Moon Planting calendar of June

Don't garden before 11:25 AM – lunar node at 6:22 AM

Before 2:49 PM (14:49), root day:

VEGETABLE PATCH: 4th day for planting Jerusalem artichoke in rich soil, not too moist, in full sun / Plant mashua: rows spaced 2½ feet (80 cm) apart, 2 inches (5cm) deep, with a planting distance of 14 inches (35 cm); ridge soil up around stems when they're 6 inches tall (15 cm) / Plant storage potato, to ridge when plants reach 8 inches (20 cm) tall (in cold climates, you can wait until all risks of freezing are past); ridge potatoes planted earlier if they're tall enough; you can start harvesting early potato from the earlier varieties as needs arise / Plant spring garlic / Transplant once again your celeriac sown at the beginning of spring, and thin your other root crop vegetables / Transplant leek sown at the end of winter (pull them out, let them cure for 2 days in the sun, then dress leaves and roots and plant) / Plant crosnes in light soil (4 inches or 10 cm deep, in groups of 3, spaced 18 inches or 40 cm apart to all sides).

After 2:49 PM (14:49), entering a flower day:

LANDSCAPING: Prepare cuttings from spring-blooming shrubs that have lost their flowers (deutzia, forsythia, mock-orange, cinquefoil...) together with fuchsia, and to air-layer flower vines (wisteria, trumpet vine, honeysuckle) / Divide your spring bulbs if leaves are yellow already.

VEGETABLE PATCH: Thin broccoli and cauliflower cabbage sown in May / Harvest flowers from your herbs to make infusions.

LANDSCAPING: It's still time to sow, directly in the flower bed, fast-growing annuals (hollyhock, oriental poppy, cup-and-saucer vine, black-eyed Susan, nasturtium, honesty...) and, in a nursery, biennials (forget-me-not, sweet william, primrose, ravenelle wallflower...).

VEGETABLE PATCH: Finish sowing broccoli and cauliflower, in a nursery.

LANDSCAPING: 2nd day for preparing cuttings from spring-blooming shrubs that have lost their flowers (deutzia, forsythia, mock-orange, cinquefoil...) together with fuchsia, and to air-layer flower vines (wisteria, trumpet vine, honeysuckle) / Divide your spring bulbs if leaves are yellow already.

VEGETABLE PATCH: 2nd day for transplanting broccoli and cauliflower cabbage sown in May / Harvest flowers from your herbs to make infusions.

VEGETABLE PATCH: Blanch chicory and thin greens, spinach, cardoon, and silverbeet (or chard); for these specifically, keep one plant every 18 inches (40 cm) / Plant sweet fennel and branch celery sown in April, and transplant Brussels sprouts and Milan cabbage sown in March-April to their final growing bed if not done yet / Plant basil (in the warmer areas, part shade is betters, but in colder places go for full sun) / Harvest nettle and comfrey before they bloom to prepare fermented weed teas.

VEGETABLE PATCH: 2nd day for blanching chicory and thinning greens, spinach, cardoon, and silverbeet (or chard); for these specifically, keep one plant every 18 inches (40 cm) / Plant sweet fennel and branch celery sown in April, and transplant Brussels sprouts and Milan cabbage sown in March-April to their final growing bed if not done yet / Plant basil (in the warmer areas, part shade is betters, but in colder places go for full sun) / Harvest nettle and comfrey before they bloom to prepare fermented weed teas.

Before 4:21 PM (16:21), as the moon is descending:

ORCHARD: Thin fruits on apple and pear trees, keep only a single fruit per cluster on the branch; keep the most beautiful fruit, preferably near the center of the cluster for apples and around the edge of the cluster for pears.

VEGETABLE PATCH: Prune suckers off from your tomato plants (shoots that appear where leaves are attached to the stem), the most vigorous ones can be transplanted to the ground directly and will certainly bear fruit of their own; place any remaining ones atop cabbage (on heads and lower leaves) to repel diamondback moth / Prune squash, zucchini, melon, cucumber to speed production; mulch all of these vegetables abundantly and water them with diluted nettle tea / If not set up as you started sowing, position stakes for pole beans sown end of April-May.

