from gardener's guild 5/6/9

we need to mulch this month after we get all our plants in.

From: info@gardenersguild.org
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 13:53:58 -0400

With a possibility of 90 degrees this week, coping techniques to manage your plants and lessen your labor are key to bountiful results.
+ Lettuce and other cool weather varieties will be struggling to keep it together. To extend them into warmer temperatures, shade them now from almost all direct sun.

+ Be sure to mulch, or cover the soil from the sun, to reduce evaporation, maintain cool roots & reduce stress.

+ Plant in groupings when possible as plants protect and support each other.

+ Interplant varieties, with low growing snugged next to taller and branching edibles

+ And grow through all seasons, simply! When it seems July or August couldn't get any hotter, and the summer may never end, look forward to sowing seeds for September gardens that will grow through the cold months. Contact gardeners'guild with your planning questions and remember, summer will come to an end but the fun of gardening and rewards of creating your urban oasis will continue, over longhaul.