To help make your yard and garden the best they can be this year, consider these tips from Utah State University Extension’s Gardeners Almanac.
Pests and Problems:
- Monitor vegetables and herbs for earwig damage.
- Protect ash trees with a registered chemical to prevent lilac/ash borer damage.
- Use control measures in apples and pears to reduce wormy fruit. For specific timing, see the Utah Pests Advisories.
- Treat for powdery mildew on apples beginning when leaves are emerging (at 1/2 inch green) until June.
- Watch for insect pests in raspberries from mid-May thru early June. For specific timing, see our Utah Pests Advisories.
- Control the Western cherry fruit fly when fruit changes color from straw color to pink to avoid maggots in cherries.
- Control the peach twig borer in peaches, nectarines, and apricot trees. For specific timing see our Utah Pests Advisories.
- Monitor for damaging turfgrass insects. In areas previously damaged, consider a preventative (systemic) insecticide.
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Consider taking an online gardening course. Courses cover everything from container vegetable gardening and creating the perfect soil to planting trees and controlling pests. They are geared to both beginning and professional gardeners. Use code “Sunshine” for 33% off gardening courses. Explore more gardening tips on Extension’s yard and garden website.
Click here to see a video of June gardening tips.