plants but I had already had plenty to harvest. In the past, I had none. I'm in Fort Worth Texas. Check out when your vine borer activity is and plant around it if you can.

We are aquaponics of cucumber, tomatoes,basil,mint, spinach, garlic, bunch onions: but squash, bean,corn, carrots, radishes peppers: other root veggies on ground. Our back gardening is busy: glad we don't have an HOA committee command center.

Thanks. Here in the Phoenix area, the only items in that list which can be planted here in June are basil, cantaloupes, and Armenian cucumbers (a melon). Everything else had to be planted long ago. It's even too late to plant okra here. Sweet potatoes can still be planted here though. However my summer squash, peppers, and tomatoes are still producing, and the watermelons are flowering. My tomatoes produced a little all winter, and the peppers produced in January but began producing again in late March. And almost everything must have been shaded a couple of weeks ago. It will be 110+ degrees later this week.

Brian showed in the episode photos of cucumbers and squash. If you really want to produce cucumbers, armenians, zucchini, summer squash, winter squash, scallop gourds, gourds, ... incorporate them with bean and (sugar) pea vines. Get the tallest, biggest, circular tomato plant metal teepee and plant in the surrounding soil. Beans will provide the extra nitrogen, while the leafy vine fruits will provide needed shade in upcoming summer heat, heat domes, and drought situations. This is a modern version of the indigenous population with corn, squash, and beans. The tomato metal teepee replaces the corn in this model. The taller and bigger the teepee is, the greater the plant and vining fruit production can happen. If you make your own metal teepee then you have no limits in the height and conical perimeter size you can design. Horse fencing, with metal wire clippers, can make a tall and large inclining pyramidal structure that can hold up to the most intense concentrated planting density. Otherwise, if you prefer, you can make HUGE tunnel fencing from horse fencing, and stake out in 1st row, bend, stake down in the 2nd row. You then have an entire canopy, whereby you can plant big vines on the outside, while having beans and (sugar) peas growing on the insides of the tunnel. The horse fencing can handle any weight, including melons, pumpkins, and large gourds. If you use the tunnel method of tomatoes, you can plant tomatoes on both sides of the fencing, and allow them to grow upward and overhead, with tomato clips that hang from the horse fencing grid wires. In this you have maximized height, but also double planted in each row. This is advantageous ... as when you are irrigating, you have only 1 irrigation (and fertilizer) line feeding both planting rows.

Perfect timing! I just finished three 3 x5, 17 inch high metal garden beds. Lots of work and money. I planted tomato plants and assortment of basil in them. So now that im completely wiped out from the whole process. You have just motivated me to add MORE! Thanks 😊 ❤ 🌼 Sylvia

June 3rd & I'm so happy listening to your knowledge. I had to switch to Large Metal Containers to save my knees. Thank you for "Companion Planting" and would like your book. I've been growing for many years but now adapting changes with weather changes & physical abilities.

Per your suggestion, I started my green beans in TP and paper towel rolls 4 weeks ahead of planting, and it worked GREAT!

I didn’t know you wrote a book until I started following Chad that you mentioned. He talked about your book. I bought it and it’s helped a lot!!

Like many other gardeners, Aphids are the things I hate the most in the garden and I cannot get rid of. I do not like to spray so I am going to pick up so plants to bring in the beneficial insects to the garden. Thank you for this straight forward and informative video!

Gardening in West Africa, challenging enough, (originally from NJ) but this year a friend gave us a puppy 🙄😐😔 managed to get a few tomatoes before the chaos began... Going to replant in a separate space some corn, chilies, bnuts, (fingers crossed for last cocoa tree seedling) and maybe try some tomatoes before the rainy season sets in(July August?) definitely now a cat person...lol ty for the tips, longbeans are my faves...💚💚💚💚