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Grow Gardencare Advice
Garden Advice for April
April is the busy season. It’s a tranquil time, and cool mornings and mild afternoons make gardening a pleasure. Work hard now and reap the benefits later.
Plants will be doing either one of two things in your garden in April. Most of your plants will have recovered from the hot weather and should be growing again and perhaps flowering well now. Deciduous trees will start to prepare to go into their dormant period. Either way now is a great time to fertilise. Use a synthetic fertiliser for quick results or an organic fertiliser for a slower, more gentile approach. Liquid fertilisers are great on annuals, potted plants, vegies and herbs.
If you have some gaps in the garden now is a great time to access the garden and make some decisions about what to replant and rip out.
Drop into your local garden centre to see what can brighten up the garden and may be more suited than the plants you lost in the hot and dry summer.
Bulbs that will flower in spring are in store now. Popular favourites like daffodils, hyacinth, tulips and Jonquils can make a wonderful display in the garden or just in some pots. Be sure to use a bulb potting mix.
Don’t wait until spring to see some beautiful sweet peas already flowering and realise you’ve left it too late to have them in your garden. Get some seeds in now and have a great show in Spring.
If you have a veggie garden, you will find all the summer vegies will have finished and its time to remove them, turn the soil over, add some blood and bone and dolomite lime and turn in again. Great time for peas, silver beat, carrots, onions and leeks, and cauliflower, cabbage and broccoli.
Give your English box Dolomite Lime. It will prevent them getting that orange/maroon tinge in winter.
As the lawn starts to come back, treat it with Bindii and Clover Killer to get rid of all the weeds and give the grass a chance to re-establish. If you have a buffalo lawn then use a specific weed treatment for buffalo lawns as the regular product can may your lawn very sick. If the lawn has lots of dry yellow matting, get onto it with a rake and comb away all the loose build up. You may even want to lightly top dress it with lawn soil or well rotted cow manure to really get a strong start to the growing season.