May 2, 2025 • 16 mins
The garden awakens fully in May, transforming into a hub of activity that demands both attention and strategy. This explosion of growth creates the perfect environment for sowing an impressive variety of seeds, making it arguably the most productive month in the gardening calendar.
With beds filling up rapidly, lawns growing vigorously, and perennials emerging from their winter dormancy, May presents an opportunity to maximize your garden's potential through thoughtful planning. The dramatic shift in weather conditions from previous weeks brings a surge in plant development – combining recent rainfall with increasing temperatures to create ideal growing conditions. However, this acceleration also benefits unwanted visitors, making weed management a crucial priority.
The seed sowing guide focuses on strategic planting that extends your harvests well beyond summer into autumn and winter. While certain long-season crops like tomatoes, peppers and melons have passed their optimal sowing window (better purchased as established plants now), numerous vegetables remain prime candidates for May planting. These include successional crops like salad leaves, spring onions and radishes that provide continuous summer harvests, alongside winter staples like leeks, beetroot, winter cabbages and purple sprouting broccoli that need starting now for cold-season eating. For warm-season crops including cucumbers, courgettes, sweetcorn and pumpkins, early May represents the final optimal sowing period.
The practical guidance offered extends beyond mere planting schedules to include maintenance tips that prevent problems before they develop. A simple hoeing routine on dry days eliminates seedling weeds with minimal effort, preventing the overwhelming task they become if left unchecked. Whether you're an experienced gardener or relative newcomer, these timely interventions make May's abundance manageable rather than overwhelming. Share your May planting plans and success stories online or reach out directly with questions – the gardening community thrives on shared knowledge and mutual support through this vibrant growing season.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
how's it going, everybody, and welcome to
episode 274 of master, my gardenpodcast.
Now, this week's episode beingthe first friday of may, we're
doing our usual seed sowingguide, and I suppose may is, I
suppose, probably the busiestmonth in the garden.
It's the month where growthtypically comes together all
(00:32):
your beds are full, lawns aregrown, perennials are peeping up
, weeds are starting to startingto grow as well, and so it
tends to be the busiest month inthe garden.
It's quite a busy month on thefront as well.
Certain seeds will have droppedoff the list this month, but
the majority remain there andagain, it's one of the.
(00:52):
It's one of the months wherethe the most variety of seeds
can be sown.
It's as we record this one.
It's a huge difference to lastweek.
So last week I spoke aboutprotecting seedlings and young
plants.
You know from the harsh weatherthat we had a week or 10 days
(01:14):
ago and at the time of recording, it's a totally different scene
, you know.
So a few days later, it'stotally different again, and as
we enter into may, it's reallywarm and dry and yeah, with all
the, with all the moisture andall the rain that fell last week
and now the heat, growth hasreally started.
(01:36):
So we have an explosion ofgrowth at the moment and it's uh
, yeah, it's a, it's a, it's a.
There's, as I say, lots thatcan be sown.
And you see, you know, asidefrom the sowing, all of the
garden shows are getting going.
This weekend is the Festival ofGardens and Nature.
(01:57):
That's in Ballantubbard House.
That's on this weekend.
Some amazing speakers at thatfantastic you on this weekend,
some amazing speakers at thathave fantastic, you know
fantastic array of speakers atthat.
At the end of the month we'llbe Bloom will be kicking off.
I might chat a little bit moreabout that in the coming weeks.
And, yeah, there's last weekendwas the Clare Garden Festival
(02:19):
and you know it seems to beplant fairs.
I Kill.
Gardens have a plant fair onSaturday, I think.
The following Sunday there'sthe Mount Congreve rare and
special plant sale.
So there's a huge amount ofgardening events kicking off now
.
May is the traditional monthfor all of those, so you can
(02:42):
imagine there's lots going on.
So, on the sowing front, we'regoing to go through them, sort
of group them together a littlebit as well.
And you know this, this listhasn't changed a wild amount
from last month.
