Direct-Seeding Vegetables in Mid-May (NE Pennsylvania)

Last frost ~May 20. Direct-sow lettuce, cucumbers, zucchini, beans, broccoli, Brussels sprouts now—seeds will germinate after frost danger passes. Tomatoes started directly will lag 2 weeks but catch up by July.

Timeline

• Cool-season crops (lettuce, broccoli, Brussels): sow now.
• Warm-season (cukes, zukes, beans): sow now, emerge post-frost.
• Tomatoes: direct-sow or transplant starts for earlier fruit.

Community garden + direct seeding = strong, adapted plants.