The 12 Best Crops to Plant in May ASAP!

I'm the kind of gardener who will watch how to plant these plants then proceed to just chuck seeds everywhere and watch what happens.

Epic really needs to get more contributors north of the Carolinas in these videos. Tons of us are just getting started for the season, and any beginning gardener in Zone 7 or lower is going to be extremely confused by the state of things shown in CA, NC, and FL.

Thank you for leaving the zones up the whole time people talk! I always find myself wanting to know the zone after they’re halfway through talking about the plant

“It’s almost too late to plant things” * laughs in northern New England*

Ive seen it in a few other comments, but Meg be so so careful with the heat. I am a MS reaearcher and something that consistently comes up with patients we talk to is that the heat triggers flare ups. I would reccomend getting a loose umbrella in a stand like you would put on a picnic table and moving it around the garden with you. Thats what i do to stay out of the sun while gardening and its great. I put mine on a sled type thing with a strap handle on either side to drag it around the yard on the mulch

Kevin: "If you don't have something in the ground by now, you might be falling a bit behind" Me: *cries in Zone 6B*

Oh my! The way Kevin said that acorn squash has been around since the 1970s sort of hit. I was expecting it to be an really old heirloom. Instead I’m just feeling old. 😂

I am on my third year trying to grow catnip.. I had 35 seedlings the first year growing nicely, they disappeared one after the other. I thought maybe the birds? Though even the once that got bigger disappeared. When I was down to my last 7, about 8 inches high, that were growing close together, I walked onto my balcony one day, and saw my male cat RIPPING THEM TO PIECES. It was him all along. He turns wild, completely nuts, with the catnip. Last year I tried covering them with chickenwire to keep my cat from getting to them, the slugs ate them all, we had a plague of those over the weather. Did not expect to see hundreds of slugs on the second floor. This year I have a ton of seedling again, covered, and I check them several times a day, keeping an eye on Sandro, my male furball, and at night to find slugs. So far, so good.. if I can save only the one, I will be happy..

How I like to plant green onions is by planting........the roots of store bought green onions. After I cut off the green part and use it for cooking, I plant the white part with the roots, and then I use the cut and come again method so that I can just contiue harvesting the same onions, so that I don't need to contue planting them.(I'm still cuting the green onions from last year, though I do plan on letting some go to seed)

Thinning plants is the hardest thing to do besides waiting for something to grow. I happily have an abundance of sprouts and plants this year that I’m ok thinning to just 1 or 2 plants but still it feels like I’m killing my babies! I always apologize as I’m pulling them