It’s May – What vegetables can I sow & plant?

May is the time for Potting on plants, planting outside and setting up the tomatoes & warm loving fruits in the greenhouse. If you haven’t sown any seeds yet, don’t worry theres plenty to start in the month of May.

Successional Sowings

Lettuce & Spinach

This means sowing seeds over and over again to keep your vegetables or salad veg topped up over the coming months.

Vegetables to Sow in Succession:

  • Lettuce – try different colours & types to keep things interesting.
  • Carrots – Sow a few rows of carrots in different months of the year for example March, May and July to stagger your harvests and avoid the pests.
  • Beetroot – Sow beetroot to fill gaps in your vegetable garden. They don’t like to be sown near leeks, spinach, sweetcorn, tomatoes or potatoes.
  • Spring Onions – if you have not had any success with onions, try sowing Spring Onions directly in the soil. They come in white and red, so mix it up for a surprise harvest.
  • Spinach – There are different types of spinach for different seasons or just grow Perpetual Spinach which lasts all year, just keep harvesting.
  • Peas & Beans – Sow every month or month and a half for a continuous supply all summer.

Autumn Vegetables

You may think it’s a bit early to think about Autumn, we haven’t had Summer yet. However Autumn vegetables like Squash and Pumpkin need at least 5 months to grow, so they need to be sown in May.

From mid May in the UK or World Zone 8-9 , it’s time to sow your Autumn vegetables like pumpkin and squashes. If you are a fan of Winter cabbage, this is also the time to start sowing winter cabbage seeds like savoy or ballhead types.

The Pumpkin Series

Last Chance to Sow Tomatoes

If you haven’t sown tomatoes yet, your last chance is to sow at the beginning of May. Sow indoors on a windowsill as the outdoor temperatures may not be high enough to germinate the seeds.

The Tomato Series:

Part 1 📕 Tomatoes – Origin, Nutrition and Reasons to Grow.

Part 2 📗 Tomatoes – How to Sow Tomato Seeds + Sowing Video

Part 3 📘 Tomatoes – How to Choose a Tomato Variety to Grow

Interesting Veg – White Tomatoes

Part 4 📙 How to Pot On your Tomato Seedlings

Part 5 📔How to Care for your Growing Tomatoes

Part 6 🌱 Tomatoes – Common Diseases & Solutions

Part 7 🍅How to Harvest a Tomato

💦 My Tomato Greenhouse setup with Growbag watering system– l’ll be using this again this year as it was so successful.

Top 3 Tips on Getting your Tomatoes to turn Red

🍅 And Finally… The Italian Job – Tomato Harvest – last year’s Italian tomato harvest.

Sow Storing Tomatoes in May

This is a new concept in the UK from SheGrowsVeg. These are Tomatoes that you start later in May and can be stored overwinter by hanging up in a cool, dark dry place. In Europe this is the norm! But it hasn’t caught on in the UK yet.. If you love tomatoes, this could be the way to still be eating them until Christmas!

Find out more here: Storage Tomato – Hanging Prince.

4 Veg Things to do in May

Seed Sowing by Month HQ

Check out other Sowings, updates on growings from Jan, Feb & March and Harvests in our Seed Sowing Headquarters.

Quick Link: Seed Sowing HQ for May



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