06/03/2026
For a lot of folks, June is when the gardening season finally kicks into high gear. Especially up north, the dirt has finally warmed up, the days are beautifully long, and everything in the beds just suddenly explodes with growth.
Around my neighborhood, though, a ton of growers look at June as the start of a whole second season. Once that frantic spring planting rush dies down, any empty patches in the dirt are seen as prime real estate rather than just wasted space.
The guy next door always tells me that a garden should never just sit idle. The second one crop finishes up and comes out, he’s got something else lined up to drop right back into the ground. By the time late summer rolls around, his backyard looks way more packed than it did in the spring, and he’s hauling in endless piles of fresh food every single day.