A couple of things will havedropped off a couple of things.
They're going to need reallylong seasons.
They have dropped off.
You know we're running out oftime for those things.
(03:02):
Like you know, in terms ofsowing, getting a little bit
late for sowing of tomatoes,it's because really you want to
be getting them into the tunnelat this stage.
So if, if you haven't sowed, orif you're held up for any
reason or some of your seedlingsfailed, just go at this stage
and buy plants.
There's no, no big deal in that.
And things like peppers againneed a long season and should be
(03:25):
planted into the tunnels.
Basically, now, once it's warmenough and you know again, if
you don't have seeds, so on ofthose it's a little bit late
you're going to be up against itto get a harvest from them.
So get some good, strong plants, get them in, tend to them well
over the first few weeks, getthem established and then you'll
have.
You'll have crops quite easily,quickly, and melon is another
(03:46):
one's too late for sowing that.
So you know there's a few,there's a few bits and pieces
and then there's a good few onthe list that this is going to
be the last chance for sowingand we really are looking at the
earlier part of the month forsowing.
So just to start off, we'relooking again, you know, with
your, your successional crops.
So pretty much every monthspring onion is going to be on
it.
We're still sowing, you know,the standard white lisbon or
(04:09):
some of the summer spring,summer varieties.
They're.
They're perfect for now.
Summer salad leaves, a mix ofsalad leaves.
I have a really good one sewnwhich is quinoa rocket.
There's what else is in it.
There's a lettuce in it.
You know there's four or fivedifferent types and that's a
brilliant one to sow.
Just get a little bit ofvariety in it.
Perennial rocket is a superbone.
(04:32):
Just an hour ago I harvestedperennial rocket.
That's there all the time it'sin flower but you can still
harvest.
You know leaves off it that are.
They're a little bit strongerthan the standard rocket but
they're beautiful and just.
I'll take the flowers off themover over next week or two but
it will continue and next yearit'll continue and it's just
(04:54):
always there, pretty much aharvest off it all year round.
So perennial rocket is abrilliant one if you can get it.
Spinach is another one, againsuccessionally sown, that you
will notice now, especially withtemperatures that it's going to
run to seed quite quickly.
So you want to be harvesting asquick as possible, using it up
and then doing small and regularsowing.
So every couple of weeks you'redoing a sowing of it.
(05:15):
Radish is another one againwill grow really, really quickly
.
You'll get harvest quitequickly off it and you, you know
, within a few weeks of thistime of year you're going to be
eating radish, fresh radishlettuce, just the standard heads
of lettuce.
Again, I don't do a huge amountof sowing.
It's on the sowing guide everymonth.
I don't sow lettuce every month.
I'll sow it a couple of times ayear because I will do utilize
(05:37):
sort of leaf harvesting asopposed to head harvesting.
So, for example, again atlunchtime I had some lovely
curly headed lettuce and I'm notsure the variety, but a lovely
curly headed green lettuce andit was delicious.
But all I'm doing is breakingoff the outside leaves and
that's going to give a harvestfor next couple of months.
But if you know, if you want toharvest heads, you just need to
(05:59):
continue to sow to ensure thatyou have.
You know that you have acontinuity of of crops over the
over the coming months.
Then a couple that are kind ofyour last chance to sow.
Leaks is one of those.
So at this stage you're goingto be switching to an autumn
stroke winter variety.
You'll make your sowing now,you'll plant out in a month's
(06:19):
time and then that's going togive you one of these late
harvests.
So this is, you know, what wetalk about.
Quite a lot is utilizing thatspace that we have available and
that we're getting our harvestright through to autumn and into
winter and even through toearly spring, and some of what
we'll talk about today will bespecifically aimed at that.
So leeks, switching to a wintervariety, and kind of last
(06:41):
sowing earlier part of thismonth.
Next one is beetroot.
Again, a couple of sowings ayear of beetroot will do the
trick, but in the month of May.
