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Growing your own - what to plant in May
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Growing your own - what to plant in May
The chance of frosts in May are low and so now many vegetable seeds can be sown outdoors, and there's nothing more rewarding than growing your own veggies from seed all the way through to the plate!
Sowing Outdoors
Sow carrots, parsnips, peas, radishes, spinach and spring onion outdoors
Sowing Indoors
In greenhouses or indoors crops such as courgette, marrows, cucumbers, runner beans and perennial herbs can be sown
Planting Out
Brassicas and leeks can be planted-out into your vegetable rows
Tomatoes
Tomato seedlings can be planted into growbags or containers but should remain in a greenhouse
Sweetcorn
If you have the space then sweetcorn can be sown outdoors, however you will need at least 12 plants for pollination
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