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Tasks for this month: April
Vegetable Garden
Harvest of late summer veges: pumpkins, marrows, potatoes,
onions. Store in a cool dry shed.
Sow seeds of beetroot, broccoli, broad beans, cabbage, carrots,
onions, radish, spinach, swedes and turnips.
Transplant seedlings of broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabbage,
couliflower, celery, leeks, lettuce, silverbeet and spinach.
Earth up leeks.
Protect young seedlings from slugs and snails with Butlers
Slug & Snail Pellets.
Vacant areas of the vegetable garden should be sown with a
green crop such as lupin or mustard for digging in later.
Offset winter rain by planting vegetables in raised beds.
Rhubarb crowns which have become over crowded will need to
be dug up, divided and replanted into compost enriched soil.
Plant potatoes in frost-free areas. Plant parsley and perennial
herbs.
Fruit Trees
Most tree fruits have been harvested with the exception of
late fruiting apples.
Start your winter clean-up programme by spraying all trees
with Copper fungicide before pruning. Sharpen all pruning
gear will make the jobs easier.
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Long warmer days will give rapid growth. Keep your garden
well watered. Application of a compost mulch will help retain
soil moisture. Water plants before wilting to reduce stress.
Remember bugs and weeds are also growing flat out.
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Tasks for this month: April
Flower Garden
A busy month for tidying up old summer annuals and replacing
with primulas, cinerarias, nemesia, iceland poppies, calendula,
stock, pansies, violas, polyanthus, penstemon, snapdragon
and hollyhock.
Sow seeds of aquilegia, alyssum, calendula, cineraria, cornflower,
dianthus, English daisy, godetia, linaria, livingstone daisy,
lobelia, lupin, nemesia, snapdragon, statice, stock, sweetpea
and viola.
Continue planting spring bulbs.
Dead head roses as autumn flower finish.
Plant trees and shrubs. At planting time add a long term solid
fertiliser
Prune shrubs that have finished flowering.
Lift and divide crowded perennials.
Lawns
This is the best month for sowing new lawns and refurbishing
old ones with Lawn Seed.
Control broadleaf weeds in lawns with Turfix.
Apply Lawn Fertiliser to all existing lawns.
Control weeds with Glysophate based herbicide.
Mulch all trees, shrubs and roses with Results Organic Compost.
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