April Tips
Lots of vegetable seeds can be sown outside. Plant out Sweetpeas.
- Prune early flowering shrubs immediately after flowering e.g. Forsythia, Spiraea Arguta
- Plant out Sweet Peas
- Re-seed bare patches in lawn
- Combined fertiliser and weedkiller can be applied to lawns
- Dead head daffodils as soon as flowers fade and apply a general fertiliser
- Sow hardy annuals in flowering position
- A wide range of vegetable seed can be sown outside e.g. salad, broad beans, peas, beetroot, carrots, cabbages, spinach, salad onions
- Give shrubs a top dressing of fertiliser
- Replace the top couple of inches of compost on container plants and liquid feed
- Trim Lavenders