Early June is not too late to get your summer gardening underway. Adding color, pruning, controlling slugs, dividing perennials, planting vegetables and eliminating weeds head the list of things to do in June.
- Carefully pull up morning glory. You can stop it from becoming rampant by repeatedly attacking it.
- Deadhead roses and cut back oriental poppies.
- Prune early blooming shrubs such as spirea, viburnum and lilac when they have finished flowering.
- Hunt for slugs after rain or at night and knock aphids to the ground using a jet of water from the hose.
- Reduce clusters of apples to reduce weight on branches and promote big fruit later in summer.
- Plant heat loving vegetables such as peppers, cucumbers and eggplant.
- Lift and divide congested clumps of irises after they have finished flowering and replant.
