Direct-seed melons, cucumbers, summer squash, corn, radishes, pumpkins, basil and annual flowers (marigolds, cosmos, sunflowers, zinnias, etc)
Purchase and plant all of the above as transplants if desired, plus impatiens plants
Plant your favorite summertime vegetables from transplants: tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, squash, corn, herbs, cucumbers, etc.
Harvest winter cabbage, lettuce, peas and green onions
Plant dahlia tubers and set out plants of verbena, coreopsis, coneflower, columbine, rudbeckia, verbena and other perennial plants
Trim off faded rose flowers by cutting down to a five-leaflet leaf that points outside away from the center of the plant at the height you'd like new flowers to emerge
Prune spring-flowering shrubs as desired: forsythia, flowering quince, flowering almond, lilacs, etc.
Weed, weed, weed!
