What to Plant in June: Vegetable Garden Growing Guide

Learn what to plant in June with Homesteaders of America Vegetable Garden Growing Guides!

No matter where you live in America, summer is officially here this month! Even if it is still chilly at night there is something we can all be growing to take control of our own food source and provide our family’s with the freshest and most delicious produce the season has to offer!

What to Plant in June: Vegetable Garden Growing Guide

How to Use the Growing Guides

In the Growing Guides, you will learn what to plant each month according to when your last frost date. 

• Look up your last frost date by zip code if you don’t know it already.
• Choose the Growing Guide for this month
• Find which month your last frost date is in
• Follow the seed starting suggestions on the graphic

The Growing Guides will be targeted for the continental United States, which also includes some of the warmer areas of our country such as southern extremes Texas and Florida. Their growing season is vastly different from folks living in the northernmost states.

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Last Frost Date in January

Believe it or not, it’s time to start thinking about your fall garden! Though your fall garden is going to look a lot different than someone who is growing in a region where their last frost date is in April or May. Your fall garden is more like a second shot at a summer garden. Lucky you!

Last Frost Date in February

Things are heating up! There are a still some heat-loving plants you can start growing in your garden!

Last Frost Date in March

Late start getting your garden in? It happens to the even the best gardeners. Don’t despair! There are still many plants you can still get into your garden before it’s too late.

Last Frost Date in April

What to get the most yield from your vegetable garden? Get another succession of cool season crops such as radishes or heat-tolerant lettuce going! If you have the space consider succession planting other quick crops such as beans and summer squash.

As you start bringing in the harvest have your cover crop seeds ready to scatter if you won’t be succession planting. Bare soil easily erodes, losing organic matter and nutrients. The roots of your cover crops will hold soil in place, increase the organic matter, nutrients, and soil life in your garden.

If you will be planting again in a couple months grow a quick cover crop that will appreciate the cooler spring weather. If the space will be left unplanted consider a cover crop that will stand up to your summer heat.

Last Frost Date in May

While most of your garden is in and the growing season is well underway, you can maximize your growing efforts through succession planting! Early crops or quick growing ones will be ready to go into the ground again so you can make good use of your garden space and harvest even more.

Last Frost Date in June

If your last frost date is this month, your garden may already be well on its way with plants that can tolerate more chilly weather. June is the time for you to plant all of your direct started seeds in the ground. Tender seedlings can be transplanted now as well!