“In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.”
Ecclesiastes 11:6 KJV
May 2026 Garden Update
Welcome to our May 2026 Garden Update! I realize its July when I’m posting this, but it’s been a busy summer and I still wanted to give an update on our garden progression. My husband and I kicked off our 2026 garden season in mid-May. Our main focus was buying, transplanting, and getting organized for the growing season.
Between my husband and I we got all the tomatoes and half the peppers planted by the end of May. Our oldest took care of planting the two melon plants.
The tomatoes and melons were all planted in the same bags and soil as last year, no soil replacement or amendments. While all of the peppers were planted in new bags with new soil. For the most part, everything seemed pretty happy after transplanting. There were a few that were struggling; a couple peppers, the watermelon, and the Amish Paste tomato.
Before all the peppers were transplanted, my family and I were gone for a long weekend without rain. By the time we got home one jalapeno and the Hungarian hot were extremely wilted. All the leaves were shriveled and brow and I ended up buying 2 more jalapeno plants as a replacement. The stems were still pretty vibrant, so my husband cut all the leaves off in the hopes of promoting new growth.
The Amish Paste and watermelon were not happy in May. I don’t know if they were thirsty or hungry or didn’t like being transplanted. The leaves on both were shriveled and yellowing. They both seemed like they wanted to grow, so we kept at it with feeding and saw signs of hope in green stems and small growth. We pruned off any browning leaves from them.
We fed the plants a few times with a worm casting heavy liquid fertilizer and pruned any flowers that were showing up on the tomatoes and peppers to promote stem growth. Some of the peppers that were transplanted were looking a little yellow, so we purchased a fish based liquid fertilizer high in nitrogen that the plants really seemed to love.
The Amish Paste and watermelon were not happy in May.
Getting Organized
We also got our garden, mostly, moved off the deck and onto wooden benches. We had torn down our old swing set and used the 8X4x4’s and some cinder blocks to make benches. It’s made caring for them really easy as the bags are about waste high now.
Looking ahead
May ended on a pretty good note. We had a couple struggling plants, but overall everything looked happy and promising.
How has your garden been going? I would love to hear about it and if you got everything planted you were hoping to.
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