- Continue to harvest for the best taste and ripeness and to encourage new growth.
- As temperatures rise and spring rains become less frequent, you may need to water your vegetable garden more frequently and replace mulch to help retain soil moisture.
- Weed your garden regularly and inspect plants for disease or insect damage.
- Use a light row cover for pest protection.
- Place straw under the developing fruit of melon, pumpkin and squash.
- Harvest strawberries, blackberries and raspberries daily.
- Direct sow summer crops for continuous harvest: beans, okra, squash, cucumber, pumpkin, melon, sunflower, most herbs, and some other crop varieties (follow instructions on the seed packet).
- Provide stakes, trellises or cages for tall plants to prevent damage.
- Plant more basil (as often as every 2 to 3 weeks) and other heat-loving herbs such as rosemary.
- Continually deadhead plants and herbs to discourage bolting and promote new growth.
- Prune tomato plants and other crops to remove debris and open up plants to more sun.
- Harvest garlic late June to early July when tops are half green to half brown.
- Start Brussels sprouts indoors for fall planting.
- Continue to monitor sweet potato slips until sprouts grow 5 to 6 inches. Then pluck them, and plant slips in the garden in mid to late June.