LANDSCAPING: Plant ornamental fruit shrubs: callicarpa, aronia, spindle, strawberry tree, sea-buckthorn, cotoneaster, Kousa dogwood, firethorn; take care to water regularly during summer and fall to ensure proper settling in.

After 4:21 PM (16:21), the moon begins to ascend again:

VEGETABLE PATCH: Sow cucumber and pickle, squash and zucchini for a late-season harvest (3-4 seeds per seed hole; add compost). After sprouting, keep only one sprout per seed hole. Water it regularly without getting the leaves wet (to avoid fungal diseases) / Replenish seeds in the ranks of beans you've sown earlier.

Don't garden after 6:05 PM (18:05) – moon is at perigee at 11:06 PM (23:06)

VEGETABLE PATCH: 2nd day for sowing cucumber and pickle, squash and zucchini for a late-season harvest (3-4 seeds per seed hole; add compost). After sprouting, keep only one sprout per seed hole. Water it regularly without getting the leaves wet (to avoid fungal diseases)
Replenish seeds in the ranks of beans you've sown earlier.

VEGETABLE PATCH: New opportunity for sowing carrot, radish (monthly cycle and black winter radish), parsnip, swede, red beet, round radish to be eaten young, and an original outlier, rampion / Plant a few tubers of yacon strawberry (Polymnia edulis).

VEGETABLE PATCH: 2nd day for sowing carrot, radish (monthly cycle and black winter radish), parsnip, swede, red beet, round radish to be eaten young, and an original outlier, rampion / Plant a few tubers of yacon strawberry (Polymnia edulis).

LANDSCAPING: Sow in a nursery a collection of biennial flowers such as ravenelle wallflower, forget-me-not, sweet william or bellflower, and also perennials like poppy or hollyhock (make sure you keep the soil slightly moist) / Sow annual flowers (marigold, monkey-flower, snapdragon, pincushion, phlox, cosmos).

LANDSCAPING: 2nd day for sowing in a nursery a collection of biennial flowers such as ravenelle wallflower, forget-me-not, sweet william or bellflower, and also perennials like poppy or hollyhock (make sure you keep the soil slightly moist) / Sow annual flowers (marigold, monkey-flower, snapdragon, pincushion, phlox, cosmos).

Before 9:58 AM, flower day:

LANDSCAPING: 3rd day for sowing in a nursery a collection of biennial flowers such as ravenelle wallflower, forget-me-not, sweet william or bellflower, and also perennials like poppy or hollyhock (make sure you keep the soil slightly moist) / Sow annual flowers (marigold, monkey-flower, snapdragon, pincushion, phlox, cosmos).

After 9:58 AM, entering a leaf day:

VEGETABLE PATCH: Sow all salads (cutting lettuce, escarole, frisee, romaine, arugula, oakleaf, batavia, mesclun), as well as wild chicory (which needs blanching), watercress, purslane, parsley, chervil / Sow more sweet fennel / Sow chard: don't neglect varieties with colorful stems, they're beautiful in the vegetable patch / Finish sowing your Brussels sprouts in a nursery; also, again in a nursery, sow Milan cabbage for a nice winter crop.

VEGETABLE PATCH: 2nd day for sowing all salads (cutting lettuce, escarole, frisee, romaine, arugula, oakleaf, batavia, mesclun), as well as wild chicory (which needs blanching), watercress, purslane, parsley, chervil / Sow more sweet fennel / Sow chard: don't neglect varieties with colorful stems, they're beautiful in the vegetable patch / Finish sowing your Brussels sprouts in a nursery; also, again in a nursery, sow Milan cabbage for a nice winter crop.

Before 4:27 PM (16:27), leaf day:

VEGETABLE PATCH: 3rd day for sowing all salads (cutting lettuce, escarole, frisee, romaine, arugula, oakleaf, batavia, mesclun), as well as wild chicory (which needs blanching), watercress, purslane, parsley, chervil / Sow more sweet fennel / Sow chard: don't neglect varieties with colorful stems, they're beautiful in the vegetable patch / Finish sowing your Brussels sprouts in a nursery; also, again in a nursery, sow Milan cabbage for a nice winter crop.

