May’s 5 MUST-PLANT Crops: For Any Climate

Get a head start on your summer harvest with May’s top 5 must-plant crops! Learn what to plant now for any climate to maximize your garden’s potential as spring transitions into summer. Help me out and…PLEASE CLICK THE LIKE BUTTON - much appreciated!

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DIGITAL TABLE OF CONTENTS:
00:00 Introduction
00:19 May crop #1: Watermelon
02:40 May crop #2: Beans
04:42 May crop #3: Eggplant
05:57 May crop #4: Zinnias
07:23 May crop #5: Strawberries

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[CaliKim]

Hey gardeners - please subscribe and click the👍 button - it really helps us out. Many thanks! Which of these crops are you planting? -CaliKim & and CameraGuy

[Mylittleveganhomestead]

Beautiful flowers. Zinnias have become one of my favorites in the garden. ❤

[jackiehorsley]

sounds great Kim I well definitely be planting all my favorite summer vegetables like squash qucumber's watermelon beans

[feliciathomas]

Hi Kim. I love your channel. Thanks so much for doing a lot of container planting. That is what i do because of my terrible soil. Cant wait to build my trellis. Also your dog is so cute. He looks sooo shy and unconcerned. Love it...Your garden is beautiful.

[GardenHappy]

AwESome video Kim I love how the background is a little bit blurred and you are in focus. Camera guy is doing a great job. Looking lovely and another awesome update. 👍🥰❤️Liz in California

[crsheridan]

Watching from Arkansas… Thank you for all the great info! This is actually the 2nd video of yours that I’ve watched. I found your channel when I was looking for info about pruning squash plants - I have 3 in a raised bed and really need to do something! You’re a great teacher - I’ll definitely be back. I’ve grown tomatoes before but this year is the first year I’ve really tried to grow other vegetables. I need all the help I can get!

[GrandmaSandy]

So much for another great garden video and some great garden tips. Thank you so much for all your encouragement.

[esthersdaughterlong]

Fantastic idea's Kim. Just bought your bean's.
Thank you so much.

[toysinspanish]

The dog is so cute and looks like a sweet boy. He looking at the camera like "who is she talking to?" So cute!

[apriltahe]

It’s been a minute since I been on and even been in the garden we managed to keep our pepper plants alive and over wintered. I picked up marigolds and cherry tomatoes transplants and a couple seed packets from the garden center. Just been in a busy season of life. I haven’t been successful with beans, one of my kids teachers says he has had success in planting them in the fall like October or November. Hard time with tomatoes so I am trying the cherry’s for the size . And a very limited growing space. I saw rose bush and strawberries at the garden center have to see what kind of space I have . One of my most successful plants has been the okra. And peppers specifically hot peppers and bananas, working on the bells . Southern AZ so hot .

[hangingoutinangelsgarden]

I am new to your channel and looking forward to learning from your experience 👍🏽

[amina-jn]

New to your channel and I love it. This is the second video I’m watching.

[pennypenny]

Your gardens are always so beautiful. Please tell me if you journal what you plant and where you plant it? When you fertilize? Anything like that? I just can not imagine keeping up with that whole garden. Amazing! I know that you have been doing it for a long time, but I am looking for tips, because I am usually the person watching last months video and hoping to remember next year what to do this time of the year.

[GardenHappy]

Hi kim Your nasturtium is off the hook looking gorgeous. We are in the same garden zone so I always gauge my garden by what you are growing and what is working. Do you save the seeds and replant next year or just let them reseed by choice on their own? 🧡🧡🧡Liz

[santaanaroadwildman]

Got it! My bush beans planted last week have already come up! I will wait a week or so so squash/melons up here. I have the condensed brick of mulch from Costco for my small subdivision yard! Zinnias & Cosmos my def. fav. summer flowers. I even have a huge succulent artichoke ready to harvest!

[jaytoney]

Hi Kim. Early to plant, early to pick. I am picking Seascape strawberries, and popping them in my mouth right from the plant, germs and all. I am also piulling up Malaga radishes as needed for salad. There is no rest for the weary in my garden. I have mustard that needs harvesting, blanching, and freezing. It is already harvest time. Soon, I will have peppers too. They are already fruiting, and it is April. Late May, or early June I can believe, but April? I must have done something terribly wrong to get peppers so soon. Some of my tomato plants are already flowering too, Sun Gold cherry, Thornburn's Terra-Cotta, and Martino's Roma. There are signs of fungus on my cucumbers, so I am treating them and my squash with Immunox. I already have it mixed up to prevent cedar gall rust from spreading to my apple trees, so why not use the good stuff.

[rickwashek]

May in so. Cal. But here in PA. I can't get my sugar babies out to first week of June. They are just popping up in my seed tray now. Happy gardening

[keithrodz]

Hi kim now I'm starting my plum from seed and what's your favorite fertilizer for vegetables

[EffSharp]

Hi Kim! (Or anyone else who knows the answer). Can I use the worm tea along with a regular npk liquid fertilizer? I’m a second year gardener (containers) and fertilizer still confuses me. 😂

[ambarleyva]

Is there another way to plant my strawberries since I do not have that item?