Jobs for May:

• Sow brussel sprouts, broccoli, winter cabbage and kale in seedbeds

• continue to sow peas, lettuce, salad leaves, spring onions, raddish, beetroot, rocket, carrots, coriander & kohlrabi directly in the ground

• nasturtions near the broad beans to protect against blackfly

• harden off celery plants to set in the vegetable garden in late May

Plant - beans, squash, courgettes, sweet corn & pumpkins in the vegetable garden at the end of May

Crop - any broccoli, cabbages & spinach still left in the kitchen garden

Enjoy the first lettuce, salad leaves, rocket, and spring onions which should be big enough to pick in May

Also -

• thin out seedlings, so they have plenty of room in the row
• prepare ground for leeks
• stake broad beans
• put straw under & around strawberries to keep soil off the fruit
• ridge up early potatoes
• continue to weed, hoe and mulch in the vegetable garden