In this video I will go over my May garden checklist to give you the garden jobs for May. I will cover Planting, Sowing, Pruning, Cleaning, and more.
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33 Comments
Kingston, Arkansas…we have gone from zone 7a to zone 6a just from Temps the last couple of years
Huntsville Texas here. Which is 60 mim drive north of Houston. There is a big difference between last year to this year. I love gardening year round. I’m from Indiana. Cam t wait for the drip irrigation. 👍
Calgary , Alberta Canada Zone 3b/4a Our Spring is pretty much normal. Won’t plant out tomatoes and peppers till end of May beginning of June. My cold crops are slowly emerging. I wait till the over night temps are consistently above 5C .
3 weeks behind average for southeast Houston area
I'm in Northwest Louisiana
We are still below freezing at night where I'm at. I watch my planting schedule pop up on my personal calendar, and I have to keep rescheduling! And now I'm in the process of moving across country, and I see that the new house has perfect weather for everything I wanted to plant, but I'll lose a year for planting from seed! If I have any energy left on the other end of this move, I'll have to spend a small fortune to buy everything. Weird weather this year- it started freezing in my area in October, so fair to say it's been strange for a while. Looking forward to "normal" weather and actual seasons again!
I am in McKinleyville CA. No dandelions yet in my yard. Growing this year is quite a bit different.
Love your tips, thank you for all your effort. We're in North end of SLO county California, central coast. Mid 40s at night and mid 60s during the day. We've got peppers cucumbers squash and tomatoes. Doing good so far. Last yr. I lost so many young starters to ear wigs. Took my chickens on a earwig hunt. They made quite a difference! Your idea of oil, soy sauce in a tuna can also helped allot. Take care.
Been cooler here in north texas and my garden is taking off
Hello Brian. We are just the opposite here in Lady Lake, Florida, zone 9B. We have had a hotter than normal spring. I have had volunteer watermelon plants come up in last years patch. Already have set fruit. We are very dry still. Summer rains have just begun. You get hot and dry in the summer. We get hot and humid. Same zone, but different conditions. Love, love, love your book! I have learned SO much from you. Thank you!
I live in Upper Michigan 4b. Last frost date is May 28. Nobody plants til after memorial day.
I'm trying to turn my ground at my cabin garden today. hardiness zone 3b or 4a. I'm on the border. at home is 4b. it is snowing the past 2 days. my carrot patch has 6 inches of ice 4 inches down. ice left the lake Wednesday. I'm early but it's never to early here. we usually plant potatoes may 24, and everything else june 21st when the sun crosses the line. 18 hours of daylight then. happy gardening.
Patio/container gardener in Titusville,FL. So far unusual weather right now. So we will see how it goes.🌴
Watching from Las Vegas NV
Here in Murphy NC we have stayed in the 30s at night mainly, we've had maybe a few nights in the low 40s very strange here in the south. I feel so behind. Thanks for all the video's!
Washington state, zone 8b. We're almost 2 weeks behind schedule on night time temps. Sick and tired of putting all my veggie starts in & out the house. I am using your book this year for figuring out rotation and companions:)
I'm in Texas, 8b. I've been harvesting summer squash for a couple weeks now, my tomatoes are finally setting fruit, and I was pulling my cool season stuff with extreme prejudice this morning as they are all showing signs of definitely being done. My okra and sunflowers are being really slow because our weather has been cooler than normal (not complaining at all).
I’m outside Abilene, Texas…having a strange year! Waited until we got past 40 degrees and now it’s in the high 90’s!!! Hot and very dry here!!
Watching from the netherlands, i think zone 7b if i remember correctly. i have most if not all plants either in my tiny greenhouse or in the ground outside. I am currently working on a raised gardenbed which is going to be occupied with unions, herbs, a melon that will fall down over the ground and whatever else may fit. This will bring my planting ground to 14m2.
hi from socal! at what point do you stop follicular feeding?
Iowa! Des Moines area. My tomatoes are in the garden!
Here in metro Atlanta, I'm about 2 to 3 weeks behind in planting prodigious peppers. Just has been too cold at night. It got down to 42 degrees a few nights ago IN MAY!! Damn this global warming! 😂
Hatfield Pa. Near Philadelphia.
Bryan, I am gardening several miles west of you and I can confirm all that about the weather.
My tomatoes and basils are sitting in the garden, just looking around and doing nothing. My MANY pepper and cucumber seedlings are not yet ready for planting. Sitting in a small outside cover and complaining about cold nights. I planted squash, but they are lazy and melons are still inside.
Okra seeds are still in the original package. Hopefully next week the night temp will rise above 50 F and CA spring will start. ??
Oh – pole beans reseeded in my last year bed, where they are not supposed to be, and they are growing like crazy.
Hi Brian, 👋 I'm watching you from Israel, in the eastern Mediterranean. A climate very similar to the climate you garden in.
Western Kentucky. Zone 7.
I'm watching from New Port Richey, Fl. zone 9A. We are in a drought right now. No rain. But nights are 65-73 deg. I'm strictly doing container gardening. I've already picked my string beans, carrots, eggplants, Roma, grape, patio tumblers, cherry tomatoes. etc. Peppers are large and ready to be picked. Had a great onion harvest for the first time ever, from seed, because I watched your onion planting videos. Thank you for that. Have to get everything done before the "death hot" heat and humidity kicks in next month.
Funny story. Last summer I was searching how to do drop irrigation because it is so intimidating…..at first. And I came across your video at your old house. You made it so simple and easy to understand. I subscribed to your channel that day! I have learned so much from you that I took the plunge and expanded my garden with two new 4'x8' beds, took out the old 4'x4' short beds and made 2 new 3'x6'x18" beds. I'm also expanding into grapes, raspberries, blueberries and blackberries. Thank you for sharing all of your knowledge and experience! I can't wait to get more plants in the ground here in Reno NV!
With drip irrigation – do not put the drip directly on to the plant stem area. The roots grow outward. Place the drip outward. If you leave the drip at the stem you will create stem rot, the roots have already grown through the inner area (and won't reverse direction to get the water – inside of de-nutritioned soil). So put the drips out to what would be the biggest perimeter of the drip zone of the adult leaves and this will provide proper irrigation to your plants – and stop other irrigation and plant diseases.
I'm from northern NY 5a and have been gardening in east Tennessee zone 7a and my 3rd season here. I'm still learning the longer growing season and how I can use it more efficiently to get more produce. The first year was pretty good, last year not so much, and hoping for a great one this year.
Just north of San Antonio, TX (8b). Our last historic frost date is Mar 8 but I typically wait until the end of March to plant summer veggies. 48 tomato plants this year (tallest is now 3’11”) and 15 peppers. Last year we had rough drought conditions and my 10 tomatoes produced only about 2 dozen fruits. Based on the rain we’ve gotten so far this Spring I’ll be swimming in tomatoes by June.
COLD, WET AND LATE in NE OH. that fairly well sums it up! About 1-2 weeks late. Watching the 10 day forecast to put my overgrown tomatoes and hopefully peppers out once averages are 70+/50+ in the next week or so. today is transplant day in larger containers, few and far between. Using extra large peat pots I don't like but better than nothing. Just drew my container garden pots in their places, now studying your book so I know what to put in all of them to surround my beans and carrots. Cheers and thanks always for great content!
Watching from Queen Creek, AZ.