Garden Jobs for the merry month of May
Most of the tasks for April still apply in May. Broad beans and garlic can go in as well as broccoli and winter lettuce seedlings. The cooler months are also the time for spring and salad onions either seedlings or you can sow the seed.
Green Manure
If you have some spare ground over winter consider sowing a green manure crop. When it is about knee high and still green and sappy dig it in for a wonderful start to spring veggie growth.
Pumpkins
If you haven't yet harvested your pumpkins get them in now before the first frosts. I have just brought in the last of mine, a few very late developing butternuts. Keep a good length of vine attached let them harden off in the sun for a few hours and then store them on their side in a cool airy place.Check regularly for any that show signs of rot. Use these first.
Fruit Trees
If you want to put in new fruit trees this year you should start planning now. Fruit trees are best planted bare rooted in June or July. The link below is for a local nursery speciliasing in heritage varieties mostly on dwarf stock, which means the tree will be smaller and should fruit sooner.They post the young trees out to you. I have managed to fit about 18 such trees into my standard suburban back yard. Their catalogue usually comes out around now.
www.woodbridgefruittrees.com.au
