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June 2025 Pulaski County Home Horticulture Newsletter
Please remember to REGISTER for the programs you’d like to attend by scanning the QR codes or clicking on the graphic.
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***PULASKI CO EXTENSION SERVICE OFFICE NEW ADDRESS IS
90 UK EXTENSION BLVD, SOMERSET KY, 42503
OR
BEHIND FARM CREDIT OFF THE 914 BYPASS***
June 10 — Elderberry Production, 6:30pm, Madison Co Extension office.
June 11 — 365 Days of Gardening: Cool to Warm transitions, 5:30pm, Pulaski Co Extension office. Room B
June 16 — Lake Cumberland Beekeepers Association meeting, 6:30pm, Pulaski Co Extension office. Room A
June 17 — Terrible to Terrific Tomatoes, 5:30pm, Pulaski Co Extension office. Room C.
S A V E T H E D A T E S:
July 22 — Composting 3 Ways, 5:30pm
August 7 — Invasive Plant Management, 5:30pm
August 21 — Concrete Leaf Casting, 5:30pm
October 24-25 — Beginner Bee School (in-person)
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Master Gardeners will be at Kids Day at Woodstock Lavender Farm in June. They are seed bomb-making geniuses!
A summer picnic is also coming up in June. If you become a Master Gardener, one thing you’ll find out is they are great cooks!
They’ll also be weeding at The Neighborhood throughout the summer.
Master Gardeners are just starting work on the new demo beds at the new Extension office. We hope you’ll drop by and take a look mid-summer!
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June Best Days
Killing signs rule on June 18-19 & June 27-28. Ember days are June 11, 13-14. DO NOT PLANT DURING KILLING SIGNS. Make your own mind up about planting on an Ember Day.
Best days for planting above ground crops are June 6-8, 9-10, & 25-26.
Best days to plant below ground crops are June 11-15, 16-17, 20-21, & 24.
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Best days for specifically beans and peas are June 22-23.
Best days to plant flowers are June 1-5. This means don’t plant any veggies during this time.
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| Transplants of tomatoes, peppers, and any other warm-season vegetable can be planted outside in June. |
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| Mosquitoes…ugh. To reduce breeding sites, UK recommends disposing of anything that can hold water (tires, buckets, plastics, etc), cleaning debris from gutters, and changing water in bird baths. Use Bt mosquito dunks to kill larvae. More info here. |
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| Watch for bagworms! If you had an infestation in the past, you’ll probably have them again. If so, proactively apply an insecticide containing Bt (Dipel, Thuricide) during the first 2 weeks of June. During June, bagworms are extremely small (see pic) and look like mini-ice cream cones. |
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| Keep roses deadheaded to keep them blooming. |
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| Brown rot of peach is out there now! These infections can lay dormant until the peach matures. As sugar content increases and the fruit softens, it becomes very susceptible to the disease. Captan is the spray of choice to control this disease. More info here. |
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| Start seeds for fall crops of broccoli, brussels sprouts, and cauliflower in early to mid-June. These will need to go in the garden in July for a fall harvest. |
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| Sow seeds of beans, melons, squash, cucumbers, sweet corn, okra, heat-tolerant lettuce, and carrots in June outside. These can be planted successively every two weeks. Be sure to look at ‘days to harvest’. |
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| The mowers will start up this month. Be sure to cut your tall fescue high (3.5 to 4”) — this will discourage crabgrass seedlings. And sharpen the blade!! |
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| Spring-blooming shrubs should be pruned after they finish blooming. Some of these include forsythia, lilac, flowering quince, magnolias, and witch hazels. |
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It’s Always a Good Time to Soil Test
Soil quality determines your success as a gardener. Pulaski County residents get 25 soil analyses for FREE. Soil probes are also available to loan out. Call our office for more details 606-679-6361
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Pine Straw Available
Lake Cumberland Master Gardeners have a new load of pine straw! It is now available in the barn at the new Pulaski Co Extension office at 90 UK Extension Blvd, Somerset KY 42503.
Master Gardeners will be selling pine straw on Fridays from 8am to noon through the month of June.
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Recipe of the Month
Find some fresh broccoli at a farmers’ market.
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Non-Discrimination Policy
The Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment is an Equal Opportunity Organization with respect to education and employment and authorization to provide research, education information and other services only to individuals and institutions that function without regard to economic or social status and will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnic origin, national origin, creed, religion, political belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, marital status, genetic information, age, veteran status, physical or mental disability or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity.
Reasonable accommodation of disability may be available with prior notice. Program information may be made available in languages other than English.
Inquiries regarding compliance with Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Educational Amendments, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and other related matter should be directed to
Equal Opportunity Office, Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Kentucky, Room S-105, Agriculture Science Building, North Lexington, Kentucky 40546,
the UK Office of Institutional Equity and Equal Opportunity, 13 Main Building, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0032 or
US Department of Agriculture, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20250-9410
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