After 4:27 PM (16:27), entering a fruit & seed day:

VEGETABLE PATCH: If not done yet, sow late-season zucchini, cucumber, squash, for each 3-4 seeds per seed hole in soil enriched with ripe compost, to keep moist until germination; afterwards, thin, keeping only the strongest plant in each seed hole / In the same manner, it is still time to sow sweet corn and all sorts of bean, as well as wrinkled pea / Sow colocynth to grow beautiful natural ornaments.

ORCHARD: Shield graft apple, pear, plum trees / Harvest red currant, raspberry, strawberry, cherry.

For early birds, don't garden before 5:05 AM – moon is at apogee at 12:04 AM (00:04)

VEGETABLE PATCH: 2nd day, if not done yet, for sowing late-season zucchini, cucumber, squash, for each 3-4 seeds per seed hole in soil enriched with ripe compost, to keep moist until germination; afterwards, thin, keeping only the strongest plant in each seed hole / In the same manner, it is still time to sow sweet corn and all sorts of bean, as well as wrinkled pea / Sow colocynth to grow beautiful natural ornaments.

ORCHARD: 2nd day for shield grafting of apple, pear, plum trees / Harvest red currant, raspberry, strawberry, cherry.

Before 5:18 PM (17:18), fruit & seed day:

VEGETABLE PATCH: 3rd day, if not done yet, for sowing late-season zucchini, cucumber, squash, for each 3-4 seeds per seed hole in soil enriched with ripe compost, to keep moist until germination; afterwards, thin, keeping only the strongest plant in each seed hole / In the same manner, it is still time to sow sweet corn and all sorts of bean, as well as wrinkled pea / Sow colocynth to grow beautiful natural ornaments.

After 5:18 PM (17:18), entering a root day:

VEGETABLE PATCH: Sow parsnip and storage carrot (fall and winter harvests) / Sow monthly cycle radish and winter radish (black radish, pink radish, purple radish, daikon radish) that you'll thin to 6 inches (15 cm) after sprouting / Sow round turnip for a harvest when very young, and winter turnip and late beet for winter / Sow swede or rutabaga, you'll thin sprouts to a distance of 1 foot (30 cm) / Sow early-harvest white onion and canning onions (harvest 2 months after sowing).

VEGETABLE PATCH: 2nd day for sowing parsnip and storage carrot (fall and winter harvests) / Sow monthly cycle radish and winter radish (black radish, pink radish, purple radish, daikon radish) that you'll thin to 6 inches (15 cm) after sprouting / Sow round turnip for a harvest when very young, and winter turnip and late beet for winter / Sow swede or rutabaga, you'll thin sprouts to a distance of 1 foot (30 cm) / Sow early-harvest white onion and canning onions (harvest 2 months after sowing).

VEGETABLE PATCH: 3rd day for sowing parsnip and storage carrot (fall and winter harvests) / Sow monthly cycle radish and winter radish (black radish, pink radish, purple radish, daikon radish) that you'll thin to 6 inches (15 cm) after sprouting / Sow round turnip for a harvest when very young, and winter turnip and late beet for winter / Sow swede or rutabaga, you'll thin sprouts to a distance of 1 foot (30 cm) / Sow early-harvest white onion and canning onions (harvest 2 months after sowing).

Before 11:57 AM, root day:

VEGETABLE PATCH: 4th day for sowing parsnip and storage carrot (fall and winter harvests) / Sow monthly cycle radish and winter radish (black radish, pink radish, purple radish, daikon radish) that you'll thin to 6 inches (15 cm) after sprouting / Sow round turnip for a harvest when very young, and winter turnip and late beet for winter / Sow swede or rutabaga, you'll thin sprouts to a distance of 1 foot (30 cm) / Sow early-harvest white onion and canning onions (harvest 2 months after sowing).

After 11:57 AM, entering a flower day:

LANDSCAPING: Catch-up session just before the moon starts descending this evening at 9:05 PM (21:05), for sowing in a nursery a collection of biennial flowers such as ravenelle wallflowers, forget-me-not, sweet william or bellflower, and also perennials like poppy or hollyhock (make sure you keep the soil slightly moist) / Sow annual flowers (marigold, monkey-flower, snapdragon, pincushion, phlox, cosmos).

