Expand the categories below to learn more about what you need to do this month. Vegetables Continue to plant heat-loving herbs including basil, Mexican tarragon, and rosemary. Pinch back basil and tarragon regularly to prevent flowering and enhance branching. Make trellises or use stakes for tomatoes, cucumbers, pole beans and other climbing crops. Keep an eye out for stinkbugs, leaf-footed bugs, bean beetles, tomato and tobacco hornworms, tomato fruitworms, flea beetles, c

Expand the categories below to learn more about what you need to do this month. Vegetables Keep a watchful eye out for cabbage worms, potato beetles, bean beetles, blister beetles, corn earworm, cucumber beetle, and squash vine borer in the garden. Good insecticides for the garden include carbaryl, Bt-dust (for caterpillars), spinosad, diatomaceous earth (for aphids), and pyrethrum dust. Control weeds, too, because they compete for resources (light, water, nutrients) needed

Expand the categories below to learn more about what you need to do this month. Vegetables As soil temperatures consistently get into the low 60s, you can seed things like beans and corn. When soil temperatures get into and above the mid-sixties to the low 70s, think about crops like tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, squash and melons. Watch for aphids on tender growth such as new cabbage leaves. Wash off with a strong water spray or try something like diatomaceous earth (DE) and