Duties & DIY Tasks — Empress of Dust
June is a busy time for cold-climate gardeners. Summer season is right here and it’s time to plant, create, and go to different gardens for inspiration.
Take a look on the concepts for this month.
June Backyard Duties
Right here in southwestern Ontario, Canada, the month of June will be sizzling and dry. It’s the month of summer time solstice with the longest interval of daylight and shortest night time round June 20 or 21. Our gardens are beginning to thrive and it’s backyard tour season—excellent for grabbing contemporary concepts.
Develop
Planting, Sowing, & Extra
Outdoor
With final frost within the rearview mirror, summer time rising season underway, and it’s time to plant, plant, plant!
Pond
Wild Issues
Indoors
Make
Inventive Tasks
June is a really busy time for me. If I’m not working within the backyard, I’m visiting gardens. It’s an exquisite, however fast-paced month.
Right here’s some venture concepts.
When you’re scouring yard gross sales for provides, that is the guidelines I exploit.
When you take pleasure in stitching, you may make some develop luggage and a pleasant backyard apron.
Concepts
Dream & Scheme
Observe & Take pleasure in
You could not understand it by the identify phenology, however you actually know what it’s. Phenology is the science of observing annual first occasions in nature. When flower buds open. When peepers first peep. When bees seem. When migrations arrive. When bulbs pop up. The listing is countless.
Seasonal adjustments immediate pure responses within the plant and animal kingdoms. It’s fascinating to notice these occasions and examine them yr over yr. I jot them down in a Google calendar I’ve dedicated to Phenology.
This e-book, Phenology, by Theresa Crimmins has great examples.
Summer season Phenological Occasions
Right here’s a number of examples you would possibly discover.
- Late Could or early June usually means frog and toad mating time. These night-time calls are deafening (however productive)!
- Tree leaves are out!
- Early-blooming crops are exhibiting off.
- It’s most likely peak bug month. Butterflies, bees, and different pollinators are gathering nectar and pollen.
- Fireflies are blinking within the night time.
- Monarchs are laying eggs.
- Child birds are fledging; prepared to go away the nest. And there are extra broods to return!
- Summer season solstice marks the longest day of the yr.
Sources
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Seasonal Plant Cuttings Calendar
Consists of plant lists from this text.
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100 Enjoyable Upcycled Backyard Tasks
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Printable Backyard Planner & Notes
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Joyful June! Joyful summer time. Hold cool.
~Melissa the Empress of Dust ♛
