What To Plant In Your Florida Vegetable Garden In June

June is planting time for summer vegetable crops. These are primarily tropical crops and cover crops that can withstand the high heat and humidity, and heavy rainfall of our Florida summers.

Websites that offer seeds for some of these heat tolerant vegetables:

For major pest infestations the following can be used:
Organic Pest Control Methods:
1) Spray Insecticidal Soap directly on the the bugs (I do this late in the day and rinse off the next morning so the sun doesn't burn the plants). Do repeated treatments every few weeks until they are gone. For a homemade soapy water spray, I mix up some castile soap with water and neem oil (I do 1 tsp of Dr. Bronner Soap + 1 tsp Neem Oil to a quart of water in a spray bottle, per the instructions on the neem oil bottle, but there are many recipes online for homemade insecticidal soap that would probably work just as well).
Alternately, you could buy a pre-mixed Insecticidal Soap.
These are the brands I have used, but I'm sure there are plenty of other good ones:

Here are links for many of the products I use in my vegetable garden. Note that a lot of these items, like the fertilizers and the trays/saucers, have gotten much more expensive lately (like everything else). I shop around to find the best prices on the items and if I can't find something at a reasonable price then I will just do without or find a substitute):

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In addition to the above fertilizers I occasionally use these seaweed and fish fertilizers to give my plants a boost of nutrients. I also use some of the seaweed fertilizer (half-strength) on my seedlings right after I transplant them (Note: I don’t use fertilizers with fish in them for seedlings):

The Following Organic Soil Amendments Add Trace Minerals To The Soil.

Self-Watering Grow Boxes:

[chrismatteson]

Very thorough without being too long. Thank you!

[gaffster]

Thanks! Yep....So much to learn, but the challenges are fun. It seems like some racoon "friends" got past the chicken wire last night and had a lil sweet 'tator partee and I think the bunnies got some of our baby sunflowers but the Seminole pumpkin, Brazilian spinach, moringa, luffa, herbs and mulberry are off to the races. I usually have a tray or two of microgreens going out on the porch all year. This week's pea shoots are very sweet.

[mystiquelunasora]

Very informative. Thank you kindly for sharing your knowledge.

[LifeIsMessyImLearningAsIGrow]

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I’m back for another update of your beautiful garden. It’s amazing to see the changes in your plants over time. I look forward to watching your garden grow! I love watching my garden grow a little each day, that is my favorite part of gardening. It’s so fun to have the growth documented over the season to look back at and see progress. I love that about being a garden YouTuber. Let’s learn & grow more together!

[sunshinensprinkles]

Thank you. From the Florida panhandle ☀️🌸

[shirleen]

thank you from Palm Bay Florida East Coast. great info.

[JLMISR]

who sells these seeds so we can plant them? Thank you for such great information, you give so much detail and cover so many bases, it is priceless and gives lots of people encouragement and confidence to grow a green thumb....lol!!!

[tiannarobertson]

Thank you so much for the list! I’m having a hard time with plant diseases and bugs this year. I’m in west central FL and the culprit currently is cucumber mosaic virus and pickle worms that have attacked my squash, zucchini and cucumbers😞 I’m trying to avoid toxic pesticides so I use a lot of natural remedies but I’m still struggling as I’m learning. Any recommendations/sites that have a large quantity of disease resistant seeds? Im having a hard time finding them in stock online. Any help is greatly appreciated!

[belindatanner]

What is pigeon pea like? Growth habit?

[JLMISR]

Question, what ideas do you give for people who have wildlife entering their yards, like beat, bobcats etc? thank you!

[lzshow]

What mulch should I buy to keep soil from drying out