The clocks have sprung fowards and the spell of dry weather continues. The garden is slowly coming back to life, and the peak season for sowing seeds has arrived! Don’t rush to plant out young seedlings just yet or Jack Frost might get them!
Jobs to do this month:
Protect plants from the frost
April is the perfect month to sow flower seeds. Cosmos, Zinnias, and Sunflowers can all be sown indoors or in a heated greenhouse. Outdoors you can sow Nigella (Love-in-a-Mist), Calendula (Pot Marigold), and Larkspur. Take a look at all the flower seeds you can buy and sow now, that are all grown in the UK and perfect for your garden.
If you are growing vegetables this year then its time to sow tomatoes, peppers and marrows indoors or in a heated greenhouse.
Start hardening off seedlings that have been grown indoors by placing them outside on warm days
Pot up cuttings of Fuchias and Geraniums in peat free compost
Plant out Gladioli, Dahlias and Lillies mixing some plant feed and soil conditioner in with the soil.
Apply a sprinkle of NG Soil Conditioner to the lawn and apply grass seed to bare patches
Plant fruit trees and bushes
Plant out strawberries and Rhubarb
Mulch and feed beds with our peat free compost to retain moisture and provide slow release nutrients for the summer
Plant out onions and potatoes. Earth up first earlies and plant out second early and maincrop potatoes.
Sow hardy annuals
Mulch around roses with plant feed and soil conditioner to protect their roots and provide nutrients for spring growth
Divide herbaceous herbs
Clean up strawberry beds separating any runner plants from the mother plant.
Apply acidic mulch to blueberries and cranberries (christmas tree trimmings are great for this if you have kept the branches). Mix some of our soil conditioner in to the mulch to provide a Ph neutral feed for the berries.
Prune stone fruit trees
