Vegetables and Herbs
- It is now safe to plant peanuts, okra, and melons outside.
- Set out sweet potato slips or transplants but protect them from the deer!
- Harvest onions, garlic, and potatoes when their tops start to die back.
- Start spraying zucchini and squash for squash vine borer in mid May.
- Mulch around vegetable plants to conserve moisture and reduce disease problems.
- Sow buckwheat in empty areas for a quick cover crop.
Fruits
- Harvest strawberries every couple of days.
- Control weeds around fruit plants by mulching, hand weeding, and spraying herbicides if necessary.
- All fruit plants require 1” of water per week during the growing season for good production. In sandy soils, apply water in 2 to 3 applications of 1/2 to 1/3” each.