LANDSCAPING: Finish pruning spring-blooming shrubs and, if needed, prune determinate rose trees that have stopped blooming / Eliminate lilac offshoots / Start planting fall bulbs / Plant water lily / Clean up deciduous azalea shrubs that have by now finished blooming / If you had blooming hydrangea in a pot, now is the time to transfer them to the ground after cutting off wilted flowers just above a pair of leaves / Did you sow coleus seeds earlier this year? If so, now is when to transfer them to the ground.

VEGETABLE PATCH: Transplant cauliflower and broccoli cabbage sown in May.

Before 4:45 PM (16:45), flower day:

LANDSCAPING: 2nd day for wrapping up the pruning of spring-blooming shrubs and, if needed, determinate rose trees that have stopped blooming / Eliminate lilac offshoots / Start planting fall bulbs / Plant water lily / Clean up deciduous azalea shrubs that have by now finished blooming / If you had blooming hydrangea in a pot, now is the time to transfer them to the ground after cutting off wilted flowers just above a pair of leaves / Did you sow coleus seeds earlier this year? If so, now is when to transfer them to the ground.

VEGETABLE PATCH: 2nd day for transplanting cauliflower and broccoli cabbage sown in May.

After 4:45 PM (16:45), entering a leaf day:

LANDSCAPING: Roll the lawn, mow it not too short (longer grass does better during summer in hot places), and spread lawn trimmings as mulch wherever needed as a very thin sheet / Prune ivy / Clear brush from overgrown patches: cut bramble and saplings, which you'll have to do again as soon as new shoots again to weaken the root systems.

VEGETABLE PATCH: Transplant may-sown cauliflower seedlings to a nursery, as well as New Zealand spinach if you've sown some / Trim woody herbs lightly (thyme, rosemary, savory) / Cut chives very short, even if you're not using it immediately / Marcot mint / Level off mounds and ridges in the asparagus patch / Keep blanching chicory.

LANDSCAPING: 2nd day for rolling the lawn, mow it not too short (longer grass does better during summer in hot places), and spread lawn trimmings as mulch wherever needed as a very thin sheet / Prune ivy / Clear brush from overgrown patches: cut bramble and saplings, which you'll have to do again as soon as new shoots again to weaken the root systems.

VEGETABLE PATCH: 2nd day for transplanting may-sown cauliflower seedlings to a nursery, as well as New Zealand spinach if you've sown some / Trim woody herbs lightly (thyme, rosemary, savory) / Cut chives very short, even if you're not using it immediately / Marcot mint / Level off mounds and ridges in the asparagus patch / Keep blanching chicory.

Summer solstice at 2:57 PM (14:57), no impact on gardening tasks.

Don't garden after 1:30 PM (13:30) – moon is at apogee at 6:30 PM (18:30)

Before 7:53 AM, leaf day:

LANDSCAPING: 3rd day for rolling the lawn, mow it not too short (longer grass does better during summer in hot places), and spread lawn trimmings as mulch wherever needed as a very thin sheet / Prune ivy / Clear brush from overgrown patches: cut bramble and saplings, which you'll have to do again as soon as new shoots again to weaken the root systems.

VEGETABLE PATCH: 3rd day for transplanting may-sown cauliflower seedlings to a nursery, as well as New Zealand spinach if you've sown some / Trim woody herbs lightly (thyme, rosemary, savory) / Cut chives very short, even if you're not using it immediately / Marcot mint / Level off mounds and ridges in the asparagus patch / Keep blanching chicory.
After 7:53 AM, entering a fruit & seed day:

ORCHARD: If not done early June, thin fruits on apple and pear trees, keep only a single fruit per cluster on the branch; keep the most beautiful fruit, preferably near the center of the cluster for apples and around the edge of the cluster for pears.

VEGETABLE PATCH: Again, prune suckers off from your tomato plants (shoots that appear where leaves are attached to the stem), the most vigorous ones can be transplanted to the ground directly and will certainly bear fruit of their own; place any remaining ones atop cabbage (on heads and lower leaves) to repel diamondback moth / Prune squash, zucchini, melon, cucumber to speed production; mulch all of these vegetables abundantly and water them with diluted nettle tea / If not set up as you started sowing, position stakes for pole beans sown end of April or early May.

