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April 2019
Details of what was sown/planted in April
Archive for previous years' diaries dating from 2007 can be accessed by clicking here
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
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
Planting potatoes, onions and shallots - video
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
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
A walk around the garden in April - video
Tomato test and some cold nights
April tour of our allotment - video
A walk around the garden - video