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What to grow NOW in May! This isn’t your typical video of what to sow this month. Instead, I’ve created an unmissable list of just 5 plants that I think you need in your gardens to give you abundance, tasty food, flowers, and all-year-round interest, without you getting overwhelmed! Don’t just take my word for it… joining me this month are Kevin from @epicgardening , Ruth from @theflowerwriter , and Liz from @LizZorab with their recommendations!

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0:00 Intro
0:32 What to Grow in May
1:25 Sowing Zinnias in May
3:56 Growing Peppers & Chillies in May
7:20 Planting Vinca in May
11:25 Growing Berberis in May
13:47 Sowing Beans in May
17:11 Outtro

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37 Comments

  3. Brad Miller

    Thanks, Niall, Kevin, Ruth and Liz!!
    Jimmy Nardello peppers are my favorite pepper. No diseases or pests, great yield and flavor, and you can prune it to your heart's desire! I pruned one to look like a tree on the plains of Africa, super tall and umbrella-like at the top. Grow some Jimmies!!

  6. Pickin' Thyme Flower Farm Tours & Art Adventures

    Your tulips are gorgeous! I have certainly enjoyed my tulips this spring. What a lovely garden you have! I love growing flowers, fruits, vegetables, and herbs together. Thanks for all of your wonderful advice on what to grow each month 🙂

  7. xszl

    Bought my house last year, already removed 2 barrels of Vinca thats spread allover the front garden.
    It climbs in other plants too.
    I'd almost say 'it spreads like mint', but mint is still a wee bit worse.

  8. Donna Mullins

    Love the Berberis. I checking now to see if it will grow in my area. Good video thanks Niall.
    When will we see update on your new garden?

  9. Spuds and Roses

    Great video and I'm with you on Zinnias 👏 except the slugs devoured a lot of them last season.awesome to have Kevin on your guest list 😍 Peppers ticked and Runner beans too 💚🌿

  13. Dwayne Baker

    Hi Niall. Oh man, what a great surprise, seeing Kevin from @epicgardening show up in your video. Both of us are in California. I've been one of his subscribers for a bit now. He's a little bit south of me as I"m in Los Angeles. It's always a treat seeing Liz! 🙂 Love when the two of you chat back and forth with one another when you're together. Thank you for another awesome video Niall. Take care.

  14. That British Homestead

    wow these tulips look lovely, i like the deep red, almost black. i love zinna, they get all the bees and the are amazing. i love that they will bloom for months

  18. Leslie Kendall

    I'm so glad Liz talked about how late runner beans from the previous years come up. I've always pulled mine up thinking they died.

  19. Donald Auguston

    Oh my stars! Berberis Darwinii is going to make it into my yard this year. I LOVE it. Thank you so much, Niall. Have a good week and stay safe up there. DA

  20. konijntje

    Please stop giving me Fahrenheit!!!!!!!!! Love what you are doing but not everyone lives in the US!!!!!!!!!!! Imma gonna have to leave here! Fahrenheit, and PERIWINKLE????? Jeez lowiese! I have been trying to eradicate both of those. PLEASE!

  22. Rosemary L

    Vinca is invasive in my area (PNW). I have been trying to eradicate it from my yard for years.

  27. Stephen Smith

    Unless you want a lifetime of digging stuff up, stick to Vinca Minor. Much smaller and less invasive. And, in my humble opinion, much prettier.

  29. onefield

    wince I love your guests, but… vinca?!? Nooooo! I have been battling the periwinkle (vinca major) vines that the prior owner planted since I moved into my home 7 years ago. By battling, I'm talking about literally digging up beds, and sifting out the numerous roots of this pernicious, aggressive vine. It's still growing back. The roots go a foot deep, by the way (I'm in zone 7 with clay soils). It's also coming up as seedlings everywhere around the property, as is the wisteria vine that the prior owner allowed to escape the garden.

    Invasive, tenacious vines are such a nuisance! Vinca will sneak in under your other plants where you won't even see it growing for months, until it suddenly mounds up to smother your desired plants.

    Please, please don't plant this menace.

  31. Mahereen Tazree

    USDA Zone 8, looking into my garden now:
    1. Zinnia ✔
    2. Peppers ✔
    3. Alyssum instead of Vinca
    4. Look at that breathtaking orange shrub 😍🤩!!
    5. Long beans and flat beans

    Thanks for the Video Niall 😊

  32. Tec Mow

    Your tulip and forget-me-not combo in the orchard is stunning 😍 What an all star cast too! 🤩

  33. Esther van der Graft

    I would only purchase Berberis as a gift for a not well liked person: the thorns, the endless cutting back. Perfect as a privacyhedge though 😂

  36. ICARUSWNC

    Definitely no on the thuggy vincas. Same all consuming manner as english ivy. Tough to remove.

  37. Vee De Bee

    Zinnias have been really rubbish to germinate here, I started 3 trays so far – maybe they aren’t warm enough, I’ll try again!

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