Flower Garden In April: What Needs To Be Done?

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

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?

If you live in regions where snow is actively melting, then make sure that the melt water does not linger in the flower garden, forming puddles, as this can lead to rotting of the roots and bulbs. This means that the plants can die. To prevent this from happening, carefully fold the snow, for example, to the trunks of trees. Or make a special groove so that water leaves the flower bed along it.

Important! Do not start work on the flowerbed until it dries up, otherwise you will compress the wet soil so that the plants will be very uncomfortable later.

If you are already warm, the sun is warming up, and the soil is dry, then we proceed to cleaning the territory of the flower garden. With a rake very carefully, so as not to damage the waking up plants, we remove the old leaves of last year and feed our flowers with dry nitrogenous fertilizers, shallowly embedding them in the soil around the flowers.

Examine sprouted tulips, daffodils, and other early flowers for lesions that indicate disease. If necessary, we process the plants or remove them from the site.

Then we open the roses, if they are still covered. Remember that from a long stay in the shelter, roses can begin to rot from excessive heat. Therefore, we remove all covering materials, even if there is still a cold snap ahead, since roses quite easily withstand short-term frosts down to minus 10 degrees. We inspect the rose bushes, if necessary, we carry out sanitary pruning. We feed. And we leave it alone for about a month.

If necessary, we carry out the first weeding, loosen the soil. If the soil is not very good, then during the loosening process, you can add humus or peat to improve the quality of the soil.

Now we turn to preparing for planting those tubers that have wintered in our basement or pantry. We take out tubers of begonia, gladiolus, dahlias. We carefully examine them, throw away all dried, sick, rotten ones. Rot or mold should not get into the soil, otherwise other tubers will deteriorate later. Then we disinfect in a weak solution of manganese for 20-25 minutes. Next, we send the gladiolus tubers to germinate in a saucer with a little water. And we inspect the tubers of begonia and dahlia again, the largest ones, on which there are several buds, are divided into several parts. Then we plant both of them in boxes or pots with soil, leaving the tuber neck and buds on the surface. We will plant both in open ground in early May, but for now let them grow and gain strength in the warmth.

Now, in April, you can sow seeds of petunia, marigolds and other plants that tolerate temperature changes well in open ground. By the way, contrary to popular belief that petunias die immediately after a slight cold snap, ordinary petunias tolerate temperature changes well. Full double varietal flowers have a greater chance of dying, but practice shows that flowers sown in mid-April grow beautifully, however, they bloom closer to the end of summer.

At the end of April, when the soil is already well warmed up, asters and other annuals can be sown. Before planting, so that the flowers are larger, scatter peat or humus over the surface of the flower bed with a layer of 5-7 cm and dig up the soil, mixing the layers. Then start sowing the seeds.