If you get a sowing now, thenthat's going to be again a
really late harvest Late, yeah,end of autumn, early winter, and
will store at that stage aswell, even in the ground.
(07:02):
So a good sowing of beetroot atthis time of year is going to
give you a, you know, nicelongevity in in harvest, other
things that we can be sown, andyou know, just in terms of the
brassica family, cabbage.
So at this stage we're going tobe switching to the autumn,
winter varieties, so savoy, redcabbage, those type things, and
you're going to be, you're goingto be again.
(07:23):
You're looking at a harvestdown the line, especially with
the longer term ones like redcabbage and savoy.
They're going to be slow to.
They're going to be slow tosort of head up and and and be
mature, but then you can stillcontinue to sow the likes of
greyhound and, you know, thepointed head lettuce.
They'll give you a much quickerharvest.
You know, over over the comingmonths, purple sprout and
(07:50):
broccoli last chance kind ofthis month to be sowing those
because they need a really longseason.
If you, you know, if you get asowing done now, you'll get to
plant them out in a month's timeand then that's going to give
you a harvest around Christmastime and into January, february
of next year.
Really worthwhile crop, becauseyou'll find that purple sprout
and broccoli at that stage isjust a kind of a welcome boost
(08:11):
of fresh greens and they'll bereally, really tasty, quite
abundant as well.
The calabrese you just reallyget one head of broccoli off it
and then you just cut it off andfor the space and the time I a
little bit of a a waste of time,to be honest with you, whereas
something like purple sprout andbroccoli, you get just much
(08:31):
more off it.
It'll continue to hurt, you'llbe able to continue to harvest
over a good few weeks and itjust gives more, more for the
space that you're giving it.
It is a long-term crop, though,so it's going to take quite a
bit of time to get to that stage.
Calabrese I mentioned yeah,they're very tasty, obviously,
but I just think they take up alot of space, quite slow, and
(08:52):
then the the reward at the endis a little bit, a little bit
less than what it should be.
Cauliflower is another one thatreally falls into that bracket.
Cauliflower is beautiful, it'sactually one of my favorite
vegetables, but the reality isthat it takes up a lot of space
in your beds and then all youget is one harvest, and it tends
to come at once.
(09:13):
So I find calabrese andcauliflower, just you don't get
enough out of it.
I grow them, um, I love them,but just, you know, if you're,
if you're, limited on space atall, don't, don't bother with
those uh turnip.
So again, continuing with themilan purple tops or the
snowballs, those type, you know,small, small turnips you can
(09:34):
continue to sew them at themoment and swedes this kind of
last chance this month to to sewswedes.
And so, yeah, they're going togive you a harvest again through
the autumn and winter.
So this is why we continue tosow, this is why we have this,
the monthly sewing guidesbecause you know you can get out
, you can get all your sewingdone early, fill up your beds,
but you do need to be lookingahead, looking to keep those
(09:58):
beds full, to keep somethingcoming towards the kitchen, you
know, in the depths of thewinter and in and into next
spring.
Another one that you can sowthis month is Pak Choy a really
good one That'll be.
You know that'll give you aharvest quite quickly.
So you'll be harvesting thosein.
Well, now, may, probablylooking at July, august time
(10:19):
harvest, but again, you can sowthis later on as well.
We're also looking at lastsowings of certain of the
certain ones of the of the thewarmer type crops, the ones that
need heat.
So, for example, cucumber again, for me, I won't be doing
sewing a cucumber this month.
All you need is one or twoplants.
(10:40):
I already have those, so Idon't need to sew anymore.
Courgette the same again, exactsame for me.
Won't be sewing this month, butyou can earlier in the month,
and the cucumbers early in themonth, and you are looking at,
um, you know, again, one or twoplants is going to do and going
to going to solve all yourrequirements.
So you don't need to keepsowing that sweet corn.
(11:02):
Very much the last chance tosow that, you know, do it in the
earlier part of the month andit's a.
