11 Crops You'd Be Silly Not To Plant in June!

Spring might be over, but the garden adventure continues! Join Kevin, @jacquesinthegarden, @meggrowsplants, Shannie, and @ChicagoGardener as they reveal their top picks for epic plants to grow in June.

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
00:15 - Mizuna
01:40 - Black-Eyed Peas
02:48 - Peppers
04:07 - Yucca (Cassava)
07:30 - Sunflower
10:59 - Succession Planting Existing Plants (Tomatoes, Squash, Cucumber)
12:42 - Gomphrena
14:01 - Seminole Pumpkin
16:43 - Bitter Melon
18:42 - Dill, Chives, Fennel combo

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[allisonweatherford]

Love these monthly 'what to plant' videos! Time gets away from me with ADHD, and this series is consistently inspiring; no matter the month, there's something I can do. Thanks for making this content--it makes learning to garden more accessible.

[crisportugal]

Mizuna
Black eyed peas
Peppers
casava (yucca)
Sunflowers
Tomato (seeds)
Squash
Cucumber
Globe Amaranth
Seminole pumpkin
Bitter melon
Herbs : chives, garlic chives, fennel, fennel seed, dill

[catherinedonley]

I love how the team now spreads across most of the grow zones in the US. There is a little advice for almost everyone😁

[Nathanvd]

You’ve inspired me to start my own mini garden at 20 y/o in a small space my parents allow me to have. Your videos help out a ton! Much love and couldnt have done it without this channel ❤❤

[ap]

I really love the new format with multiple gardeners in different zones/parts of the country, and each with different gardening preferences. Especially thrilled with Meg, as a fellow zone 8A North Carolinian with a love for sunflowers and bitter melons. I grew ONE bitter melon plant last year, in a large pot - and it was the most prolific thing I've ever grown (cherry tomatoes don't count); I easily got 150+ bitter melons off the one plant.

[si-ekik]

Any chances of getting a video series on harvesting like the “when to plant” videos. Like “you’d be crazy not to harvest these in x month”? It would be fun to see everyone’s harvest from the “when to plant” especially the exact harvest each person goes over in the planting video. And tip on harvesting each plant we learned to grow. Thank you all for these videos . Has helped me so much!!

[SuperSasky]

Hi, a Caribbean girl here. We usually boil the leaves of the bitter melon, also known as carilla, cerasee . Yes it is very bitter but it is something which we used as a restorative. Commonly, school children are given a dose right before going back to school as a detox. As a child we would eat the ripe fruit, that is very sweet rather than bitter.

[thehobbyisttries]

I love that you are showing gardens from different regions! It's opening my mind to what varieties do best at different times of year depending on the region.

[adeleramsaroop]

Hi Meg, I'm from Trinidad in the Caribbean, we cut it in half lenghtwise and clean the seeds out n dice it up add salt let it sit for 20 to 30 minutes squeeze out the liquid and fry it by itself or we add dices potatoes to it when our harvest is little and we normally eat it with flat bread or sada roti...also you can cut the top and bottom off and clean the gut inside then stuff it with cooked beef and cook it till the better melon(carili) is full cooked

[xenomancer]

Fennel is an excellent companion plant for mint. I had both in a planter bed and fennel was easily able to hold off the mint (spearmint, chocolate mint, and apple mint). Every time a bulb is harvested, the root above ground will quickly form two or more to replace it. So, a single plant can become a small cut and come again bush. The roots emit a hormone to suppress the growth of other plants. This and deeper roots give fennel the ability to resist being choked out by vigorous weeds like mint. Letting mint serve as a living cover for blanching the bulb means the root does not need to be buried and new bulbs may form easily. Just harvest some of the surrounding mint and it will spring back in time to assist the next set of bulbs. New bulbs only form when sunlight can reach the cut root, so this method also means no more digging to expose the root for more bulbs.

[PVJSLJ]

OMG! Yay! Purple hull peas are the best! You can't imagine how many people haven't heard of them outside of the South.

[maggihoogs]

Thank you - really enjoying the monthly ‘what to plant’ and all the perspectives around the country - learning so much - thank you

[jouforward]

I love watching your program, yet again today you REALLY have out~done yourself.

All of your guests did an awesome job expressing interest in helping others and sharing their knowledge, thanks y'all!

[tahursh]

Bitter Melon aka Ampalaya - soak in salt water to remove more of the bitterness. Simply cooking it doesn't remove that bitter taste.
Any recipe you have that's akin to a stir fry, you can add this in. You can sub it in with peppers and onions. You can chop it up and add it to stews.
To prepare it, cut lengthwise in half and remove the seeds. If ripe, the seeds have a sweet gel around them. Slice each half (you'll have little crescent shaped slices) and put them in a bowl - give a good salt cover over them, add water just to cover (you can set ice on top of them also), and let them sit for at least a half hour. Drain them off and rinse them well. Cook them however you'd like after that!

[ann]

I've bought cuttings before and killed all of them because no one EVER explained how to figure out which way is up!!! THANK YOU!

[trayvixk]

Some very interesting crop recommendations :) Special shoutout to sunflowers because they're my favorite flowers. So big and dramatic, food for people and wildlife, the hard stalks can be trellis, and self-seed in random spots.

[JodiMontano]

I'm really enjoying this format with segments by different people in different parts of the US.

[SuperManning]

I love, love, love seeing all these gardeners across the country!

[springcougar]

You're like the avengers of growing! Greetings from Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[njpgdpd]

Really love that you’ve added gardeners from multiple zones, just had to say.