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What's Blooming in May: Veggies

broccoli What’s Blooming in May:  Veggies by Mary Miller, Community Garden and Outreach Coordinator at the Gardens on Spring Creek   After the cool, wet spring we have experienced, the soils are now warming up and fewer nights are dipping to freezing temperatures.  Sunny and warm days are returning.  It is time plant the whole vegetable garden – even those frost tender seedlings and seeded crops! Hopefully you’ve stocked up from our Spring Plant Sale and are ready to plant your vegetable garden. pepper plants at The Gardens' Spring Plant Sale If one has not had opportunity to plant the cool season crops, go ahead and get those in the ground.  They include peas, broccoli, cabbages, radishes, lettuces, spinach, Brussels sprouts, cilantro and the like.  Whether planting by seed or planting seedling starts, it is time for those crops to get growing.  As well, the warm season crops such as basil, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, cucumbers, squash, beans and tomatillos may all be pla