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Jobs for April

Jobs for April

Potting on broccoli seedlings

In the greenhouse:

• If you been growing plants from seed continue to prick them on to grow in bigger trays / individual pots. Also watch for frosts and protect plants overnight!

In the garden:

• Keep an eye on pots of flowers/ bulbs and if the compost is dry water - or they’ll soon suffer!

• If the ground is dry enough, sow Annuals outside in prepared ground (or grow in pots/ containers)

• If the ground is dry enough mulch borders with homemade composts / manure

• Cut back any dead growth on perennial plants and split if required but work off boards if the ground is still wet

• Keep on top of the weeding by hand weeding

• If your lawn isn’t too wet, you can start cutting the lawn. Always leave the blades higher than usual and gradually reduce them every week. If you cut your grass too short, too quickly it’ll go yellow!

• Re-sow any bare patches on the lawn (cover with fleece to protect from birds and water when dry)

• Prune:

o Mophead & Lacecap Hydrangeas: remove a third of the oldest stems to the ground to help generate new growth and then cut the remain stems to the top pair of buds

o Forsythias: after they’ve finished flowering cut back all stems that flowered to a strong bud at the base of the stem and cut a few of the older stems to the base of the plant

o Fuchsias: cut back old stems to the ground (but not if they are being grown as a hedge!)

Do you have a question? Send us an email: info@mersthamhorti.org.uk.

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