Jobs in April for Week 4
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Jobs in April for Week 4

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Jobs in April for Week 4

FRUIT & VEG

  • Sow pepper seeds
  • Grow parsley in a propagator at 18 degrees centigrade or on a warm window sill
  • Remove straw placed between strawberries, for protecting tender plants from frost.

PLANTS

  • Put out Chrysanthemum put them in compost, frost free.
  • Buddleias and Lavateras can be cut back now, even if in full leaf still.
  • Cut back hard Penstemons to stimulate shoots from the base
  • Replant shrubs before pruning them
  • Dig out and replace any tatty looking plants, such as Lavender, Salvia, Osteospernum and Artemisia
  • Plant drought resistant Cytisus (Broom) with grasses, Cistus, Phormiums and Cypress. Prune out dead brown branches after plants have bloomed.
  • Buy cheap bedding plants such as Verbenas and Scaevola, which are hard to raise from seed.

TASK LIST

Control weeds

After weeding, put down a mulch to prevent more growing.