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From YouTube: Garden Chores - June
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Keeping up with the seasons in your garden can sometimes be tricky. When do you plant for Spring? When do you harvest your vegetables? How do you keep those critters out of your garden? Learn to improve your green thumb with the answers to those and much more.
Join Master Gardener Linda Blue of the North Carolina Office of Cooperative Extension for need-to-know gardening tips and chores for the month of June. For more information you can call the office of Cooperative Extension at (828) 255-5522.
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If
you're,
maintaining,
landscape
and
garden
areas,
the
month
of
June
is
certainly
a
busy
time
in
the
landscape.
Probably
the
first
thing
you're
going
to
be
keeping
up
with
is
just
keeping
that
grass
mowed.
Now,
if
you're
growing
cool
season
grass,
as
most
of
us,
are
here
in
Western,
North
Carolina,
that
is
fescue
and
bluegrass,
you
want
to
keep
your
mowing
height
set
at
about
3
inches.
Another
important
thing
is
keeping
the
grass
mowed
frequently
enough,
so
that
you're
not
removing
more
than
about
a
third
of
the
blade
at
one
time.
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So,
in
other
words,
don't
let
your
grasp
grower
than
about
four
and
a
half
to
five
inches
tall
before
mowing
it?
Hopefully
you
are
now
using
a
mulching
mower
so
that
all
of
those
grass
clippings
can
be
recycled
right
back
into
the
soil.
I
just
leave
them
there
on
the
lawn.
Now,
of
course,
if
you
have
other
ornamental
plantings,
you
probably
are
going
to
be
doing
some
more
planting
and
pruning
this
month.
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It's
still
fine
to
plant
flowers,
both
annuals
perennials,
as
long
as
you're
going
to
be
able
to
keep
the
water
for
the
next
month,
or
so
you
can
prune
evergreen
shrubs
really
for
yet
another
month
properly
through
the
month
of
June.
If
you
have
azaleas
and
rhododendrons
that
have
gotten
a
bit
overgrown
and
need
some
pruning
or
shaping
up
now
is
the
time
to
do
it
as
soon
as
those
flowers
have
faded
is
the
time
to
get
in
there
with
your
pruners
and
cut
them
back
a
little
bit.
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If
you
have
viruses
in
your
landscape,
they
have
finished
their
balloon
cycle
by
now,
and
so
this
is
also
a
good
time
to
divide
and
replant
those
if
they've
been
in
the
ground
several
years
and
gotten
too
crowded.
Now,
of
course,
one
of
our
challenges,
often
this
time
of
year,
is
keeping
up
with
the
watering
in
the
landscape.
Hopefully
you
can
stall
the
rain
barrel,
so
you'll
be
able
to
water
efficiently.
Another
important
step
is
mulching,
be
sure
to
remove
any
weeds.
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If
you
planted
those
early
crops,
you
are
certainly
picking
peas.
By
now,
your
broccoli
may
be
getting
near
the
end
of
its
cycle,
as
you
probably
are
now
harvesting
those
nice
side
shoots
after
removing
the
main
head,
probably
a
couple
of
weeks
ago,
and
you
may
still
be
harvesting
lettuce
and
some
other
greens.
Actually,
if
you
planted
squash
and
cucumbers
are
kind
of
early
on
in
May,
you
may
be
starting
to
pick
those
by
now.
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Also,
if
you
have
vining
type
plants
like,
of
course,
these
peas
or
beans
make
sure
you
get
those
trellises
up
for
those
before
they
really
start
to
need
them.
If
you
haven't
planted
your
summer
crops,
yet
don't
fret,
you
still
have
time
all
through
the
month
of
june,
to
go
ahead
and
plant
those
warm
season,
vegetables.
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The
later
you
get
on
into
the
month
of
June
the
harder
it's
probably
going
to
be
to
find
these
nice
stocky
short
plants
and
you're
more
likely
going
to
be
finding
things
that
are
a
little
kind
of
overgrown
with
the
tomatoes.
You
can
go
ahead
and
get
those
in
the
ground,
nice
and
deep,
because
they
will
root
right
on
up
the
stem
most
of
your
other
vegetable
plants.
You
cannot
do
that
with
so
you
do
want
to
be
careful
with
planting
and
handling
those.
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You
probably
are
also
going
to
need
to
be
keeping
up
with
some
pest
control
in
the
garden,
so
be
keeping
an
eye
on
some
of
those
things.
If
you
have
cabbage
family
crops
like
that
broccoli
and
collards
and
so
forth,
the
cabbage
worms
are
out
now,
so
you
will
probably
want
to
use
one
of
your
organic
bacterial
materials
to
control
those
caterpillars.
You
probably
also
have
tomatoes
in
the
garden
and
so
you're
going
to
need
to
be
applying
some
fungicides
to
be
preventing
late
blight
and
early
blight
diseases
on
your
Tomatoes.
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Traditional
gardeners
will
use
fungicides
such
as
your
deck
until
about
every
two
weeks
during
the
growing
season.
Fortunately,
there
are
now
some
organic
products
available
like
the
serenade
that
do
a
pretty
good
job
of
preventing
those
fungus
blights
on
the
tomatoes.
As
long
as
you
keep
them
applied
on
about
a
weekly
basis.
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If
you'd,
like
additional
information
on
learning
to
grow
vegetables,
a
couple
of
resources
I
have
for
you,
you
can
drop
by
the
Cooperative
Extension
Office
anytime,
and
pick
up
a
copy
of
the
home
vegetable
planting
guide
or
you
can
always
stop
by
and
pick
up
a
copy
of,
our
gardeners
Almanac
as
well.
Another
great
opportunity
is
to
drop
by
the
demonstration
garden
planted
and
maintained
by
gump
Buncombe
County
Extension,
Master,
Gardener
volunteers.
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Right
beside
manna,
Food
Bank,
you
can
drop
by
that
garden
to
visit
anytime,
but
the
volunteers
are
out
there
working
in
the
gardens
every
Thursday
morning,
starting
about
nine
thirty
and
they
commuter
drop
by
and
watch
what
they're
doing
and
ask
questions
and
learn
more.
If
you'd,
like
additional
information
on
gardening
in
buncombe
county,
feel
free
to
call
or
visit
buncombe
county
office
of
Cooperative
Extension.