April

Jobs For April

Kitchen Garden
Plant onion sets and seed potatoes
Plant out vegetable seedlings such as cabbages
Plant new strawberries and cover established strawberries with cloches if you want an early crop
Start sowing vegetables without protection
Apply fertiliser to fruit bushes, where appropriate
Plant up a pot with herbs, ready for summer salads


Flower Garden
Feed and mulch beds and borders
Plant container-grown trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants
Stake herbaceous plants with grow frames and rings.
Sow hardy annual seeds
Sow bedding plants in seed trays in heated greenhouse or on windowsill
Start pricking out early sown bedding plants
Plant out autumn-sown sweet pea seedlings 
Plant a hedge

Lawns
Apply mosskiller and 'lawn feed and weed'
Dig out patches of coarse or resistant weeds
Renovate bare patches by over-seeding with lawn seed mixture
Sow a new lawn
Trim lawn edges with edging iron
Mow the lawn, but cut high initially to avoid risk of damage
Lay turf in mild areas providing the ground is not frozen or waterlogged
 
Gardening will be very much dependent on the weather in your area with the timings given as a guide only

 

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