{"id":104,"date":"2014-05-05T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2014\/05\/may-gardening-tip-sheet-is-ready.html"},"modified":"2025-12-12T15:21:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:21:39","slug":"may-gardening-tip-sheet-is-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2014\/05\/may-gardening-tip-sheet-is-ready.html","title":{"rendered":"May Gardening Tip Sheet Is Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/butterfly-on-pink-azalea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/butterfly-on-pink-azalea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><center><\/center><center><\/center><center><\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\">May is one of the busiest months of all for gardeners throughout most of the United States. Here in zone 7 (or 6B, depending on what map you look at), our frost free date has arrived, which means it&#8217;s time to plant tender annuals and vegetables outdoors. It&#8217;s also the &#8216;last call&#8217; to transplant trees and shrubs, because the hot, dry Virginia summer weather is just around the corner, and transplanting now gives plants enough time to set down their roots before being stressed by the summer&#8217;s heat.<\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\">To download your free May tip sheet, please visit my page of <a href=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/p\/free-monthly-gardening-check-lists.html\" target=\"_blank\">Free Monthly Gardening Tasks<\/a>. May is at the top.<\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/center><center style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/center><center><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BlogSignaturebutterfly_zpse4d4943d.jpg\" alt=\"post signature\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May is one of the busiest months of all for gardeners throughout most of the United States. Here in zone 7 (or 6B, depending on what map you look at), our frost free date has arrived, which means it&#8217;s time to plant tender annuals and vegetables outdoors. It&#8217;s also the &#8216;last call&#8217; to transplant trees&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2014\/05\/may-gardening-tip-sheet-is-ready.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"","tag":"","restrict_content":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1254],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-how-to-garden","8":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>May Gardening Tip Sheet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Download your free May gardening tip sheet. 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