May In The Food Garden
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Vegetable plantings in May + Storing your Autum harvest
Personally, I would forget lettuce.
It needs to grow fast to have maximum flavour. Whilst it is possible to mature lettuce in a cool climate, I would not regard it as a priority for space in my vegie garden; better to give space to green manure at this time of the year.
Broad beans are best planted this month to sprout and make vetetative growth before the warmth of spring. They may well flower early if planted early, but will rarely set beans until November.
This month I have spent much time weeding. Crops that grow over winter in wetter seasons naturally germinate much seed that is dormant in the soil.
It is a part of vegie gardening, and if you are not prepared to do it consistently, the consequence is that the nutrition of your vegetables is shared with the weeds. Unfortunately, the weeds are usually better adapted to extract nutrition than are your vegetables, so your crop will be severely compromised.
I find my unbordered layout easy to maintain.
One hour per day on average is enough to maintain my 30 m2 of vegetables.
Spring Onions are great to sow now . They will sprout in the cool and as long as you weed them actively they will provide a crop from September through November. If added plantings are made in July and August, you can have them all year. Just Pick them when they are the right size. Preparing for Spring
Obeying the rotation principles of your vegie garden, the best thing you can do now is to plant any bare patch with a mixture of legume seed for winter.This adds nitrogen to the soil and can be dug in about late August to provide nutrition for October/November sown vegetables.