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What to do in the garden – First Week of April

The Flower Garden

  • Plant out perennials in groups of three, five or seven for maximum effect
  • Sprinkle fertiliser around clumps of tulips to boost flowering, or use a foliar feed
  • Sow hardy annual flowers directly into beds where you’d like them to bloom
  • Prune Himalayan honeysuckle (Leycesteria formosa)
  • Pick off dead flower heads from spring bulbs
  • Protect emerging shoots of delphiniums and lupins from slugs and snails using a barrier such as copper tape for pots, copper rings or garlic granules

The Fruit and Vegetable Garden

  • Sow sweetcorn in deep modular seed trays under cover to plant out in early June
  • Feed fruit trees and bushes
  • Plant out onion sets grown in pots under glass
  • Order vegetable plug plants from mail-order suppliers
  • Warm soil with cloches or sheets of polythene for early sowings
  • Plant out maincrop potatoes
  • Plant asparagus crowns
  • Sow the following crops this week if conditions are suitable: beetroot, parsnips, turnips, onions, peas and mangetout, broad beans, lettuce and salad leaves, spinach, radish, rocket, mizuna, cauliflower, cabbage and Brussels sprouts

In The Greenhouse

  • Buy plug plants and young bedding plants to grow on for baskets, pots and bedding displays
  • Thin out heavy fruit sets on peaches and nectarines, leaving fruits about 10cm apart
  • Sow annual climbers, such as cup-and-saucer vine (Cobaea), nasturtium, Rhodochiton and morning glory (Ipomoea)
  • Grow an early crop of dwarf French beans in a large pot
  • Repot any top-heavy or pot-bound houseplants
  • Start feeding young plants about 3-4 weeks after potting up in fresh compost
  • Pot up rooted cuttings and seedlings

Around The Garden

  • Remove winter grime from patios and terraces with a pressure washer
  • Sow new lawns, choosing a grass mix that suits the type of lawn you want
  • Snip plain green shoots off variegated shrubs
  • Mow lawns on dry days if grass is growing strongly
  • Dig out couch grass, ground elder, bindweed and other problem weeds
  • Place plant supports over clumps of tall-growing perennials such as lupins and delphiniums

If you want to know more about gardening then just log onto my website at www.babicz.com

Happy Gardening

Andrew

What to do in the garden – First Week of April

The Flower Garden

  • Plant out perennials in groups of three, five or seven for maximum effect
  • Sprinkle fertiliser around clumps of tulips to boost flowering, or use a foliar feed
  • Sow hardy annual flowers directly into beds where you’d like them to bloom
  • Prune Himalayan honeysuckle (Leycesteria formosa)
  • Pick off dead flower heads from spring bulbs
  • Protect emerging shoots of delphiniums and lupins from slugs and snails using a barrier such as copper tape for pots, copper rings or garlic granules

The Fruit and Vegetable Garden

  • Sow sweetcorn in deep modular seed trays under cover to plant out in early June
  • Feed fruit trees and bushes
  • Plant out onion sets grown in pots under glass
  • Order vegetable plug plants from mail-order suppliers
  • Warm soil with cloches or sheets of polythene for early sowings
  • Plant out maincrop potatoes
  • Plant asparagus crowns
  • Sow the following crops this week if conditions are suitable: beetroot, parsnips, turnips, onions, peas and mangetout, broad beans, lettuce and salad leaves, spinach, radish, rocket, mizuna, cauliflower, cabbage and Brussels sprouts

In The Greenhouse

  • Buy plug plants and young bedding plants to grow on for baskets, pots and bedding displays
  • Thin out heavy fruit sets on peaches and nectarines, leaving fruits about 10cm apart
  • Sow annual climbers, such as cup-and-saucer vine (Cobaea), nasturtium, Rhodochiton and morning glory (Ipomoea)
  • Grow an early crop of dwarf French beans in a large pot
  • Repot any top-heavy or pot-bound houseplants
  • Start feeding young plants about 3-4 weeks after potting up in fresh compost
  • Pot up rooted cuttings and seedlings

Around The Garden

  • Remove winter grime from patios and terraces with a pressure washer
  • Sow new lawns, choosing a grass mix that suits the type of lawn you want
  • Snip plain green shoots off variegated shrubs
  • Mow lawns on dry days if grass is growing strongly
  • Dig out couch grass, ground elder, bindweed and other problem weeds
  • Place plant supports over clumps of tall-growing perennials such as lupins and delphiniums

If you want to know more about gardening then just log onto my website at www.babicz.com

