Late spring
The garden in May
After the last frosts (mid-May / the "Ice Saints") plant out everything tender and fill the borders.
Sow & plant
- ✓Plant out tomatoes, beans and bedding after mid-May
- ✓Sow French beans and squash outdoors
- ✓Plant summer hanging baskets and pots
Jobs & pruning
- ✓Water new plantings in dry spells
- ✓Tie in climbers and support perennials
- ✓Trim spring-flowering shrubs after bloom
In season & in bloom
- ✓Alliums, irises and early roses
- ✓Lush, full borders