Zone 8-9 What to Sow in June?

[myfirstgarden]

Hello, I am looking for advice or a good guide as to what seeds to start during each month, June especially. Every guide seems to be different and it is hard to know what I should really be doing. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Garden On,
Emily

[RebelRidin]

Hi Emily,

There are lots of tables out there. June is getting a little later in warm season planting schedule for zones 8 and 9 I think. Time and experience will help as you learn how things do in your own micro-climate. For a start you might try the planting calculators at Johnny's Seeds. I have found them helpful. They provide schedules based on your frost dates.

http://www.johnnyseeds.com/t-Interac...GrowersLibrary


Also found this page for Sacramento garden schedule. They indicate they adapted it from infor from UC Davis...
http://www.sacramentogardening.com/e...gardening.html

This site has tables for various zones... http://www.thevegetablegarden.info/planting-schedules

Good fortunes.....

[jerryinfla]

Field peas/cow peas/southern peas and okra do well when planted in hot months of June and July in our zone 9 heat.

[myfirstgarden]

RebelRidin thanks for the links. I think you are right when you say I just need to experiment and see what works. I wanted a quick answer, do this now. The links provided me with a nice list of a variety of veggies to start. I am a little confused about the dates. Do they mean start from seed or plant as little plants?

Jerryinfla, I will have to try peas and okra and see how they grow.

[irukasgirl]

I use this chart, along with the Sacramento planting guide posted previously. I live in zone 8B http://mastergardeners.org/warm-cool-veg-charts

[myfirstgarden]

Irukasgirl, I like this chart.One think I never understand about the charts is what they mean by a check mark, sow, transplant...This explains it all. Now I need to find a good place to buy seeds.

[RebelRidin]

Originally Posted by myfirstgarden

...I am a little confused about the dates. Do they mean start from seed or plant as little plants? ...

The tables have footnotes or another indicator for direct sowing or transplant. I particularly like the ones at Johnny's because they give actual dates to guide you once they have your frost date. That table listed by irukasgirl should be very helpful.

[DavidP]

Originally Posted by irukasgirl

I use this chart, along with the Sacramento planting guide posted previously. I live in zone 8B http://mastergardeners.org/warm-cool-veg-charts

Thats a good suggestion. I believe the chart is specific to Santa Clara county and they have a great website for their master gardener program at the link above.
Depending on where you are, I'd recommend looking at the California wide planting chart which i suspect was the starting point for the Sacramento and Santa Clara ones. Its available on the UC Davis master gardener site at
http://ucanr.org/sites/gardenweb/files/29040.pdf