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April
SUNSHINE AND SHOWERS
BY KATE LINES
Kate’s Top Tip : Take cuttings of your
favourite conifers.
Spring is finally in evidence as
daffodils and flowering trees start
to bloom.
Expect the inevitable April showers this month
but with sunny days too, when you can turn your
attention to the lawn.
It’s an exciting month, with indoor-sown seeds
well into growth, and it’s also time to start sowing
outdoors. Just watch out for frosts...
Deadhead daffodils and narcissi; give them a liquid
feed or a sprinkling of bonemeal and then let them
die down. Don’t cut off the leaves as they are
necessary to replenish the bulb for next year.
Keep deadheading spring bedding to keep it looking
neat, and to encourage new flowers.
Now the soil is warming up and things are starting to
grow, add general purpose fertiliser before covering
with mulch especially in borders, the fruit and
vegetable patch and containers.
Carry on removing moss and weeds from paths,
terraces and drives.
Make new beds and borders - mark the shape with
sand trickled from a bottle, remove the top layer
of growing vegetation and dig the ground over,
incorporating as much organic matter as possible. If
you are making a bed in the lawn, remove the turf – if
you dig it in the buried grass will regrow.
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