LANDSCAPING: New chance to plant ornamental fruit shrubs: callicarpa, aronia, spindle, strawberry tree, sea-buckthorn, cotoneaster, Kousa dogwood, firethorn; take care to water regularly during summer and fall to ensure proper settling in.

ORCHARD: 2nd day, if not done early June, for thinning fruits on apple and pear trees, keeping only a single fruit per cluster on the branch; keep the most beautiful fruit, preferably near the center of the cluster for apples and around the edge of the cluster for pears.

VEGETABLE PATCH: 2nd day for, again, pruning suckers off from your tomato plants (shoots that appear where leaves are attached to the stem), the most vigorous ones can be transplanted to the ground directly and will certainly bear fruit of their own; place any remaining ones atop cabbage (on heads and lower leaves) to repel diamondback moth / Prune squash, zucchini, melon, cucumber to speed production; mulch all of these vegetables abundantly and water them with diluted nettle tea / If not set up as you started sowing, position stakes for pole beans sown end of April or early May.

LANDSCAPING: 2nd day for planting ornamental fruit shruts: callicarpa, aronia, spindle, strawberry tree, sea-buckthorn, cotoneaster, Kousa dogwood, firethorn; take care to water regularly during summer and fall to ensure proper settling in.

ORCHARD: 3rd day, if not done early June, for thinning fruits on apple and pear trees, keeping only a single fruit per cluster on the branch; keep the most beautiful fruit, preferably near the center of the cluster for apples and around the edge of the cluster for pears.

VEGETABLE PATCH: 3rd day for, again, pruning suckers off from your tomato plants (shoots that appear where leaves are attached to the stem), the most vigorous ones can be transplanted to the ground directly and will certainly bear fruit of their own; place any remaining ones atop cabbage (on heads and lower leaves) to repel diamondback moth / Prune squash, zucchini, melon, cucumber to speed production; mulch all of these vegetables abundantly and water them with diluted nettle tea / If not set up as you started sowing, position stakes for pole beans sown end of April or early May.

LANDSCAPING: 3rd day for planting ornamental fruit shruts: callicarpa, aronia, spindle, strawberry tree, sea-buckthorn, cotoneaster, Kousa dogwood, firethorn; take care to water regularly during summer and fall to ensure proper settling in.

Before 8:35 AM, fruit & seed day:

ORCHARD: 4th day, if not done early June, for thinning fruits on apple and pear trees, keeping only a single fruit per cluster on the branch; keep the most beautiful fruit, preferably near the center of the cluster for apples and around the edge of the cluster for pears.

VEGETABLE PATCH: 4th day for, again, pruning suckers off from your tomato plants (shoots that appear where leaves are attached to the stem), the most vigorous ones can be transplanted to the ground directly and will certainly bear fruit of their own; place any remaining ones atop cabbage (on heads and lower leaves) to repel diamondback moth / Prune squash, zucchini, melon, cucumber to speed production; mulch all of these vegetables abundantly and water them with diluted nettle tea / If not set up as you started sowing, position stakes for pole beans sown end of April or early May.

LANDSCAPING: 4th day for planting ornamental fruit shrubs: callicarpa, aronia, spindle, strawberry tree, sea-buckthorn, cotoneaster, Kousa dogwood, firethorn; take care to water regularly during summer and fall to ensure proper settling in.

After 8:35 AM, entering a root day:

VEGETABLE PATCH: Transplant leek sown in April-May (pull them out, let them cure for 2 days in the sun, and then dress leaves and roots before planting them again), or plant those you've bought in bunches / Plant sweet potato / Thin seedlings that were sown in April-May: parsnip, red beet, chicory, carrot and turnip / Plant celeriac sown in March-April / Ridge potato plants and finish planting them if you still have spuds / Plant Japanese artichoke for a fall harvest / Plant chufa / Harvest a few early turnips and monthly cycle radish, as well as your first carrots of the year if you had sown them in a tunnel, and a few early potatoes.

