2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
A beginner's guide with a list of important events to keep in mind in April. About the flower garden, perennials, transplanting, dividing, feeding, about the lawn and seedlings
Active work begins after the snow melts, perhaps in some regions it will be only at the end of April or in May. The indicated dates are indicative. First of all, we remove shelters from conifers, roses and other thermophilic crops. The second half of April is the best time for planting seedlings. Now in more detail …
Lawn, rock garden
After the lawn dries out, carefully comb it out with a fan rake. This should be done in all directions, trying to completely remove all long stems of dry grass. To improve the condition, we spill with fertilizers.
We carefully clean the alpine slide from dry foliage, remove excess or dead plants. If possible, we loosen the ground, fix the stones, if necessary, we add soil. We fill the empty places by dividing and transplanting the existing species. We limit aggressive plants in growth, thin out, reduce their area.
April and flowers
Roses
It all starts with the removal of shelters. Experts say that the rose needs to be opened gradually: by partially lifting the covering material and increasing the ventilation intensity. Complete removal of the shelter is done after the snow has completely melted, when night temperatures are not lower than -5C. If there was sawdust or peat powder under the bushes, we clean everything. We treat bushes and soil with antifungal drugs. We do the pruning before the beginning of the opening of the buds, after that we add top dressing.
Rhododendrons, clematis and other thermophilic
The release of heat-loving shrubs and vines from shelter usually occurs a little later than in roses - at the end of the month. We remove dry branches, some types of clematis need pruning. We thin out the hydrangeas, leave the strongest shoots, remove thin and curved ones. Then loosening is required, the introduction of complex fertilizers. It is advisable to mulch the near-trunk zone.
Irises
Immediately after the snow melts, we clean the root part of last year's debris, slightly bare the rhizome. This technique gives access to the sun's rays - the soil dries out faster, putrefactive bacteria are neutralized, and plant growth is enhanced. After the soil has completely warmed up and dried, add fertile soil (compost, humus), spill it with mineral fertilizer. If there are pests on the irises, it is necessary to sprinkle with any preparation of the Azophos type twice with an interval of a week.
Gladioli
We plant the children until mid-April. The density is 4-5 cm, between the rows - 15 cm. At the end of the month we plant full-fledged bulbs. They already have seedlings, have been treated with growth stimulants, bactericidal mixtures, or kept in a manganese solution for 20 minutes. We choose a sunny place, the distance in the rows is 20-25 cm, we keep 10-15 cm between the plants, we deepen it by 10 cm.
If there was a division of the onions by the number of sprouts, treat the wound with coal powder, greenery. Remember that gladioli love changing places - do not plant on the same ridge for more than two years.
Transplanting and dividing plants in April
Until the buds have opened, you can safely start transplanting ornamental crops that have grown too much and require thinning. If your goal is a bush, then pruning may be required before that. Try not to bare the root and transfer it with a clod of earth.
In the last decade, seedlings of cold-resistant annuals (daisies, calendula, forget-me-nots, viola) can be planted on flower beds. We divide and plant irises, primrose bushes, hostu, daylily, phlox.
List of April events
• Picking of flowers sown in March.
• Top dressing of overwintered perennials: phloxes, hosts, primroses, lilies of the valley, peonies, alstiba, etc.
• Application of fertilizers for bulbous (daffodil, tulip, hyacinth) and many bulbous (crocuses, snowdrops, muscari, scilla, etc.).
• Before the start of the growing season, propagation of perennials by rhizomes / division. Loosening.
• Preparation for sowing annual flowers: mignonette, lavatera, Iberis, cornflower, escholzia, clarkia.
• Removing shelters, pruning, feeding roses.
• Sowing under a film of seeds of aquilegia, delphinium, cornflower, feathery carnation and others.
Folk omens
Valuable information based on popular wisdom, helping to determine the deadlines without mistakes. Fluffy catkins on hazel - you can sow cold-resistant plants: spinach, cornflowers, calendula, radish, poppy.
The shelters are removed from the strawberries when snowdrops appear. Crocuses have bloomed - sow alyssum, onions (nigella, chives, leeks), delphinium. A week after that, you can sow carrots, parsley.
The willow and violet have blossomed - they are sowing dill, onion-turnip. Maple now has earrings - it's time for beets. At the nettle, the second layer of foliage opened up, and it rose by 10 cm - cabbage planting begins in the ground. 32 days after the opening of the buds of the mother-and-stepmother, an apple tree, a plum, a pear bloom.
Recommended:
Major Works In March-April
The awakening of nature begins when there is still snow everywhere. March - the beginning of active work of a gardener. You must definitely visit your country estate and prepare the garden for the summer. Every little thing that you forget about can be reflected in the future harvest. Let's talk about the most pressing matters: weed control, soil preparation, pruning, whitewashing
Roses: Flower Care In April
Many growers are accustomed to arranging rose gardens in the fall. However, spring planting also has its advantages. What other work does the florist have to do on a flower bed with roses in April?
Flower Garden In April: What Needs To Be Done?
April is already almost real spring, during the day the sun warms up more and more (although the wind is still quite cold), but at night it is still very fresh. Primroses shyly bloom in flower beds, pleasing to the eye. And together with the appearance of the first flowers, it is time to pick up various garden tools and go to the flower garden. What are we going to do?
Flower Garden In June. Main Works
June time conquers with the color of flowering plants. This is the time of active growth and formation of inflorescences. The flower garden needs your help and the necessary work. Let's talk about dressing, caring for clematis, roses, dahlias, irises and others. About sowing biennials and digging bulbs
Flower Garden - Works In August
August is the time for flowering phlox, gladioli, asters and dahlias. In the evening, the air is filled with a floral aroma: this is mattiola, and mignonette, and sweet peas, and fragrant tobacco. But some plants have already faded, and therefore you need to know what work should be done to keep the garden blooming
