May planting list

Well, it seems the rush is over. The Dallas Planting Manual doesn’t suggest any veggie planting this month, and there are just a few recommended by the Collin County Master Gardeners. You’ve done the heavy lifting, now rest for a bit while your work bears fruit . . . so to speak. Because it’ll start back up again toward the end of summer.

There are two references I’m using, in order:
Collin County Master Gardeners
Dallas Planting Manual, The Dallas Garden Club of the Dallas Woman’s Club

I’ve put an asterisk by the ones I think I’ll be planting.

CCMG
okra* (thru 1 Jun.)
peas, southern (thru 20 May)
sweet potato slips* (thru 15 May)

Garden update:

Germinated and growing nicely are: cucumbers, watermelons, edamame (soy beans), leeks, chives, carrots, spinach, broccoli raab, green beans, potatoes.

As I’ve mentioned previously, we’re growing potatoes in fabric pots this year. It’s working well so far. As the leaves grow, you just fill the pot up around the stems with compost or compost/soil:

I thought that the red potatoes that Jan got at the grocery store weren’t going to come up, but they finally did about a month after the seed potatoes we got from our neighbor. Very strange.

Larger plants that are still actively growing: garlic, onions, peas (which are flowering), all kinds of peppers (there’s even one little banana pepper already), tomatoes, eggplant, blueberries. There are actually blueberries this year! I can’t wait. All of the fruit trees are now fully leafed out, but we had a late freeze (or two) and it looks like there won’t be much fruit. But there are three lovely peaches on Jan’s white peach tree. The tree is so small that it seems impossible that it would produce this year, but so far, so good:

We’re currently harvesting: strawberries (coming in slowly), chives (mmm, cheddar and chive bread), green onions, marjoram, cilantro, oregano.

Our Farmer’s Market starts this Saturday. It seems like it’s been ages. I’m very proud this year, because we made the cloth shopping bags for the Market:

This picture was taken before the bags were printed with the Market logo. I’ll post another when I see the final bags.