GARDEN TALES: April in your garden

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

April in your garden

Here's a quick guide to the jobs you should be doing in your garden during April :

Plant summer flowering bulbs - this usually starts early in March
Plant potatoes - again start in early March
Begin dividing herbaceous plants
Plant evergreen plants & hedging
Continue making compost - should have begun this practice in early March
Continue cutting lawns - begin this in early March
Plant up hanging baskets - these containers are already appearing on the pedestrian streets around Dublin
Continue sowing annual flower seeds - this was begun in early February
Continue sowing annual herb seeds - following on from early Feb
Begin to clear & maintain ponds
Plant marginal & pond plants

Note: if you are uncertain about how to exactly perform any of these tasks consult your gardening books or the Web. An excellent garden advice & mail order site can be located at: http://www.bakkeri-rl.com/
http://www.kew.org/ is the excellent home page of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London. This is the top gardening site on the web - check it out!

Today's weather in Dublin was very windy with frequent blustery showers. But the lousy weather was offset by the sight of so many lovely plants all profusely breaking into bud. Most garden plants have been 'breaking into leaf bud' over the past 6 to 8 weeks. Its only now that the whole event seems to be occurring simultaneously...