You know it's a great crop tohave french beans.
You can direct sow those at thisstage and they'll give you
crops, whether it's the bushones, the little compact ones or
the climbing ones.
You can sow them and sow themdirectly Now.
(11:22):
You can also pot them or sowthem into a pot.
That's an easy way of doing itas well if you want to continue
to utilize your propagation area.
But at this stage we can startdirect sowing quite a bit.
Um, celery, again, can be sownthis month.
Peas can be sown this month andanother two now that are
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definitely into the last month,pumpkin and squash.
So they require a long, a longseason.
I find that the squashparticularly because of the
length of season required and Ithink because of the lack of
sunlight over the last couple ofsummers.
They are hit and miss.
So you can, you can have quitesuccessful years and then other
(12:03):
years not so much.
But pumpkins generally,generally speaking, are
successful and squash can besuccessful, is successful a lot
of the time time.
But you know, sometimes it canbe a little bit hit and miss, so
just watch out for that.
But either ways, sowing from asowing perspective, it's it's
early, early in the month, ifyou can at all.
Some of the herbs we're stillsowing, and some of them
(12:23):
actually would be sowing kind ofyou know, for the first time or
it's the first time that we cansuccessfully eat, successfully
and easily sow them.
So coriander, chervil, dill,parsley, pretty much any of
those can be sown this month.
Basil I haven't sown any yetbut I will sow it now this month
.
So basil definitely needs theheat and do one good sowing of
(12:48):
basil and it'll do you all year.
You don't need to keep sowingof basil and it'll do you all
year.
You don't need, you don't needto keep sowing that.
Other vegetables still haven'tgot my carrots, my parsnip, so I
have my carrot.
So I haven't got my second, mylater variety of carrot.
So but again, hopefully thisweekend I'll get that done.
So carrots and parsnips to besown, and parsnips, just one
(13:08):
sowing carrots.
This will be the last of twosowings that I do and yeah, I'll
be harvesting those rightthrough into the winter.
And that's kind of the overalllist of seeds.
Still loads of time to be sowingannual flowers and you can
direct sow a lot of thoseoutside now.
So you know, things like poppycan be sown outside, wildflowers
(13:31):
still perfect time to sow them.
You're looking at.
Loads of annual flowersbasically can be sown and direct
sown at this stage of the year.
So once the temperatures are up, which they are now quite warm
the bit of moisture that thatcame last week.
It's a great chance to getannuals, annuals into the ground
and other jobs that we can bedoing.
(13:52):
Still time to sow potatoes, ifyou haven't done already.
Secondarily, some main cropsit's probably gone a little bit
late for the very earlyvarieties.
But secondarily, these maincrops, no problem at all.
And then, on top of that, whatyou will see coming into into
your beds at this stage, no digbeds, etc is you'll start to see
the weeds peeping up after thatspell of rain last week.
(14:15):
So the moisture and nowfollowed by the heat.
So, in order to stay on top ofthat, just get a really dry day
which, for example, today is areally dry day with lots of
sunshine get a good hoe, like aoscillating hoe or a dutch hoe,
and lightly hoe all thoseseedling weeds on a dry day, and
they'll just crisp up in acouple of hours and that'll be
(14:36):
your your weeding done for acouple of months.
And it's really easy to do iton a dry day like that, so
you're not digging the ground,you're just giving a little
scratch, killing off the root.
It'll get, as I said, crisp upon a day like today and it
really makes it easy.
But you do need to keep on topof the weeds because if they
start to get ahead of you nowwhich they'll do overnight
nearly at this time of the yearthen it's a sort of a bigger
(14:59):
battle to try and get it backunder control.
So any weeds appearing in yourvegetable beds, just get on top
of them quickly.
But there's quite a bit we canbe sown.
Still loads to be doing.
It's, generally speaking, a very, very busy month.
(15:20):
As I said, there's yeah,there's, there's, there's lots
to be at, I hope, yeah, thismonth.
