Gardening Jobs to Get Done In May
The month of May brings dreams and aspirations about hot weather, ideal for gardening and spending meaningful moments outdoors. Maybe you can sit by the fire, grill, or newly built clay stove and wait for some tasty treat from the heat. Think about everything you can plant and sow in May
May can be a busy month for gardeners as "weeds" sometimes tend to overtake new seedlings. Before going deep into the season, make sure you have at least a temporary plan.
If you are thinking about investing in a garden project, now is the time to do it. Do not wait another minute! Keep at least a spare sheet to keep track of when and where you sowed your seeds. It will be very useful later.
1. Plant window boxes with decorative flowers
Once all the dangers of frost have passed, you can plant plenty of flowers, vegetables, and seeds. There are so many plants to choose from, that it can be hard to determine.
Make quick decisions based on color, shape, and texture. If you can not start all your plants from seed (let's be true - who has so much time) you can find a variety of options ready to transplant in garden centers.
Whether your window cabinets are edible or completely decorative, you will get the most pleasure out of them. On the one hand, you can attract some insects, which is a small, simple, and beneficial process.
2. Weeding and feeding
Set the scene: Seeds germinate throughout the gardens and grow to new heights. Enter the rain: very soon, not only your seedlings but also weeds. More than a few, a lot of them. If left unchecked, your garden will turn green within a month and your garden crops will lose "weeds" in the sea.
Love or hate them, weeds will always appear where the soil is disturbed. It's not your own fault, it's how nature works. She always tries to hide as much as possible.
3. Start mulching where needed
Mulch is a real way to control weeds. Even if you do not have enough mulch to cover your entire garden, you can cover around their base as soon as the plants start to grow. Pumpkin, zucchini, and squash also like to cover the floor. When the plants reach a height of about 6, mulch generously around the site. This will help them get everything they need from the soil.
You can also use this time to mulch your garden paths.
4. Start or continue with your container gardening
Before you even think about window boxes, you may have imagined growing food. No matter how small the space you have, you can always grow anything, even one thing, in containers.
Of course, pots are not suitable for everything like corn, sunflower, or trailing squash, but they are wonderful for many garden crops.
Plants grown in a common container include tomatoes, peppers, herbs, strawberries, radishes, onions, chard, eggplant, and more.
Related Reading: Container Vegetable Garden: 30 Edible Foods In Pots & Why You Should Make It
5. Divide and plant perennials
Are your day flowers starting to grow? If they appear too close together, dig them out and separate them well in your place.
The same can be said for hosts that are usually separated in late summer, however, they can be dug up at any time from spring to autumn as long as the soil is moist. So, if you didn’t get around to it last year, you can get it now.
6. Fertilize your garden and perennials
Not every garden needs compost, and no garden needs it now.
But, I mention it here to remind you that you need to take great care of both your plants and your soil.
Instead of using fertilizers randomly, you can use this time to examine the soil and find out if it has any nutrients, or if it stores too much. If you are deficient in some multivitamins, why take a multivitamin?
7. Set up your garden support
Think about your garden plan for a minute and think about whether you have all the support (s) you need to implement it.
We are not talking about emotional support here. It comes from the positive relationships around you and from within.
Tomato cages, crosswise Imagine the knocking, the fences; Those kinds of supports. Climbing structures on plants.
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