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1
🧱 Set up watering: soaker hose or drip on both beds on a $15 hose timer
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3
🌿 Sow 1 Sugar Baby watermelon hill at the end of Pallet 2
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7
🌿 Sow bush beans in Bed B (after broccoli, round 1)🧺 Snap-pea harvest begins (Pallet 1)
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12
🧤 Mulch tomatoes 3" straw; start weekly sucker-pruning🧤 Feed onions (blood meal / fish emulsion), keep weeded
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🧺 Broccoli harvest (Bed B) — cut the main head while beads are tight
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🧤 Mulch everything 2–3" (straw / shredded leaves) before June heat
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22
🧤 Train cucumber vines up the pallet; mulch 2–3" straw🧤 Wrap zucchini stem base in foil / check for squash-vine-borer eggs
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🧤 Side-dress tomatoes with compost/Tomato-tone at first fruit set🧺 Basil harvest — pinch tops weekly to stop flowering🧺 Cut garlic scapes (Bed B) — pesto or stir-fry
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📝 plan · 🛒 buy · 🧱 prep · 🌱 start indoors · 🌿 plant · 🧤 care · 🧺 harvest · 🔄 reset
Weekend work sessions this month (these are the calendar invites)
Sat May 2 9–11 AM — 1 task: 🧱 Set up watering: soaker hose or drip on both beds on a $15 hose timer
Sat May 9 9–11 AM — 3 tasks: 🌿 Sow 1 Sugar Baby watermelon hill at the end of Pallet 2; 🌿 Sow bush beans in Bed B (after broccoli, round 1); 🧺 Snap-pea harvest begins (Pallet 1)
Sat May 16 9–11 AM — 2 tasks: 🧤 Mulch tomatoes 3" straw; start weekly sucker-pruning; 🧤 Feed onions (blood meal / fish emulsion), keep weeded
Sat May 23 9–11 AM — 4 tasks: 🧺 Broccoli harvest (Bed B) — cut the main head while beads are tight; 🧤 Mulch everything 2–3" (straw / shredded leaves) before June heat; 🧤 Train cucumber vines up the pallet; mulch 2–3" straw; 🧤 Wrap zucchini stem base in foil / check for squash-vine-borer eggs
Sat May 30 9–11 AM — 3 tasks: 🧤 Side-dress tomatoes with compost/Tomato-tone at first fruit set; 🧺 Basil harvest — pinch tops weekly to stop flowering; 🧺 Cut garlic scapes (Bed B) — pesto or stir-fry
🧱Set up watering: soaker hose or drip on both beds on a $15 hose timerPrep · Whole garden · Garden
20 min every other morning at 6 AM in summer = the single biggest labour saver.
05-01
🌿Sow 1 Sugar Baby watermelon hill at the end of Pallet 2Plant · Pallet 2 — Cucumbers & melon · Sugar Baby watermelon
Warm soil (70°F). 3 seeds in a compost hill, thin to 1. Vine goes up the pallet.
05-03
🌿Sow bush beans in Bed B (after broccoli, round 1)Plant · Bed B — Kitchen bed · Bush beans (Bed B summer)
8 sq ft. 55 days.
05-07
🧺Snap-pea harvest begins (Pallet 1)Harvest · Pallet 1 — Peas → Pole beans · Snap peas (spring)
Pick every 2 days when pods are plump and glossy; picking keeps them producing. Kids' job.
05-07
🧤Mulch tomatoes 3" straw; start weekly sucker-pruningCare · Bed A — Salad & Sauce bed · Tomatoes
Mulch stops soil splash (early blight). Prune suckers below the first flower cluster.
05-12
🧤Feed onions (blood meal / fish emulsion), keep weededCare · Bed B — Kitchen bed · Onions
Onions hate competition. Feed every 2–3 weeks until bulbs start to swell.
05-12
🧺Broccoli harvest (Bed B) — cut the main head while beads are tightHarvest · Bed B — Kitchen bed · Broccoli (spring)
Side shoots keep coming for a month after. Bolted/yellow = too late.
05-17
🧤Mulch everything 2–3" (straw / shredded leaves) before June heatCare · Whole garden · Garden
Mulch = half the watering, no weeding, cleaner fruit.
05-20
🧤Train cucumber vines up the pallet; mulch 2–3" strawCare · Pallet 2 — Cucumbers & melon · Cucumbers
Clip or weave the leaders onto the slats. Mulch keeps fruit clean and soil even-moist.
05-22
🧤Wrap zucchini stem base in foil / check for squash-vine-borer eggsCare · Bed B — Kitchen bed · Zucchini
SVB moths fly in June in TN. Foil collar or BT injection saves the plant.
05-22
🧤Side-dress tomatoes with compost/Tomato-tone at first fruit setCare · Bed A — Salad & Sauce bed · Tomatoes
Then every 3 weeks. Too much nitrogen = all leaves, no fruit.
05-27
🧺Basil harvest — pinch tops weekly to stop floweringHarvest · Bed A — Salad & Sauce bed · Basil & marigolds
Pesto night! Pinch above a leaf pair; flowering basil turns bitter.
05-27
🧺Cut garlic scapes (Bed B) — pesto or stir-fryHarvest · Bed B — Kitchen bed · Garlic
Curly flower stalks on hardneck. Cutting them sends energy to the bulb.
05-27