This June Planting Guide is meant for those of you living in Zones 5 & 6. This post originally appeared as a guest post on The Survival Mom!

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How to find my Garden Zone?
Let me start out by giving you a quick link. This post is meant for those of you living mainly in Garden Zones 5 and 6. If you don’t know what your garden zone is, follow this link to find out!
Not in zones 5 or 6? Check out our posts on zones 3 & 4, 7 & 8, or 9 & 10
June Gardening Tips
Even the most avid gardeners have a bad year! Any number of things can keep you out of the garden in April and May. Weather problems, work commitments, family problems . . . we’ve all been there. Don’t give up on your garden just yet. There are still plenty of yummy veggies you can get planted now (in mid to late June).
This June Planting Guide will get you a nice harvest before the summer ends. Let’s talk about what you can still get planted now.

June Planting Guide
June Planting Guide – Summer or Warm-Season Veggies
Tomatoes
No summer garden is complete without a few tomato plants and you can still get some in. Hurry on this one! Most nurseries will still have a few tomato plants hanging around but they won’t last much longer.
Don’t try to plant tomatoes by seed this time of year. This late in the year you want to be thinking about smaller quicker maturing varieties. Try some type of cherry tomato varieties to look for include Sun Sugar and sweet 100. They are relatively fast growers and should still give you a good harvest in September and early October.

You can also try some of the tomatoes that produce small to medium-sized fruit. Varieties like Early Girl, possibly Celebrity, or many of the Roma tomatoes. Try to find tomatoes that grow on determinate vines vs Indeterminate. These will spend less time growing vines and more time growing fruit. The 6 weeks you have lost in growing time means you won’t have a huge harvest this year, but if you get them in soon you should still have plenty for fresh eating!
Summer Squashes
Zucchini and yellow crookneck squash
are actually quite fast-growing. Look for varieties that have a maturity date of around 60 to 70 days. You should still have lots of time to grow more zucchini than you can eat! You could also look for a pattypan squash with a short maturity date.

Green beans
Most bush-type green beans have a maturity date of around 60 to 70 days so there is plenty of summer left for beans. In fact, I don’t make my last planting of green beans until mid-July and still have a great harvest! Learn more about growing a late crop of beans with this article.

Melons
If you would still like to plant melons you have a little bit of time left. Choose the small “icebox” types as those take much less time to mature. You can also get cantaloupe planted now. Again don’t expect a huge harvest this year, but you will still have a few melons that will be ready before the frost comes.

Potatoes
If you can find the seed still around at your local nurseries there is time to grow a nice crop of potatoes. In fact, you could continue to plant potatoes until mid-July in most areas of the country. You can still get a nice harvest of small roasting potatoes. This time of the year I would stay away from the big “baking” potatoes, like russets. As you are running short of time to get them to maturity.

Cucumbers
Cucumbers are a good late-season planter to be included in a June planting guide. Again you may not get the huge yields you are used to but by planting seeds now you can still have a fairly respectable crop. Check out our complete growing guide on cucumbers here.

Onions
If you can still find a package of onion sets at your local nursery they will do okay this time of year. You won’t get a lot of large onions but you will have plenty of smaller onions and green onions. Don’t try growing onions from seed or starts this late in the year.

Herbs
Many herbs will still do well if planted this time of year. But it would be best if you could find starts, instead of trying to plant seeds.
June Planting Guide Cool Weather Veggies
You can still have an awesome harvest of cool-weather veggies by planning now to get them planted in late summer and early fall. Nearly anything you would normally plant in the springtime you can also plant in the fall.
Most of the following crops in this June planting guide are meant to be planted INDOORS in your seed starter for transplant out into the garden in August.

Cole Crops
Broccoli, cabbage, kale, and kohlrabi. If you grow your own seedlings mid-June is a good time to start a fall crop of all these yummy cool-season veggies. If you plant any of the Cole crops indoors now, they will be ready for planting out in the garden in about 6 to 8 weeks.
That means you will be planting them around mid-August. They will mature in October when the weather has cooled back to those temperatures that Cole crops love so much!
You may find many of these veggies are even tastier in the fall because a night or two of frost helps to sweeten the flavor. You will be planting these INDOORS in your seed starter for transplant to the garden in August.
Lettuce
You can start replanting lettuce about 6 to 8 weeks before your first frost (for us that’s August 1 – 15). Fall planted lettuce can last unprotected in your garden until early December depending on where you live. Again you will be planting these INDOORS in your seed starter in June and moving them outside in August.
You can also consider some Summer Crisp lettuces. These lettuces are more heat tolerant and can be planted directly in the soil in June for harvest in August and September. Try a variety like Nevada for a great summer crop!

Spinach
This one may seem strange for a June planting guide. Most people see spinach as a spring-only crop. It does very well in the fall! Again look at planting about 6 weeks before your first frost and you will be able to start harvesting in late October.

Then cover those plants with a cold frame or hoop house and they will overwinter for an extra early spring crop. Again any planting you do in June will be INDOORS in your seed starter for transplant outside as the fall approaches.

Root Crops
Carrots, turnips, beets, and Parsnip all do well in the fall and you can start replanting them around 6 weeks before your last frost. A June planting of these root crops will need some extra care to get germinated (think extra water) but will do well once established. The taste of these summer-grown root crops won’t be as good as their spring or fall counterparts, but they should still give you a good harvest.

So as you can see from this June planting guide, all is not lost, get out there this weekend, and gets some seeds and plants in your garden and you can still have an awesome harvest this year!

Thanks for this. My first attempt at gardening has not gone so well, but I keep trying — telling myself to learn all I can this year so I have a better start next year. Glad to know I still have time to *maybe* get good results.
I’m currently starting my FIRST garden and am working on the research. this is the best website I have found so far.
Thanks!
It’s rained so much we were unable to till our gardens here so we finally got everything in just about a week ago’ seed planting of green beans and corn were in around 3 weeks ago and are up, but pretty much all plants weren’t able to be planted until we could work the garden without making mud, I joked about planting rice this year instead of tomatoes and peppers, my small garden is raised bed so I was lucky enough to be able to get it in around Memorial Day, in the past few years the weather has held out longer into the fall giving us a little longer growing season, here’s hoping for another extended summer.
Good Luck Jerry!!
you mention zones, mbut you don’t say where the zones are located. I did a search on zones but got a colored map of the USA. please be more specific. Just because you know what it is you’re talking about doesn’t mean everyone else knows!
Stephen, Hardiness Zones are an important part of your gardening efforts. You need to find out what zone you are in. There are a couple of ways you can find this out. The first is by asking your local extension agency. The second is by looking it up on the USDA plant Hardiness site. Here’s the link : https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/ You can put in your zip code at the top and it will give you a starting point. But there are a lot of gray areas on this map, so it might be a good idea to talk to your extension agency and get their take as well.
Thank you for caring 🙏