April 2019

 

 

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April 2018 diary entry

April seed sowing schedule

Details of what was sown/planted in April

 

 

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April harvesting schedule

Details of our April harvest

 

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This diary is a summary of our garden activities. The links are to blog posts that often give more detail.

1 - 7 April

 

Bought more strawberry, raspberry and cauliflower plants

Prepared new raspberry bed

Planted kiwi Issai on the allotment

Planted English bluebells, snowdrops and native primroses in the garden

Dug remaining leeks

Tilled more beds

Holding back on sowing and planting

Swapping around

Summary of weather, sowing and planting - video

Garden Redesign - Planting a spring bed - video

Pear blossom - video

 

8 - 14 April

Keen frosts burned new leaves of pieris and kiwi - Issai

Planted more potatoes

Tidied and prepared more beds on the allotment

Planted second lot of onions and the shallots

Prepared strawberry bed

Picked first over wintered cauliflower

Trimmed grapevine

Poor weather for gardeners

Below zero

Coldest late spring morning

Record cold spell for April

An unwelcome visitor

Welcome visitor

Planting potatoes, onions and shallots - video

Pear blossom

Cold spell goes on

 

15 - 21 April

 

Planted the raspberries

Prepared and started to plant new strawberry bed

Planted first lot of broad beans

Sowed first lot of peas

Planted more potatoes

Sowed tomato seeds and they have germinated

Moved some perennials from the garden to the allotment

Planted rose bushes in the garden that were bought on Monday

Set paving circles in new garden bed

Tidied around the garden

Took pelargonium cuttings

Planted first lettuces in cold frame

Plum blossom - a cold case

Warmest day of the year

Mrs Blackbird takes a bath - video

Creating our new raspberry bed - video

Warmest day again - rain required

Mid April bird's eye view of the plot - video

Another record - lovely Easter weather

Making the most of a late Easter

Spring sown broad beans - a video

A leisurely afternoon sowing peas - video

 

22 - 30 April

 

Bought two cornus and a clematis

Planted cornus

Rained and was very windy

Planted last lot of potatoes

More bed preparation on the allotment

Potted up agapanthus and moved it out of the greenhouse

Harvested first over wintered cauliflower

First open ground planted potatoes are pushing through

Planted up new rhubarb patch

Partly planted new strawberry bed

Sowed nasturtiums in old wheelbarrow

Visited Yorkshire Wildlife Park

Cauliflowers coming out of our ears

Seed sowing under way

A walk around the garden in April - video

Tomato test and some cold nights

Maybe May will be better

April tour of our allotment - video

A walk around the garden - video

 

 

 

 

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