What And How To Plant In May. Useful Tips

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

The most crucial moment in the activity of a farmer is May. We invite you to familiarize yourself with a selection of useful tips that make it possible to adjust actions when carrying out the necessary activities

Summer work in May

If you did not visit your countryside in April, then in early May you need to start by cleaning winter shelters and props. Collect last year's plants, foliage, clean the lawn from dry grass. It is necessary to check the drains, install containers for collecting water, wash the greenhouses, tidy the greenhouses. Make sure the availability and serviceability of garden tools, inventory.

A lot of work is required. The sequence is always set individually, based on the volume of cultivated land and the availability of assistants. We need to take care of the compost: transfer it. If the beds have edging, check the integrity of the structures before digging.

May garden work

The blooming garden is charming, but until this moment you need to have time to treat it with a solution from diseases and insects. It is advisable to loosen the trunk circle and apply fertilizers. After a winter with little snow, watering is required, this is done before flowering. Until the end of May, to stimulate the growth of shoots, fruit trees and bushes are shed with urea.

In May, the breeding of berries takes place best. During this period, horizontal layers are laid for the perspective reproduction of gooseberries, actinidia, currants. A similar event takes place during mass shoot formation (end of May). For this, the strongest branch is selected, placed in a shallow groove, fixed with a bracket / wire to the soil and filled up.

Weeding is done in the raspberry bushes, the resulting shoots are thinned out, those that thicken the main plant are removed. Under fruit and berry bushes, loosening is carried out by 10 cm and mulching is done with humus, peat or rotten manure.

Garden work in May

Sowing in open ground begins with cold-resistant crops. Observing the rules of agricultural technology, we change the place for planting and move away from cultivation at the same cultivation points. This helps to avoid "soil fatigue", to prevent a decrease in fertility and the development of diseases.

Fruit exchange is scientifically grounded and recommended. When planning planting and laying the beds, the sequence of vegetable plants should be taken into account: cabbage grows well after onions, potatoes, peas, cucumbers. Remove a good harvest of cucumbers if the predecessors are peas, garlic, corn, beans. For onions - tomatoes, cucumbers, potatoes, legumes. For carrots, beets - potatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, cabbage. For potatoes - beans, cucumbers, onions, cabbage.

In the first year, it is recommended to sow cucumbers, lettuce, cabbage, and zucchini on manured land. On the second - celery, carrots, onions, beets, tomatoes. On the third - peas, beans, pumpkin.

Working with seeds: determination of germination, preparation for sowing

Seeds have their own timing for sowing, so as not to waste time, you need to make sure of the quality of the material. For example, dill, black onions, carrots remain viable for 3 years; radishes, cabbage, cucumbers - 4; pumpkins, watermelons, beets - 5, corn, peas - 7, beans, melons, pumpkins - 9 years.

By the appearance of large seeds, you can determine their quality: smooth, well filled. The indicator of germination and age is bright color. If we talk about cabbage, then the old seed does not have a blue-black color, but a faded shade. In cucumber, they should be white, a gray tone is an indicator of lost germination. In carrots, parsnips, celery and spicy crops, the quality is determined by the presence of aroma (cumin, anise, dill, parsley).

In any case, the material must be calibrated before sowing. A saline solution is made (2 tablespoons per liter). A few minutes after backfilling the seeds, the defective ones that cannot be sown emerge. The rest are washed and left to swell (water 15-20C), this accelerates germination by 5-7 days. Parsley, onions, beets, tomatoes are kept in a humid environment for two days. About 12 o'clock radish, watermelon, cabbage, zucchini, lettuce, cucumbers, melon.

Disinfection can be done in water of 50-60 degrees. The beans are kept for 6 hours, cucumbers - 2, cabbage - half an hour. Keep the onion sets warm for 8-10 hours at a temperature of 40 degrees. Keeping the seeds of radish, turnip, radish in a saline solution helps against the earthen flea.

Useful Tips

Tomatoes growing near black currants protect against fire flames. Onions / garlic near the bush repel ticks and other pests. Tomato stepsons folded under a gooseberry or planted mint will help to fight the sawer.

Onions next to potatoes will prevent the development of late blight. Calendula and beans - from the Colorado potato beetle. The parsley in the strawberry beds repels slugs / snails. Dill and tomatoes under the apple tree - protection from the moth. Beans and beans around the perimeter of the site prevent the invasion of moles. Raspberry sprawl can be stopped with a strip of planted sorrel.