June 29, 2025

Garden Notes: June 2025

Rainfall

  • 5th: 0.01"
  • 7th: 0.31"
  • 8th: 0.19"
  • 12th: 0.11"
  • 13th: 0.51"
  • 14th: 0.02"
  • 16th: sprinkle
  • 17th: 0.25"
  • 19th: thunder
  • 24th: 0.17"
  • 25th: sprinkle
  • 26th: 0.32"
  • 28th: 0.03"
  • Total so far: 1.92 inches
 Temperature
  • range of nighttime lows: 57 to 72°F (14 to 22°C)
  • range of daytime highs: 79 to 95°F (26 to 35°C)

Weather Notes: 

  • Fortunately, it hasn't gotten as hot as our weather forecasts have predicted!
  • Small rainfall amounts are welcome, but tend to evaporate out of the ground quickly.
  • With the fairly frequent rain showers, the humidity has been high and so has the heat index!

Garden Notes

  • Every day has been busy with preserving. The month began with daily picking and canning of peaches, cucumber pickles, or greens. I've been able to rotate these in a way to keep busy but not overwhelmed. 
  • Sadly, something ate all of my dill transplants so I've had to buy dill for the pickles.
  • The peas are about done. I'll have plenty of seed to save for next year. I should try some of the dried ones in soup this winter. Maybe make a pea powder?
  • Lettuce all bolted by the end of the month, but little Swiss chard leaves are nice in salad.
  • Cherry tomatoes came on toward the end of the month, so our salads are now mostly cucumber and tomato.

Planted

  • sweet potato squash
  • buckwheat
  • sweet potato slips
Harvested
  • peaches
  • lettuce, cultivated
  • lettuce, wild
  • snow peas
  • lambs quarter
  • Swiss chard
  • oregano
  • mulberries
  • cucumbers
  • daikon radish
  • broccoli bites
  • beets
  • carrot
  • blueberries
  • cherry tomatoes
  • slicing tomatoes
  • Egyptian walking onions
Preserved
  • peaches, canned
  • peach vinegar
  • peach jam
  • greens (mix of chard, kale, and lambs quarter), canned
  • cucumber pickles, canned
  • mulberries, frozen
  • wheat berries, frozen
Photos

Garden pickings from early June

Garden pickings from late June

Jars of canned cucumber pickles

Bucket of peaches

Peaches and mulberries for breakfast

Jars of canned peaches

Making and canning peach jam

Bell pepper plant in the African keyhole garden

Preparing greens for canning: lambs quarter, kale, and Swiss card

Simmering greens for hot pack canning

Volunteer carrot. It grew in one of my greenhouse containers. It became a carrot raisin salad.

Wheat harvest

Preparing wheat for threshing. I use the dryer & golf ball method.

How's everyone else's garden doing?

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