April 2020

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

01-05 April

Moved crates – carrots, radish, potatoes and spinach from plot greenhouse to garden greenhouse

Moved gooseberry and lavender cuttings to garden greenhouse

Built new passionflower trellis

Planted early brassicas – cabbage calabrese and cauliflower

Planted  second lot of Casablanca and International Kidney

Planted onion sets

Dahlias unpacked

Getting as much done when we can while we can

Lockdown day 14 website killed off

First potatoes planted and some tidying up – video

 

06-12 April

13 - 19 April

Sowed peas, carrots and parsnips on allotment

Planted Osprey, Elfe and Apache potatoes

Lots of bed clearing and preparation

Sowed carrots and radish in crate in garden greenhouse

Tidied and fed the strawberries

Harvested first radishes

Sowed seeds to place in light garden list here 

Tulip time

Lockdown day 19 – Broad bean problems

Lockdown day 20 – Dry but much colder

Lockdown day 24 – Does any software work?

Lockdown day 28 – Our new website is live

Cheap and cheerful

We’ve been ‘attending’ our plot

Dahlia tuber reveal – video

 

20 - 30 April

Unpacked dahlia tubers

Strimmed the grass

Cleared brassica, leek and parsnip beds

More tidying

Planted the remaining potatoes – Nadine nd Rudolph

Planted left over seed potatoes into a mixed bed

Cut back the grapevine

Ruby’s first plot visit

More signs of new life

Lockdown day 30 – Watercress carnage

Lockdown day 36 – Will anything grow, it’s that time of year

Lockdown day 37 – some rain arrives

A walk around the garden – video

First aerial view if the year -video

A late April tour of the plot – video