The sewing guides every monthare really popular, so people
clearly like getting the littlereminder of of, uh, what to sew
and what we can sew and whatshould we sew in this month.
The biggest thing is always tokeep sowing a little bit anyway,
and to keep because it meansthat you're going to have
longevity in your crops down theline.
And, yeah, there's, there'slots, lots this month that we
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can sow.
If you've missed out on any ofthe sowings or anything has
dropped off the list this month,just get yourself a few plants,
get them in.
Still loads of time to do that.
So it's not.
It's not all gone if you'vemissed those sowing, those
sowing chances, but hopefully,anyway, that's given you a
little bit of a, of a of aninspiration or a help in what
you want to sow or what you cansow this month.
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you.
how's it going, everybody, and welcome to
episode 274 of master, my gardenpodcast.
Now, this week's episode beingthe first friday of may, we're
doing our usual seed sowingguide, and I suppose may is, I
suppose, probably the busiestmonth in the garden.
It's the month where growthtypically comes together all
(00:32):
your beds are full, lawns aregrown, perennials are peeping up
, weeds are starting to startingto grow as well, and so it
tends to be the busiest month inthe garden.
It's quite a busy month on thefront as well.
Certain seeds will have droppedoff the list this month, but
the majority remain there andagain, it's one of the.
(00:52):
It's one of the months wherethe the most variety of seeds
can be sown.
It's as we record this one.
It's a huge difference to lastweek.
So last week I spoke aboutprotecting seedlings and young
plants.
You know from the harsh weatherthat we had a week or 10 days
(01:14):
ago and at the time of recording, it's a totally different scene
, you know.
So a few days later, it'stotally different again, and as
we enter into may, it's reallywarm and dry and yeah, with all
the, with all the moisture andall the rain that fell last week
and now the heat, growth hasreally started.
(01:36):
So we have an explosion ofgrowth at the moment and it's uh
, yeah, it's a, it's a, it's a.
There's, as I say, lots thatcan be sown.
And you see, you know, asidefrom the sowing, all of the
garden shows are getting going.
This weekend is the Festival ofGardens and Nature.
(01:57):
That's in Ballantubbard House.
That's on this weekend.
Some amazing speakers at thatfantastic you on this weekend,
some amazing speakers at thathave fantastic, you know
fantastic array of speakers atthat.
At the end of the month we'llbe Bloom will be kicking off.
I might chat a little bit moreabout that in the coming weeks.
And, yeah, there's last weekendwas the Clare Garden Festival
(02:19):
and you know it seems to beplant fairs.
I Kill.
Gardens have a plant fair onSaturday, I think.
The following Sunday there'sthe Mount Congreve rare and
special plant sale.
So there's a huge amount ofgardening events kicking off now
.
May is the traditional monthfor all of those, so you can
(02:42):
imagine there's lots going on.
So, on the sowing front, we'regoing to go through them, sort
of group them together a littlebit as well.
And you know this, this listhasn't changed a wild amount
from last month.
A couple of things will havedropped off a couple of things.
They're going to need reallylong seasons.
They have dropped off.
You know we're running out oftime for those things.
(03:02):
Like you know, in terms ofsowing, getting a little bit
late for sowing of tomatoes,it's because really you want to
be getting them into the tunnelat this stage.
So if, if you haven't sowed, orif you're held up for any
reason or some of your seedlingsfailed, just go at this stage
and buy plants.
There's no, no big deal in that.
And things like peppers againneed a long season and should be
(03:25):
planted into the tunnels.
Basically, now, once it's warmenough and you know again, if
you don't have seeds, so on ofthose it's a little bit late
you're going to be up against itto get a harvest from them.
So get some good, strong plants, get them in, tend to them well
over the first few weeks, getthem established and then you'll
have.
You'll have crops quite easily,quickly, and melon is another
(03:46):
one's too late for sowing that.
