Starting in May: ideal 🎉
May is our favorite month in the Planty Garden. Also for starting.
You can start from February until November
It doesn't matter much when you start precisely. Because if you set up a Planty Garden now, you're also doing that for next year. And the years after that.
Setting up a Planty garden box is something you only have to do once. Then you'll have endless fun: season after season and year after year.
Setting up a Planty garden box is something you only have to do once. Then you'll have endless fun: season after season and year after year.
Shouldn't you set up a vegetable garden in March?
That's true for a traditional vegetable garden. There you first have to dig up a piece of land, clear it of weeds, fertilize it ... and do it all over again every year. Such a mega task is too much work for a few months of cultivation, so you usually start in March.
But since you set up a Planty Garden in no time, it doesn't matter when you start. You're preparing it for this year and for the years to come. As long as there is something to sow 😋
Why starting in May is so much fun
- You can sow almost anything in May: from lettuce to cucumber, from beans to beets. For 35 of our 43 seed varieties, now is the right time.
- Everything you sow now comes up super fast, and before you know it, your vegetable garden is full of beautiful plants.
- Some vegetables grow so quickly - like radishes, arugola, and lettuce - that you can harvest your first salads within a month.
- May is also the month to sow legumes. You can harvest them for months - sometimes well into the autumn.
- Cucumbers, pumpkins, and zucchini are sown indoors this month. Because they grow fast, you can plant them outside after about 3-4 weeks.
- You garden in the sun 😎 (mostly)
- African marigols
- Arugola
- Asian salad mix
- Beet
- Bacon bean
- Bibb lettuce
- Bok Choi
- Bush basil
- Bush bean
- Butter bean
- Carrot
- Chard
- Chioggia beet
- Cilantro
- Cos lettuce
- Dino kale
- French radish
- Flat leaved parsley
- Indian cress
- Lettuce
- Liquorice mint
- Marigold
- New Sealand spinach
- Purple carrot
- Romano pole bean
- Snow Pea
- Stem lettuce
- Sugar snap
- Sunflower
- Winter pea
- Winter purslane
Pre-sowing in May:
Wil je ook beginnen? Dat is super makkelijk:
1. Choose your Planty garden box (e.g. with a complete kit)
2. Get customized assistance from our free app
3. Garden for a few minutes a day
2. Get customized assistance from our free app
3. Garden for a few minutes a day