Gardening tips from the Pavilion experts...
May Gardening Tips
Early in May
- Keep all newly planted items well watered. This includes ones planted last autumn.
- Sow seeds of herbaceous plants.
- Sow or turf new lawns and keep mowing established ones – but not too low.
- Treat difficult lawn weeds e.g. Clovers, black medic with Lawn weed killer.
- Hang up a codling moth trap in your apple tree to reduce the number of maggoty fruit.
- Plant out cabbage, cauliflower and other brassicas but take precautions against root fly.
- Keep on top of pest and disease outbreaks, as well as controlling weeds.
- Don’t forget your houseplants feed and water them regularly.
Mid-Month
- Sow suitable varieties of pansies to flower from autumn throughout the winter.
- Sow biennials for flowering next spring onwards e.g. Wallflowers, mysotis, sweet williams, foxgloves and honesty.
- Plant out chrysanthemums for flowering in borders or for cutting.
- Plant out summer bedding plants when frost risk is minimal.
- Tie in wallshrubs and climbers to their supports.
- Prune wall trained pyracantha and chaenomeles after flowering.
- Keep strawberry fruits off the soil using straw or mats.
- Cut down spring flowering perennials after flowering to produce a neat mound of new foliage. Untrimmed plants often become mildewed.
- Sow swedes, beetroot, carrots, parsnips, French and runner beans outdoors.
- Plant out sweet corn in blocks, rather than a long row, as they
are wind pollinated.
Take cuttings from dahlias and chrysanthemums for flowering later in summer. - Plant tomatoes, peppers, aubergines, cucumbers etc. In a cold greenhouse.
- Make up summer flowering hanging baskets and containers. Treat them with Bio Provado Vine Weevil Killer 2 as a precautionary measure. Control lasts 4 months.
Late May
- Prune clematis montana straight after flowering, if they are getting out of bounds.
- Plant out leeks, marrows, courgettes and melon plants.
- Spinach often runs to seed if sown after mid May – so sow leaf beet instead.
- Sow some half-hardy annuals for use a winter pot plants e.g. Calceolarias, schizanthus and cinnerarias.
- Sow ornamental cabbage and kale for winter colour in tubs and borders.
- Beware of houseplants getting scorched on sunny windowsills.
- Listen to the weather forecast in case of any nasty late frosts.
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