So you know there's a few,there's a few bits and pieces
and then there's a good few onthe list that this is going to
be the last chance for sowingand we really are looking at the
earlier part of the month forsowing.
So just to start off, we'relooking again, you know, with
your, your successional crops.
So pretty much every monthspring onion is going to be on
it.
We're still sowing, you know,the standard white lisbon or
(04:09):
some of the summer spring,summer varieties.
They're.
They're perfect for now.
Summer salad leaves, a mix ofsalad leaves.
I have a really good one sewnwhich is quinoa rocket.
There's what else is in it.
There's a lettuce in it.
You know there's four or fivedifferent types and that's a
brilliant one to sow.
Just get a little bit ofvariety in it.
Perennial rocket is a superbone.
(04:32):
Just an hour ago I harvestedperennial rocket.
That's there all the time it'sin flower but you can still
harvest.
You know leaves off it that are.
They're a little bit strongerthan the standard rocket but
they're beautiful and just.
I'll take the flowers off themover over next week or two but
it will continue and next yearit'll continue and it's just
(04:54):
always there, pretty much aharvest off it all year round.
So perennial rocket is abrilliant one if you can get it.
Spinach is another one, againsuccessionally sown, that you
will notice now, especially withtemperatures that it's going to
run to seed quite quickly.
So you want to be harvesting asquick as possible, using it up
and then doing small and regularsowing.
So every couple of weeks you'redoing a sowing of it.
(05:15):
Radish is another one againwill grow really, really quickly
.
You'll get harvest quitequickly off it and you, you know
, within a few weeks of thistime of year you're going to be
eating radish, fresh radishlettuce, just the standard heads
of lettuce.
Again, I don't do a huge amountof sowing.
It's on the sowing guide everymonth.
I don't sow lettuce every month.
I'll sow it a couple of times ayear because I will do utilize
(05:37):
sort of leaf harvesting asopposed to head harvesting.
So, for example, again atlunchtime I had some lovely
curly headed lettuce and I'm notsure the variety, but a lovely
curly headed green lettuce andit was delicious.
But all I'm doing is breakingoff the outside leaves and
that's going to give a harvestfor next couple of months.
But if you know, if you want toharvest heads, you just need to
(05:59):
continue to sow to ensure thatyou have.
You know that you have acontinuity of of crops over the
over the coming months.
Then a couple that are kind ofyour last chance to sow.
Leaks is one of those.
So at this stage you're goingto be switching to an autumn
stroke winter variety.
You'll make your sowing now,you'll plant out in a month's
(06:19):
time and then that's going togive you one of these late
harvests.
So this is, you know, what wetalk about.
Quite a lot is utilizing thatspace that we have available and
that we're getting our harvestright through to autumn and into
winter and even through toearly spring, and some of what
we'll talk about today will bespecifically aimed at that.
So leeks, switching to a wintervariety, and kind of last
(06:41):
sowing earlier part of thismonth.
Next one is beetroot.
Again, a couple of sowings ayear of beetroot will do the
trick, but in the month of May.
If you get a sowing now, thenthat's going to be again a
really late harvest Late, yeah,end of autumn, early winter, and
will store at that stage aswell, even in the ground.
(07:02):
So a good sowing of beetroot atthis time of year is going to
give you a, you know, nicelongevity in in harvest, other
things that we can be sown, andyou know, just in terms of the
brassica family, cabbage.
So at this stage we're going tobe switching to the autumn,
winter varieties, so savoy, redcabbage, those type things, and
you're going to be, you're goingto be again.
(07:23):
You're looking at a harvestdown the line, especially with
the longer term ones like redcabbage and savoy.
They're going to be slow to.
They're going to be slow tosort of head up and and and be
mature, but then you can stillcontinue to sow the likes of
greyhound and, you know, thepointed head lettuce.
They'll give you a much quickerharvest.
You know, over over the comingmonths, purple sprout and
(07:50):
broccoli last chance kind ofthis month to be sowing those
because they need a really longseason.
