How to create a thriving vegetable patch this spring – and what to grow right now It is the perfect time to be sowing, planting and nurturing, to be creating a place of productivity and pleasure 19 May 2021 • 12:39pm Garden expert Diacono reveals how to make the most out of the vegetable patch during May and June Credit: Jason Ingram I just mowed the lawn. It felt like the sanest thing I could do. Ordinarily, it sits alongside treading on a plug for pleasure, but today I loved it. It was beautifully, delightfully normal. I should have been writing this article, but that felt wildly out of kilter with the enormity of living with a pandemic. Life will be unusual until restrictions are eased completely in summer.