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May 2018
Details of what was sown/planted in May
Archive for previous years' diaries dating from 2007 can be accessed by
This diary is a summary of our garden activities. The links are to blog posts that often give more detail.
1 - 6 May
We had a taste of summer this week
Lots of tilling and bed preparation
Lots of seeds sown - full list is here
First lot of potatoes are pushing through
Apples are in full blossom
Sowed carrots and parsnips
Sowed carrots, radish and planted lettuce in bags
Planted Vivaldi potatoes
Moved sweet peas to cold frame
Watered seeds and young plants
It's not all down to the weather
A sense of normality is returning
This catching up is hectic - video
Looking Round our Garden Greenhouse - video
7 - 13 May
Peas are growing well
First lot of broad beans are flowering
Planted remaining potatoes
Sowed hardy annual seeds
Tilled more beds and changed some layouts
Started to tidy lavender border
Strawberries flowering
14 - 20 May
Visited Knaresborough
Started tidying lavender hedge
Frost predicted so covered flowering strawberries and potatoes as a precaution
Carrots and parsnips and some annual flowers have germinated
First lot of sweet peas planted
Some gooseberries have mildew so fruits have been removed/
Sowed more peas, mangetout, beetroot and chard.
Harvested rhubarb and made rhubarb crumble muffins
From waterlogged to watering in six weeks
A sting in the tail - late frost
Renovating a lavender hedge with video
21 - 27 May
Planted the rest of the sweet peas
Planted various flower seedlings
Planted Atena Polka courgettes
Roses flowering in the garden and on the plot
Erected bean frame and prepared the bed for planting
Planyed out overwintered chrysanthemums
Planted more lettuce in bags
Tayberry, blackberry and black raspberry flowering
28 - 31 May
Planted tomatoes in both greenhouses
Started planted runner and climbing French beans
Planted second lot of broad beans
Planted first lot of squash
Resowed annual flowers as slugs had eaten seedlings
Netted and picked first strawberries
Picked first lettuce and radishes
Removed half oi watercress