JOBS TO DO IN APRIL
IN THE VEG GAREN
IN THE FLOWER GARDEN
April is the time
most gardeners first
get out into the garden.
Jobs to do
Finish any digging that you may not have done due to the weather.
Put up your canes/hazel sticks ready for your runner beans
Plant out your chitted first early potatoes in well prepered ground.
or to get extra early potatoes plant some into 12" (30cm) pots
with good compost. and
place in the corner of your greenhouse. This will bring
them on earlier than the
ones planted outside.
What to sow outdoors
Carrrots, Cabbage
Sprouts, Cauliflower
Parsnip, Beetroot
Broccoli, Kale
Leeks, Lettuce
Onions, Peas
Spinach, Rocket
What to sow indoors
French Beans, Celery
Cucumber, Courgette
Marrow, Pumpkin
and Sweetcorn
Early crops of
Lettuce, Raddish,
Spinach and Rocket
can be sown in pots
Also Micro Veg can
be sown in sown
in small pots
Ready in 7 days
Prick out any seedlings that are large enough to handle into pots.
Check all your young plants for pest and diseases spray if needed.
Ventilate your greenhouse as needed on sunny days
Move large plants to cold frames
to harden off before planting.
Jobs to do
Fork over your flower beds being careful of any bulbs that are coming through the ground .
Spread a general fertilizer over your borders and hoe in.
Mulch round trees and shrubs
with bark or good garden
compost.
Plant out summer bulbs.
Sow hardy annuals outdoors.
Plant out any sweet peas that have already been hardened off in a cold frame.
Jobs to do in the Greenhouse
Take cuttings of Dahlias, Chrisanthemums, Pensetemons,
Geraniums, Fushias and any other tender perennials you may be growing.
Sow any flowers seeds
Sow perennials and place in cold frame.
Prick out any seedlings you have
that are large enought to handle into clean pots.