One
of the most difficult tasks in your May Vegetable Garden Plans
will be to start things at the proper time, and yet the success of your
May Vegetable Garden Plans depends on the thoroughness with which
it is done.
The following month by month gardening tips for operations, will not
only serve as a timely reminder of things to be done, but as the basis
for such a check list. Preparation is very important in all matters of
your May Vegetable Garden Plans.
May Vegetable Garden Plans
Frequent, shallow cultivation!
Firm seeds in dry soil.
Plant wax beans, lima beans, pole beams, melons, corn, etc., and
successive crops of lettuce, radish, etc.
Top-dress growing crops that need special manure (such as nitrate of
soda on onions). Prune tomatoes, and cut out some foliage for extra
early tomatoes. Toward end of month set celery and late cabbage. Also
sow beans, beets, corn, etc., for early fall crops. Spray where
necessary. Allow asparagus to grow to tops.
Fruit. Attend to spraying fruit trees and currants and gooseberries.
Make pot-layers of
strawberries for July setting.
May Vegetable Garden Plans | Growing Garden Vegetables