
22 December 2020
Gardening jobs for April
For April, we suggest mowing your lawn, killing weeds and planting sweet peas.

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Get your lawn in shape
After a winter of neglect, your lawn will benefit from a bit of TLC now. Start mowing once a week, beginning with the blades at the highest setting and gradually lowering them over the weeks. If your lawn mower needs replacing, see our Best Buy lawn mowers.
For a perfect finish, trim the lawn’s edges with long-handled shears or a grass trimmer
Lastly, give the lawn a feed. If it contains weeds or moss, treat these at the same time with a weed, feed and mosskiller treatment.
Kill weeds
Getting on top of weeds early in the season means that you should prevent them seeding and becoming a problem. Hoeing the border once a week works well.
Perennial weeds, such as dandelions, will come back if they’re hoed off, so to get rid of them permanently either dig them out roots and all or use a weedkiller containing glyphosate.
Plant out sweet peas
After pinching out sweet peas last month, they should have strong side-shoots that will flower well.
Plant them next to a support that they can climb by wrapping their tendrils around; they’ll need to be tied in with string at the start to get them going.
Harvest salads
Early sowings of salads should be ready to pick now. Cut off the leaves, rather than pulling up the whole plant, and they should resprout new ones.
Good salads to try include loose-leaf lettuce, rocket, mizuna and mustard.
Veg jobs for April
April brings warmer weather so it's time to get sowing and planting.
For our full guide to veg garden jobs for April, watch our video.
Gardening through the year
- 1.Gardening jobs for January
- 2.Gardening jobs for February
- 3.Gardening jobs for March
- 4.Gardening jobs for April
- 5.Gardening jobs for May
- 6.Gardening jobs for June
- 7.Gardening jobs for July
- 8.Gardening jobs for August
- 9.Gardening jobs for September
- 10.Gardening jobs for October
- 11.Gardening jobs for November
- 12.Gardening jobs for December
- 13.How to choose a Christmas tree

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