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May has warm sunny days but some chilly nights. Everything is growing fast, including the weeds.
Sowing outdoors
Beans Beetroot Cabbage Calabrese
Carrots Cauliflower Lettuce Peas
Pumpkin Radish Rocket Spinach
Spring Onions Squash Swede Sweetcorn
Swiss Chard
Planting out
Aubergines Beans Brassicas Chillies
Courgette Cucumbers Leeks Marrow
Melons Potatoes (late) Squash Sweet peppers
Sweetcorn Tomatoes
Harvesting
Asparagus Carrots Garlic (overwintered) Lettuce
Onions (overwintered) Peas Potatoes (first earlies)
Radish Rocket Spinach Spring Onions
Jobs
Keep weeding and hoeing the beds
Remove cloches from hardy vegetables if weather is ok
Support peas and beans
Thin out seedlings
Plant out frost sensitive plants
Earth up potato shoots
Protect fruit from birds
Harvest Rhubarb