Your Garden - May
If you are not sure what jobs you could be doing in your garden in May, here are a few suggestions:
Kitchen Garden
- Plant up herb pots
- Plant Greenhouse tomatoes and cucumbers
- Sow sweet corn outdoors in mild areas
- Sow vegetables without protection, ie cabbages, cauliflowers and brussel sprouts - seeds
Sow and plant runner beans and french beans
Protect freshly planted crops from birds using crop protection netting.
Start to feed tomatoes as soon as they have their first truss of tomatoes.
Flower Garden
Stake herbaceous plants as they grow
Plant Dahlias and gladioli
Prune Lilac,after flowering.
Plant up new pots and hanging baskets
Continue pricking out seedlings and pot up.
Order your bespoke hanging baskets from burstow nurseries
Lawns
Apply mosskiller and 'lawn feed and weed'
Dig out patches of coarse or resistant weeds
Renovate bare patches by over-seeding with lawn seed mixture (Patch Magic)
Sow a new lawn.(Remember we sell grass seed loose)
- Trim lawn edges with edging iron
Mow the lawn, regularly in dry weather
- Lay turf in mild areas providing the ground is not frozen or waterlogged ( our turf is locally grown and can be ordered ready for collection or delivery)
Gardening will be very much dependent on the weather in your area with the timings given as a guide only.
Please refer to seasonal products for a selection of our seasonal plants, products and latest new arrivals for your flower and vegetable gardens.