GROW RARE SEEDS | What To Plant In June 

Orach works too and they stock it here. (former New Mexico gardener)

I was wondering about Malabar spinach for a houseplant, I’ve never grown or eaten it

Longevity spinach grows like crazy here in North Georgia in Summer.

It would be so easy to do that!!! The catalog and website are simply gorgeous!

@@BradfordHomestead my problem is I got mostly cold stuff and it's hot lol but I'm ready for next year

I have the same problem. I keep buying seeds. They don’t have a shipping cost, sooo… I keep buying! 😆

Can't get on their site. Phone is disconnected also.

And for Texas :))

I thought that Florida only grew theme parks. JK

@@Deadcntr nah, we grow Canadians and New Yawkers too.

I also got a late start, but to be fair, our last cold snap was in May. You got this!

I want them too 😁

Overall envy!!!😍

Sounds like we need our own subchannel!

I am in SW Texas. Rainiest May and June I ever saw. I am almost 60. We usually see 100s in May and no 100s yet.

@@notagovslave5614 Late late wet spring in SE Louisiana as well. I'm afraid the blazing heat will emerge all of a sudden and the plants will freak out! Such is life under climate change.

@@hyacinthABC my garden has been loving it. My family dinners are much healthier.

@@notagovslave5614 Me too! Never had such great heirloom tomatoes! It's been hotter in Michigan than down here according to another RU-vidr I follow.

Tulle fabric on hoops over your veggies to prevent pest from gettting to them.

Combat gardening! 😂😂 I’m gonna use that!! I’m south of Houston, the bugs down here are something special. Found something that actually works! I mixed neem oil and Dr Bronner’s peppermint soap. We had a leaf minor plague, and I lost SOOO much. After I tried it, I won the war. Last year I had an army of aphids, not one this year. My new favorite bug mix also kills squash bugs. 😱 I had a squash plant 2” high, and like 10 bugs fighting over who is crawling on it. Note: spray your soil as well. After I figured that out, it actually stopped the sourced. Also note: keep your mouth closed when spraying, bugs come flying out fast! Your mouth looks like a nice dark place to hide. Hope that helps! 😁

I just commented to my friend in Georgia while sitting in my far west Texas patio!! That I can’t believe how cool it is in June, but then again I had snow 4 times and freezes into may!! Texas has been cooling down for years.

I'm in Minnesota, my thermometer read 101.3 degrees Fahrenheit today. My greens are not happy.

I laughed because I live in Maryland and we are having our first "heat-wave" of the season and it isn't even summer yet :)

Meanwhile its 106 in Minnesota. Hmmm🤔

I believe basella alba is what we call Malabar spinach - not sure if Brazilian bertalha is actually the same thing.

@@davefreier7738 yes, same thing.

And so I did…. Three kinds of okra, two kinds of beans, five kinds of cucumbers, yellow squash, and zucchini. And then we got some rain, too! W00t!!

Thank you

Same here, Zone 3 here in northern Minnesota......June 1 and not before :(......makes for a short season 😢 Cole crops can go out earlier if started inside but have to be covered for hard frost.......I’m not sure which is worse, up north frozen tundra or down south heat 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

Yes! Please tell us!

Thanks for the question! Shannie is referring to Florida, as well as the hottest microclimates of southern Texas and southern California.

I already ordered Chinese Multicolor Spinach and Giant Blue Feather Leaf Lettuce for my Louisiana zone 9B in hopes I could have summer greens. Is it too late to plant? Should I use shade cloth?

@@hyacinthABC use shade cloth, or plant in a shady area of your garden. You can try summerspinach, or new Zealand spinach. They love the heat. Also malabar spinach, plus it doesn't mind the heat. It thrives in it.

@@RareSeedsBC and for your customers in the Virgin Islands! thank you for the “Deep South” planting info.

they are carhartts and shannie bought the patch of etsy and sewed it on!

@@RareSeedsBC super!! And thank you so much for taking the time to answer 🐛. Thanks for the info!! If I could find the exact Etsy seller for the patches, my clothes will be cool like Shannie’s. I’ve been trying to find them. I bet she doesn’t know she’s such a fashion icon 😄💕

If going by zones Shannie means zones 7 and up!

Okra, cucumber, zucchini and green beans are all pretty fast maturing. I'm in 6a (near Toronto, Canada) and directed sowed some cucumbers a few week ago since my previous cucumbers took some cold damage in late May. I've also been direct sowing okra, green beans and sunflower in the past couple weeks. I direct sowed some Valencia peanuts a couple weeks ago too, which have started sprouting now. My zucchinis are getting pretty big, I have some smaller ones I started later, but I'm still thinking of planting more in late June or early July for a late summer/early fall crop. I planted tomatoes, peppers and eggplants from garden center transplants a few weeks ago, but I also direct sowed a few Tiny Tim tomatoes last week that are now starting to sprout, so you can still start tomatoes now, most varieties take 50-70 days to mature. I recommend putting seeds in moist paper towel (with towel folded over/on both sides of the seed) and then putting that in a ziploc bag or plastic container to speed up germination, especially for slower germinating seeds like tomatoes and peppers. If they're seeds of warm weather plants (ex tomato, okra, summer squash, pepper, cucumber), then you can leave the ziploc bag in the sun or in partial shade so that it's warmer to help germinate them even faster. Imo the main things you're probably too late to start now are sweet potato, watermelon, cantaloupe and peanuts (and if you're starting from seed, it's probably too late for peppers and eggplant too).

@@Lochness19 thanks!!

Amaranth thrives in even my vegas desert heat, def not too late to plant :)

@@RL-wq8pn Thanks! Your answer was the only one I got. I hate planting things and watching them die.