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June Tips

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Monthly tips are categorized by To-Dos, What to Plant, or Pests and Diseases. Scroll through the list to see items in each category. Also, refer to our list of tips useful for any month.

To-Dos: June

Bee Swarms 
Broccoli - Multiple Harvests 
Citrus Fertilizing 
Composting 
Container Color Choice 
Deadheading 
Direct Seeding 
Drip Irrigation 
Drought Tip - Irrigate Efficiently 
Drought Tip - Laundry to Landscape Irrigation 
Drought Tip - Lawns 
Drought Tip - No Fertilizer 
Drought Tips - Vegetable Gardening 
Eliminating Perennial Weeds 
Encouraging Dahlia Blooms 
Fertilizing Ornamentals During Drought 
Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Without a Garden! 
Fruit Thinning 
Garden Planning in a Drought 
Garlic Harvesting 
Geranium Care 
Grass Cycling 
Irrigate in Circles and Spirals 
June Drop 
Keep Foliage after Bloom Fade 
Lady Beetle 
Lawn Care 
Mulch to Conserve Water 
Pinch Your Basil 
Pinching Flowers and Herbs 
Prevent Fruit Tree Sun Burn 
Protect Native Bees 
Soil Moisture Test 
Soil Solarization 
Summer Vegetables 
Support Your Vegetables 
Testing Soil Moisture Depth 
Tomato Bottom Scarring 
Tomato Staking 
Tomato Suckers 
Transplanting Vegetables 
Tree Suckers and Waterspouts 
Vegetable Garden Check-In 
Water Budgeting 
Water the Roots, Not the Plants 
Watering Hydrophobic Soil 
Weed Spotlight - Bindweed 
Weed Spotlight - Filaree 
Weed Spotlight - Spotted Spurge 
Worm Composting 

Pests and Diseases: June

Ant Control 
Armored Scale Control 
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug 
Carpenter Bees 
Codling Moth 
Cottony Cushion Scale 
Earwigs 
Eugenia Psyllid 
Fire Blight 
Fungus Gnats 
Fusarium Wilt 
Giant Whiteflies 
Gophers 
Identifying Beneficial Insects 
Rose Care 
Spider Mites 
Spotted Wing Drosophila 
Squirrel Control 
Sudden Oak Death 
Tick Information 
Today’s Grubs Are Tomorrow’s Beetles 
Tomato Hornworm 
Tomato Russet Mite 
Verticillium Wilt 
White Butterflies and Green Caterpillars 
Whiteflies 

What to Plant: June

Asian Vegetables 
Attracting Bees 
Chrysanthemums 
Don't Plant an Invasive Plant 
Fresh Cut Flowers from Your Garden 
Growing Peppers 
High Yield Vegetables 
Kale 
Nematode Control with Marigolds 
Plants to Attract Butterflies 
Selecting Seeds 
Stone Fruit Hybrids 
Thyme 
Tomatillo (Physalis philadelphica) 
Vegetable Planting Chart