VEGETABLE PATCH: 2nd day for transplanting leek sown in April-May (pull them out, let them cure for 2 days in the sun, and then dress leaves and roots before planting them again), or plant those you've bought in bunches / Plant sweet potato / Thin seedlings that were sown in April-May: parsnip, red beet, chicory, carrot and turnip / Plant celeriac sown in March-April / Ridge potato plants and finish planting them if you still have spuds / Plant Japanese artichoke for a fall harvest / Plant chufa / Harvest a few early turnips and monthly cycle radish, as well as your first carrots of the year if you had sown them in a tunnel, and a few early potatoes.

VEGETABLE PATCH: 3rd day for transplanting leek sown in April-May (pull them out, let them cure for 2 days in the sun, and then dress leaves and roots before planting them again), or plant those you've bought in bunches / Plant sweet potato / Thin seedlings that were sown in April-May: parsnip, red beet, chicory, carrot and turnip / Plant celeriac sown in March-April / Ridge potato plants and finish planting them if you still have spuds / Plant Japanese artichoke for a fall harvest / Plant chufa / Harvest a few early turnips and monthly cycle radish, as well as your first carrots of the year if you had sown them in a tunnel, and a few early potatoes.

Don't garden between 7:20 AM and 5:25 PM (7:20 to 17:25) – lunar node at 12:23 PM

VEGETABLE PATCH: 4th day for transplanting leek sown in April-May (pull them out, let them cure for 2 days in the sun, and then dress leaves and roots before planting them again), or plant those you've bought in bunches / Plant sweet potato / Thin seedlings that were sown in April-May: parsnip, red beet, chicory, carrot and turnip / Plant celeriac sown in March-April / Ridge potato plants and finish planting them if you still have spuds / Plant Japanese artichoke for a fall harvest / Plant chufa / Harvest a few early turnips and monthly cycle radish, as well as your first carrots of the year if you had sown them in a tunnel, and a few early potatoes.

LANDSCAPING: New timeframe for preparing cuttings from spring-blooming shrubs that have lost their flowers (deutzia, forsythia, mock-orange, cinquefoil...) together with fuchsia, and to air-layer flower vines (wisteria, trumpet vine, honeysuckle) / Divide your spring bulbs if leaves are yellow already / Finish pruning spring-blooming shrubs and, if needed, prune determinate rose trees that have stopped blooming / Eliminate lilac offshoots / Start planting fall bulbs / Plant water lily / Clean up deciduous azalea shrubs that have by now finished blooming / If you had blooming hydrangea in a pot, now is the time to transfer them to the ground after cutting off wilted flowers just above a pair of leaves / Did you sow coleus seeds earlier this year? If so, now is when to transfer them to the ground.

VEGETABLE PATCH: Plant cauliflower sown last May, and thin any remaining cauliflower and broccoli seedlings / Harvest flowers from your herbs to make infusions.

Before 2:50 PM (14:50), flower day:

LANDSCAPING: 2nd day for preparing cuttings from spring-blooming shrubs that have lost their flowers (deutzia, forsythia, mock-orange, cinquefoil...) together with fuchsia, and to air-layer flower vines (wisteria, trumpet vine, honeysuckle) / Divide your spring bulbs if leaves are yellow already / Finish pruning spring-blooming shrubs and, if needed, prune determinate rose trees that have stopped blooming / Eliminate lilac offshoots / Start planting fall bulbs / Plant water lily / Clean up deciduous azalea shrubs that have by now finished blooming / If you had blooming hydrangea in a pot, now is the time to transfer them to the ground after cutting off wilted flowers just above a pair of leaves / Did you sow coleus seeds earlier this year? If so, now is when to transfer them to the ground.

VEGETABLE PATCH: 2nd day for planting cauliflower sown last May, and for thinning any remaining cauliflower and broccoli seedlings / Harvest flowers from your herbs to make infusions.

After 2:50 PM (14:50), entering a leaf day:

LANDSCAPING: If you've got a wild patch to clear, now is a good time to clean it up: chop bramble, thistle and wild shrubs down to the ground.

VEGETABLE PATCH: Plant mizuna cabbage, Milan cabbage and Brussels sprouts sown in May-June / Remember to blanch leaf greens that require it (frisee, escarole...) / Thin chicory and lettuce sprouts sown in June / Transplant branch celery.