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Mzzz B's April Garden BLog

6th April 2019 @ 6:06am – by Webteam
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The spring certainly arrived even though it currently feels like winter has returned. The garden is certainly waking up in no uncertain terms with everything growing almost as you look at it. Especially the weeds , keep control of them now to stop them seeding.

So April is always a busy month, and an exciting one with so much happening.

I have been sowing all sorts of seeds, but only in the greenhouse, wait until the end of the month to sow tender vegetables such as runner and french beans, courgettes, pumpkins and squashes inside in a greenhouse or your window sill, plant out after the risk of frosts.

Only sow vegetables outdoors when they soil feels warm to touch.

If you haven't got your early potatoes in this is the time to do it.

Plant out sweet peas in the middle to end of this month, I grow them like beans, dig in lots of rich compost.

This is the time to plan ahead and provide support for those plants you know will get blown over or flop. Use twigs, pea sticks, metal supports.

Dead head large flowered rhododendrons to keep them healthy and to ensure they do not waste energy by making seed.

Prune forsythias when they have finished flowering, cut back to a strong new leafy sideshoot, and remove one or two of the oldest stems.

Renovate overgrown or badly shaped evergreen shrubs this month, camellias, hollies, euonymous and laurel tolerate being pruned almost to the ground, most others are best renovated over a few years, taking out oldest stems or cutting back uneven growth.

Good time to repot house plants, choose a pot a little larger than the old one and use similar new compost.

Now is the time to establish an annual wildflower patch, sow cornfield annuals in a border or convert an area of lawn, and it will attract a wide range of creatures and insects.

Tie in climbing and rambling roses and feed all roses.

Sow hardy annuals, and herbs outdoors.

Sow new lawns or repair bare patches.

Photo of Brunnera Jack Frost, a very useful spring plant.

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