May Garden Chores

Today's May garden chores include watering, watering, and watering. As the temperature heats up, your garden will need more and more water unless you live in an amazing cool, Northern place. Down here in South Central Texas, it is freaking hot, hitting in the 100s later this week and humid. The heat just dries everything out. All of a sudden, your plants look all withered when a little while ago, they were fine. Make sure you water them. Do not deprive them.

Some more May garden chores:

Plant your squashes, pumpkins, and melons, if you have not already done so.

Sow more greens. You can never have enough greens, especially if you have chickens because they love them, too.

Your May garden chores should also include: 

• Every few weeks, you will need to put a small amount of nitrogen fertilizer on your tomato plants and pepper plants once they begin making fruit.
• Check all of your plants for aphids. If you find some, power hose them off and spray your plants with Safer Soap or Hot Pepper Wax to protect them.
• Keep watch for powdery mildew on your plants. Use a fungicide if you need to.
  
• Replant seeds where nothing came up.
• Add a nice layer of mulch to your garden beds to keep moisture in the ground.
• Plant some pretty and colorful flowers to enjoy.
• Plant a good variety of herbs such as catnip, basil, lemon balm, rosemary, mints, thyme and oregano.

May garden chores should include carefully looking around plants for snakes before putting your hands into the garden. I have seen two live snakes this week out in the yard. I am a bit freaked out by it.

Wear gloves and boots to work out in the yard if you are in Texas because you don't know what is out there.