Summer Vegetables: The Sweet Spot

The Spring Summer Shoulder Season

May is sort of the sweet spot in the summer vegetable garden in our climate. Yes, I know for many of you May is barely summer! But for us here in Texas is already summer, but we have an overlap of harvests from early spring planted veggies and herbs.

It's warm enough that summer vegetables likes cucumbers, squash, zucchini, corn and beans are coming on for harvest, as well as the first tomatoes, but not yet hot enough to melt everything down into scorched earth, as will be the case soon enough. I'm beginning to be rewarded with more squash and zucchini than I will be able to consume fast enough, but I'll happily try.

It's also the time of year where the last of the cool season crops, such as broccoli, chard and the last of the lettuce greens, overlap into summer. Yes, that's right BROCCOLI!