May Gardening Tips: The South
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Spring is winding down and summer's just around the
corner. Here's the last burst of garden chores to get
done before serious heat sets in.
Last Frost Dates -- In all but the hottest regions of
the South, continue to plant warm-season annual
flowers, herbs, and vegetables (tomatoes, peppers,
basil, marigolds, petunias, and the like) as long
as your're past your region's last average annual
frost date.
• Last Frost Dates >>
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* Continue to plant tender summer bulbs outdoors,
including glads, cannas, dahlias, and tuberous
begonias, as long as your frost date has passed.
* In all but the hottest regions of Texas and
Florida and the coldest regions where the last frost
date hasn't passed yet, plant seeds or seedlings for
corn, green beans, melons, squash, cucumbers,
okra, sweet potatoes and other heat-lovers.
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Sunday, May 3, 2009
MAY Organic Gardening
MAY Organic Gardening
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May is the swinging door into summer and by the end of
the month, we'll all be roasting in Zone 7's summer
heat. Meanwhile, enjoy lovely spring flowers like
phlox, irises, roses, daylilies (and Trilliums an
maypops, down in the woods), and relish the harvest
from our spring gardens.
Clear Your Compost Bin. Make sure you've got an empty
compost bin to hold finished pansies, cleared-out
weeds, and any bags of leaves you decide to harvest
from the curb. I usually start a new worm bin about
this time, too.
Fill In Bald Spots. On any bare places in the garden,
sow a cover crop to build soil and out-compete weeds.
I like buckwheat and black-eyed peas as summer covers.
Sow and Transplant. You can sow or transplant beans,
black-eyed peas, Crowder peas, cantaloupe, squash,
melons, pumpkins, cucumbers, sweet corn, okra, hot
weather lettuce mixes, tropical greens, basil,
tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, and sweet potatoes.
Crop Care. Harvest your cool season crops regularly,
keep them watered and weeded. When the snow peas show
signs of heat fatigue, you can dig them right into the
bed to enrich the soil, or contribute to the compost.
Flower Power. Now is the time for planting annual
flowers like asters, cleome, coreopsis, cosmos,
flowering tobacco, marigold, petunia, sunflower,
Tithonia ("Mexican sunflower") and zinnias (all
types). Continue setting out summer annuals like
begonia, geranium and petunia this month.
To read the full article: http://www.organicgardening.com/feature/0,7518,s1-26-27-1214-6-1X2X3X4X5X6X7X8X9X10X11X12-13,00.html
http://www.organicgardening.com/feature/0,7518,s1-26-27-1214-6-1X2X3X4X5X6X7X8X9X10X11X12-13,00.html
May is the swinging door into summer and by the end of
the month, we'll all be roasting in Zone 7's summer
heat. Meanwhile, enjoy lovely spring flowers like
phlox, irises, roses, daylilies (and Trilliums an
maypops, down in the woods), and relish the harvest
from our spring gardens.
Clear Your Compost Bin. Make sure you've got an empty
compost bin to hold finished pansies, cleared-out
weeds, and any bags of leaves you decide to harvest
from the curb. I usually start a new worm bin about
this time, too.
Fill In Bald Spots. On any bare places in the garden,
sow a cover crop to build soil and out-compete weeds.
I like buckwheat and black-eyed peas as summer covers.
Sow and Transplant. You can sow or transplant beans,
black-eyed peas, Crowder peas, cantaloupe, squash,
melons, pumpkins, cucumbers, sweet corn, okra, hot
weather lettuce mixes, tropical greens, basil,
tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, and sweet potatoes.
Crop Care. Harvest your cool season crops regularly,
keep them watered and weeded. When the snow peas show
signs of heat fatigue, you can dig them right into the
bed to enrich the soil, or contribute to the compost.
Flower Power. Now is the time for planting annual
flowers like asters, cleome, coreopsis, cosmos,
flowering tobacco, marigold, petunia, sunflower,
Tithonia ("Mexican sunflower") and zinnias (all
types). Continue setting out summer annuals like
begonia, geranium and petunia this month.
To read the full article: http://www.organicgardening.com/feature/0,7518,s1-26-27-1214-6-1X2X3X4X5X6X7X8X9X10X11X12-13,00.html
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