Happy Gardening

Andrew

What to do in the garden – First Week of April

The Flower Garden

  • Plant out perennials in groups of three, five or seven for maximum effect
  • Sprinkle fertiliser around clumps of tulips to boost flowering, or use a foliar feed
  • Sow hardy annual flowers directly into beds where you’d like them to bloom
  • Prune Himalayan honeysuckle (Leycesteria formosa)
  • Pick off dead flower heads from spring bulbs
  • Protect emerging shoots of delphiniums and lupins from slugs and snails using a barrier such as copper tape for pots, copper rings or garlic granules

The Fruit and Vegetable Garden

  • Sow sweetcorn in deep modular seed trays under cover to plant out in early June
  • Feed fruit trees and bushes
  • Plant out onion sets grown in pots under glass
  • Order vegetable plug plants from mail-order suppliers
  • Warm soil with cloches or sheets of polythene for early sowings
  • Plant out maincrop potatoes
  • Plant asparagus crowns
  • Sow the following crops this week if conditions are suitable: beetroot, parsnips, turnips, onions, peas and mangetout, broad beans, lettuce and salad leaves, spinach, radish, rocket, mizuna, cauliflower, cabbage and Brussels sprouts

In The Greenhouse

  • Buy plug plants and young bedding plants to grow on for baskets, pots and bedding displays
  • Thin out heavy fruit sets on peaches and nectarines, leaving fruits about 10cm apart
  • Sow annual climbers, such as cup-and-saucer vine (Cobaea), nasturtium, Rhodochiton and morning glory (Ipomoea)
  • Grow an early crop of dwarf French beans in a large pot
  • Repot any top-heavy or pot-bound houseplants
  • Start feeding young plants about 3-4 weeks after potting up in fresh compost
  • Pot up rooted cuttings and seedlings

Around The Garden

  • Remove winter grime from patios and terraces with a pressure washer
  • Sow new lawns, choosing a grass mix that suits the type of lawn you want
  • Snip plain green shoots off variegated shrubs
  • Mow lawns on dry days if grass is growing strongly
  • Dig out couch grass, ground elder, bindweed and other problem weeds
  • Place plant supports over clumps of tall-growing perennials such as lupins and delphiniums

If you want to know more about gardening then just log onto my website at www.babicz.com

Happy Gardening

Andrew

What to do in the garden – First Week of April

The Flower Garden

  • Plant out perennials in groups of three, five or seven for maximum effect
  • Sprinkle fertiliser around clumps of tulips to boost flowering, or use a foliar feed
  • Sow hardy annual flowers directly into beds where you’d like them to bloom
  • Prune Himalayan honeysuckle (Leycesteria formosa)
  • Pick off dead flower heads from spring bulbs
  • Protect emerging shoots of delphiniums and lupins from slugs and snails using a barrier such as copper tape for pots, copper rings or garlic granules

The Fruit and Vegetable Garden

  • Sow sweetcorn in deep modular seed trays under cover to plant out in early June
  • Feed fruit trees and bushes
  • Plant out onion sets grown in pots under glass
  • Order vegetable plug plants from mail-order suppliers
  • Warm soil with cloches or sheets of polythene for early sowings
  • Plant out maincrop potatoes
  • Plant asparagus crowns
  • Sow the following crops this week if conditions are suitable: beetroot, parsnips, turnips, onions, peas and mangetout, broad beans, lettuce and salad leaves, spinach, radish, rocket, mizuna, cauliflower, cabbage and Brussels sprouts

In The Greenhouse

  • Buy plug plants and young bedding plants to grow on for baskets, pots and bedding displays
  • Thin out heavy fruit sets on peaches and nectarines, leaving fruits about 10cm apart
  • Sow annual climbers, such as cup-and-saucer vine (Cobaea), nasturtium, Rhodochiton and morning glory (Ipomoea)
  • Grow an early crop of dwarf French beans in a large pot
  • Repot any top-heavy or pot-bound houseplants
  • Start feeding young plants about 3-4 weeks after potting up in fresh compost
  • Pot up rooted cuttings and seedlings

Around The Garden

  • Remove winter grime from patios and terraces with a pressure washer
  • Sow new lawns, choosing a grass mix that suits the type of lawn you want
  • Snip plain green shoots off variegated shrubs
  • Mow lawns on dry days if grass is growing strongly
  • Dig out couch grass, ground elder, bindweed and other problem weeds
  • Place plant supports over clumps of tall-growing perennials such as lupins and delphiniums

If you want to know more about gardening then just log onto my website at www.babicz.com

Happy Gardening

Andrew

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