For Zone 4 gardeners, this June Garden Chores list will keep your garden thriving. Remember, timing can vary, so check with a local expert for your area’s specific needs. Let’s get those green thumbs busy!
📝 General To Do
Review your gardening budget and note what you’ve bought. Keep a garden journal with bloom times, new plant details, overcrowded areas, fertilizers used, and insecticides/herbicides effectiveness. Record wildlife sightings and take garden photos.
📅 Daily
Check moisture in pots, window boxes, hanging baskets, and tubs. For roses, mist every three days starting late June, cut off spent blooms, and pick up fallen leaves.
📆 Weekly
Water flower, lawn, and vegetable beds as needed. Weed flower and vegetable beds.
🐦 Wildlife
Feed birds sunflower seeds.
🌸 June Garden Chores For Perennials, Annuals, And Bulbs
Check iris for borers and treat. Treat other iris problems. Check garden beds for non-returning flowers. Columbines-remove infected leaves. Treat bugs in the perennial border using this guide. Pinch leggy annuals and perennials. Phlox-apply black spot preventer. Deadhead annuals, bulbs, and perennials.
🌹 Roses
Check roses for insects and treat. Dust roses for black spots.
🌳 June Chores For Trees And Shrubs
Continue treating insects as described in the May Garden Chores. Prune trees with crossed or diseased branches. Do not shape trees at this time. Never prune your oak trees in June.
🏡 June Chores For The Lawn
Mow. Check for sod worms, and rake before mowing (to bring up crabgrass seed.)
🍓 Fruit
Remove Blackberry suckers that grow between rows. Cut off the tips of Blackberry canes when they reach 30 to 36 inches-forces branching. Continue to remove flowers and runners from new strawberries.
🥕 June Chores For The Vegetable Garden
- ✅ Plant tomatoes, peppers, squash, cucumbers and beans now if they are not in yet.
- ✅ Sow a second row of lettuce, radishes and beans every two to three weeks for a steady harvest.
- ✅ Thin carrots, beets and radishes so each one has room to grow.
- ✅ Stake or cage tomatoes before they sprawl.
- ✅ Pick peas, radishes and early lettuce often; picking keeps them producing.
- ✅ Side-dress heavy feeders like tomatoes and squash with compost or a balanced fertilizer when they start to flower.
💧 Watering The Right Way
Most gardens need about one inch of water a week, from rain plus watering. Water deeply in the morning so leaves dry before evening, which helps prevent disease. Push a finger two inches into the soil; if it is dry, water. Containers and hanging baskets dry out much faster and may need water every day in hot spells.
🍂 Mulch Now, Weed Less Later
Spread two to three inches of mulch (shredded leaves, straw or wood chips) around plants once the soil has warmed. It holds moisture, keeps roots cool and blocks most weeds. Keep it a few inches away from stems and tree trunks.
🌼 Feed Containers And Baskets
Potted flowers use up their nutrients fast. Feed containers and hanging baskets with a liquid fertilizer every two weeks through summer for steady blooms.
❓ Questions People Ask
When Should I Start Planting In Zone 4?
Plant after your last frost date, not just when days warm up. In Zone 4 the last frost usually passes in mid to late May, so early June is a safe time for bedding plants and warm-season vegetables like tomatoes, peppers, squash and beans.
How Often Should I Water My Garden In June?
Water your garden as needed, typically weekly, depending on rainfall and soil moisture.
What Should I Do If I Find Pests In My Garden?
Identify the pests using a guide and treat accordingly.
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