If you, you know, if you get asowing done now, you'll get to
plant them out in a month's timeand then that's going to give
you a harvest around Christmastime and into January, february
of next year.
Really worthwhile crop, becauseyou'll find that purple sprout
and broccoli at that stage isjust a kind of a welcome boost
(08:11):
of fresh greens and they'll bereally, really tasty, quite
abundant as well.
The calabrese you just reallyget one head of broccoli off it
and then you just cut it off andfor the space and the time I a
little bit of a a waste of time,to be honest with you, whereas
something like purple sprout andbroccoli, you get just much
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more off it.
It'll continue to hurt, you'llbe able to continue to harvest
over a good few weeks and itjust gives more, more for the
space that you're giving it.
It is a long-term crop, though,so it's going to take quite a
bit of time to get to that stage.
Calabrese I mentioned yeah,they're very tasty, obviously,
but I just think they take up alot of space, quite slow, and
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then the the reward at the endis a little bit, a little bit
less than what it should be.
Cauliflower is another one thatreally falls into that bracket.
Cauliflower is beautiful, it'sactually one of my favorite
vegetables, but the reality isthat it takes up a lot of space
in your beds and then all youget is one harvest, and it tends
to come at once.
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So I find calabrese andcauliflower, just you don't get
enough out of it.
I grow them, um, I love them,but just, you know, if you're,
if you're, limited on space atall, don't, don't bother with
those uh turnip.
So again, continuing with themilan purple tops or the
snowballs, those type, you know,small, small turnips you can
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continue to sew them at themoment and swedes this kind of
last chance this month to to sewswedes.
And so, yeah, they're going togive you a harvest again through
the autumn and winter.
So this is why we continue tosow, this is why we have this,
the monthly sewing guidesbecause you know you can get out
, you can get all your sewingdone early, fill up your beds,
but you do need to be lookingahead, looking to keep those
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beds full, to keep somethingcoming towards the kitchen, you
know, in the depths of thewinter and in and into next
spring.
Another one that you can sowthis month is Pak Choy a really
good one That'll be.
You know that'll give you aharvest quite quickly.
So you'll be harvesting thosein.
Well, now, may, probablylooking at July, august time
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harvest, but again, you can sowthis later on as well.
We're also looking at lastsowings of certain of the
certain ones of the of the thewarmer type crops, the ones that
need heat.
So, for example, cucumber again, for me, I won't be doing
sewing a cucumber this month.
All you need is one or twoplants.
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I already have those, so Idon't need to sew anymore.
Courgette the same again, exactsame for me.
Won't be sewing this month, butyou can earlier in the month,
and the cucumbers early in themonth, and you are looking at,
um, you know, again, one or twoplants is going to do and going
to going to solve all yourrequirements.
So you don't need to keepsowing that sweet corn.
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Very much the last chance tosow that, you know, do it in the
earlier part of the month andit's a.
You know it's a great crop tohave french beans.
You can direct sow those at thisstage and they'll give you
crops, whether it's the bushones, the little compact ones or
the climbing ones.
You can sow them and sow themdirectly Now.
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You can also pot them or sowthem into a pot.
That's an easy way of doing itas well if you want to continue
to utilize your propagation area.
But at this stage we can startdirect sowing quite a bit.
Um, celery, again, can be sownthis month.
Peas can be sown this month andanother two now that are
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definitely into the last month,pumpkin and squash.
So they require a long, a longseason.
I find that the squashparticularly because of the
length of season required and Ithink because of the lack of
sunlight over the last couple ofsummers.
They are hit and miss.
So you can, you can have quitesuccessful years and then other
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years not so much.
But pumpkins generally,generally speaking, are
successful and squash can besuccessful, is successful a lot
of the time time.
But you know, sometimes it canbe a little bit hit and miss, so
just watch out for that.
But either ways, sowing from asowing perspective, it's it's
early, early in the month, ifyou can at all.
