The Blooming Joy Journal
June Garden Tour: What's Growing in My Vegetable and Cut Flower Garden
An Late Spring Update In the Garden
Early June is one of my favorite times in the garden. Spring crops are still producing, summer flowers are beginning to bloom, and every day seems to bring new growth.
In this month's garden tour, I'm taking you on a walk through my Middle Tennessee vegetable and cut flower garden to show you what's thriving, what's beginning to bloom, and what I'm looking forward to harvesting in the coming weeks.
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https://youtu.be/aUsSIOROWToIn This Garden Tour
During this tour, you'll see:
- Seasonal vegetables currently growing in the garden
- Early summer cut flowers beginning to bloom
- Herbs and companion plants
- Garden successes and challenges
- What I'm harvesting right now
- What seeds I'm saving
- What I'm excited about for the weeks ahead
What's Blooming
The garden is beginning to fill with color as more flowers come into production. Some of my favorite blooms right now include:
- Calendula
- Bachelor Buttons
- Snapdragons
- Strawflowers
- Early summer flowers like Zinnias just beginning to open
These flowers not only provide beautiful bouquets, but also attract pollinators and beneficial insects throughout the garden.
Seed Shopping
Many of the flowers and vegetables featured in this garden tour were grown from Botanical Interests seeds, one of my favorite seed companies for home gardeners and cut flower growers. If you're inspired to grow any of these varieties in your own garden, you can shop through the seed links included in this post. As a Botanical Interests partner, I'm excited to offer my readers 5% off their purchase with code BLOOMINGJOY at checkout. Thank you for supporting Blooming Joy Flower Co. and helping me continue to create gardening education and resources.
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What's Growing in the Vegetable Garden
The vegetable garden continues to thrive as we transition into summer. Watching the garden evolve from tiny seedlings into productive plants is one of the most rewarding parts of the growing season.
Before I filmed this garden tour, I harvested garlic scapes! Garlic scapes are produced from hard neck garlic. If I had left the scapes on, they would have produced a flower. Although this would have been pretty, letting the garlic flower takes away from the garlic head growth, which is why its a good idea to snap the scape (flower) off!
I am using the scapes in pesto, butter compounds and in family favorites like lasagna!
Vegetables I am harvesting to eat currently:
The garden is full of winter and early Spring planted vegetables. I especially love harvesting these each day to sauté in eggs for breakfast.
Shop My Favorite Garden Supplies
Many of the tools, harvest supplies, garden accessories, and flower-growing products I use throughout the season can be found in my Amazon storefront. If you're looking for recommendations on seed starting supplies, harvest tools, garden essentials, and my favorite products for growing cut flowers, you can browse my curated list here:
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Watch the Full Garden Tour
I hope you'll join me for a walk through the garden and see what's growing this month. If you enjoy garden tours, be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel for future updates throughout the season.
What is growing best in your garden right now? I'd love to hear in the comments below.