Fruit, Vegetables, Flowers, Shrubs, Lawns and Greenhouses - Gardening Jobs for April
Jobs for April
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FruitList Item 1
- Net fruit against birds
- Spray peaches with water to help fruit set
- Plant pot grown fruit trees
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VegetablesList Item 2
- Sow onions, beet and winter cabbage
- Sow carrots
- Plant late potatoes
- Earth up early potatoes
- Start succesive sowings of peas, beans, lettuce and radish
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FlowersList Item 3
- Sow hardy annuals
- Remove dead heads of daffodils but leave the foliage
- Divide and replant perennials
- Hoe weeds
- Finish pruning roses
- Trim winter flowering heathers
- Stop side shoots on fuchsias
- Dig out perennial weeds
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ShrubsList Item 4
- Prune shrubs that have flowered such as forsythia
- Plant trees and shrubs
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Lawns
- Mow lawns
- Feed lawns
- Weed lawns
- Trim edges
- Remove dandelions with a weed grubber
- Repair bare patches by sowing grass seed
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Greenhouses
- Incresase ventilation
- Apply greenhouse shading at the end of the month
