It’s time to get growing, however, snow in May is common and the last frost date for Calgary usually falls after the May long weekend. Carry your Calgary Horticultural Society membership card with you, as many local garden centres provide our members a discount, but you need to ask and present your card to receive it. Go in the evening if you like a quieter shopping time. It seems everyone is buying containers and hanging baskets.
May is the busiest month at garden centres. A healthy garden has biodiversity in its creatures as well as its plants.
Consider keeping an area with a collection of sticks and leaves as a bug hotel.
To have beneficial insects in your yard they need cover. Leave a few piles in the yard until nighttime temperatures are steadily above 10 ☌. Create a pile and let it sit before putting it in the compost, so the creatures hiding in it can move on. You can start cleaning up the leaf litter from last season, but don’t do it all at once. Water in the area from the tips of the branches to one-and-a-half times the height of the tree away. When the leaves start to show on shrubs and trees, water low and slow around them if the ground is dry. It’s time to hook up rain barrels and monitor soil moisture. The weather has warmed up enough that it’s time to hook up rain barrels and monitor soil moisture. These include alyssum, marigolds, pinks, ornamental clary sage, and zinnias. It’s not too late to start growing annual flowers inside so you will have seedlings to plant in the garden. To help warm the soil of raised veggie beds before planting, place black landscape fabric on the surface to absorb the heat from the sun. Unless you are starting them indoors, it is best to wait until the last week of May to sow them. Does it feel cold? If it’s cold, then don’t sow. It’s still too early to plant warm-season crops such as beans, cucumbers, and squash. She likes eating them but finds if you give the pests a place to feast, they’ll leave the other plants alone. Radishes are the Society’s horticulturist Kath Smyth’s favourite spring crop. If you like to eat radishes, plant one for eating and two for the pests. Plant them throughout the garden as a trap crop to keep pests away from other plants. Plant radishes throughout the garden as a trap crop to keep pests away from other plants. Until these plants are well-rooted and sturdy, they will benefit from cold protection. However, if freezing temperatures are expected without snow, and you have planted seedlings or the seeds have sprouted, have a cover cloth handy. They won’t mind it even if we get some snow, snow is insulating. These include sweet peas, peas, spinach, kale, cabbage, and radishes. Article contentĬool-season crop seeds can be planted. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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