If you’re reading this and it’s the end of May or beginning of June, it’s not too late to start your garden AND have a tasty yield of nutritious vegetables that you can harvest in late summer and early autumn.
All of the options in this June garden plan are productive and nutritious vegetables, with lots of options for long-term storage, drying, and freezing.
If your first frost is October 1st, and you plant these out by the middle of June, the veggies on this list should all mature in time for abundant harvests.
Here are my top picks for vegetables to plant in June:
bush beans:
~60 days to harvest
their bush habit means that they don’t need to be trellised
bush beans can be preserved easily
with their quick maturity date, you can do 2 plantings this month and 2 plantings in July for an extended harvest, assuming your first frost is October 1st (from Lorne Edwards).
favorite varieties are Provider Bush + Royalty Purple Pod. Purple podded beans are nice because they’re easier to see against the dark green foliage, so harvesting is easier!
quick maturing winter squash:
~90 days to harvest
if you have the space, plant a lot of winter squash for eating in the autumn, winter, and even into the spring. they are a cinch to cure and store!
you can plant winter squash on the edges of beds and let them grow in pathways, or make an arched trellis for them to climb up and rest on
once you harvest the main head of broccoli, keep the plant growing for a couple harvests of side shoots
For a larger head, try de cicco (~85 days), for quick harvests, go with spring rapini, and plant purple sprouting in the fall for a harvest in early spring the following year.
pac choi
~45-60 days to harvest
tasty in salads and stir fries
baby shanghai and purple epic both mature in 45 days - plant one sowing now and 1 sowing at the end of July.