Some of the herbs we're stillsowing, and some of them
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actually would be sowing kind ofyou know, for the first time or
it's the first time that we cansuccessfully eat, successfully
and easily sow them.
So coriander, chervil, dill,parsley, pretty much any of
those can be sown this month.
Basil I haven't sown any yetbut I will sow it now this month
.
So basil definitely needs theheat and do one good sowing of
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basil and it'll do you all year.
You don't need to keep sowingof basil and it'll do you all
year.
You don't need, you don't needto keep sowing that.
Other vegetables still haven'tgot my carrots, my parsnip, so I
have my carrot.
So I haven't got my second, mylater variety of carrot.
So but again, hopefully thisweekend I'll get that done.
So carrots and parsnips to besown, and parsnips, just one
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sowing carrots.
This will be the last of twosowings that I do and yeah, I'll
be harvesting those rightthrough into the winter.
And that's kind of the overalllist of seeds.
Still loads of time to be sowingannual flowers and you can
direct sow a lot of thoseoutside now.
So you know, things like poppycan be sown outside, wildflowers
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still perfect time to sow them.
You're looking at.
Loads of annual flowersbasically can be sown and direct
sown at this stage of the year.
So once the temperatures are up, which they are now quite warm
the bit of moisture that thatcame last week.
It's a great chance to getannuals, annuals into the ground
and other jobs that we can bedoing.
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Still time to sow potatoes, ifyou haven't done already.
Secondarily, some main cropsit's probably gone a little bit
late for the very earlyvarieties.
But secondarily, these maincrops, no problem at all.
And then, on top of that, whatyou will see coming into into
your beds at this stage, no digbeds, etc is you'll start to see
the weeds peeping up after thatspell of rain last week.
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So the moisture and nowfollowed by the heat.
So, in order to stay on top ofthat, just get a really dry day
which, for example, today is areally dry day with lots of
sunshine get a good hoe, like aoscillating hoe or a dutch hoe,
and lightly hoe all thoseseedling weeds on a dry day, and
they'll just crisp up in acouple of hours and that'll be
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your your weeding done for acouple of months.
And it's really easy to do iton a dry day like that, so
you're not digging the ground,you're just giving a little
scratch, killing off the root.
It'll get, as I said, crisp upon a day like today and it
really makes it easy.
But you do need to keep on topof the weeds because if they
start to get ahead of you nowwhich they'll do overnight
nearly at this time of the yearthen it's a sort of a bigger
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battle to try and get it backunder control.
So any weeds appearing in yourvegetable beds, just get on top
of them quickly.
But there's quite a bit we canbe sown.
Still loads to be doing.
It's, generally speaking, a very, very busy month.
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As I said, there's yeah,there's, there's, there's lots
to be at, I hope, yeah, thismonth.
The sewing guides every monthare really popular, so people
clearly like getting the littlereminder of of, uh, what to sew
and what we can sew and whatshould we sew in this month.
The biggest thing is always tokeep sowing a little bit anyway,
and to keep because it meansthat you're going to have
longevity in your crops down theline.
And, yeah, there's, there'slots, lots this month that we
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can sow.
If you've missed out on any ofthe sowings or anything has
dropped off the list this month,just get yourself a few plants,
get them in.
Still loads of time to do that.
So it's not.
It's not all gone if you'vemissed those sowing, those
sowing chances, but hopefully,anyway, that's given you a
little bit of a, of a of aninspiration or a help in what
you want to sow or what you cansow this month.
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And uh, yeah, don't forget anygardening questions.
Give me a follow on instagram,keep in touch with me.
Um, yeah, heard from lots oflisteners after, after I reached
out last week.
So anyone has any questions,any advice, anything you want
covered on a future episode.
Just buying me an email infomaster my gardencom.
Follow me on instagram.
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I'm on facebook and all thoseplaces and continue to share the
podcast if you can, and that'sbeen this week's episode.
Thanks for listening and untilthe next time, happy gardening
you.
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