2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
When snowdrops bloom in the forests, many important things are waiting for the gardener. The quality and quantity of the crop largely depends on how correctly and in a timely manner they are carried out. We are talking about gardening classes in April
Every experienced gardener knows that with the arrival of April, you need to do a lot of useful and important things in the garden. Winter holidays are a thing of the past - months ahead filled with pleasant and exciting chores in the garden. So, what is important for the gardener to have time for the month of snowdrops and drops? Here are some helpful tips:
1. Preparing the soil and planting vegetables
* In April, dry soil is loosened with the simultaneous introduction of complex mineral fertilizers and humus.
* They take care of strawberries: cut off dried leaves, introduce fertilizers into the soil. After that, the strawberries are covered with foil.
* Early greens, radishes and carrots are sown on the compost heap. Previously, last year's pile is watered with hot water and sprinkled with a layer of soil (7-8 cm). Then the crops are covered with a film, not forgetting to remove it after the shoots appear. It is worth regularly watering the crops so that the seeds do not dry out.
* In April, cover the soil with foil to protect it from weeds. Then remove the film and loosen the ground. After a day, cover again with foil, and after the appearance of weeds, loosen the soil. This method is good at getting rid of weeds in the upper layers of the soil.
* To get early strawberries, cover its beds with foil.
* Seedlings of tomato and pepper prefer moderate watering and a lot of light, as well as spraying with compounds that protect from pests.
* In April, potato tubers are prepared for planting: in central Russia, tubers are sometimes soaked in warm water before planting for their early germination and disinfection. Dissolve potassium permanganate in water - the solution should be bright pink. The tubers remain in it for about 20 minutes, then they are washed, dried and laid out in a bright and cool room. By the end of April, lay the tubers in a cardboard box in layers, shifting with a newspaper, and leave in a warm room until strong sprouts appear.
* Parsley and dill, cabbage are sown. This is the time for planting carrots, onions, salads, dill, spinach and peas, which are then covered with plastic wrap.
* You can sow seeds of cucumbers, zucchini, squash, pumpkin and early tomatoes on seedlings. It is better to sow zucchini by the end of the month, and tomatoes at the beginning.
* The emerging seedlings (peppers, eggplant and tomatoes) must be hardened, taken out into the street, making sure that direct sunlight does not fall on it, and then brought back into the room.
2. Caring for trees and shrubs
* With the arrival of April, spring pruning of trees and bushes (black currant, gooseberry, honeysuckle) is carried out, during which blackened and old branches are removed. This can be done twice a year - in spring and autumn.
* Before the buds appear, trees and bushes can be sprayed with a solution of ferrous sulfate, according to the instructions, to destroy lichens on the trunks.
* A solution of urea (700 g per 10 l) will remove pests that hibernate in the bark. Plants are sprayed on which leaves began to appear, using non-concentrated infusions of weeds or needles.
* Cuttings are cut, wrapped in a layer of newspaper and polyethylene. By the end of April, trees can be grafted with them.
* The winter binding of trees is removed. Garbage is collected: dry leaves, twigs, last year's mulch, plant residues, spruce branches, and burned.
* Pruning of broken, dry and dead branches is made.
* Fertilizers are applied to the trunks of fruit trees and shrubs (manure, humus or peat).
* By the end of April, seedlings are planted, watered, tied to supports.
3. Work in the flower garden
* In April, grooves are dug to get rid of the moisture from the site.
* Strawberries, roses, irises, clematis, lilies are freed from spruce branches.
* By the end of April, seeds of annuals are sown - poppy, cosmos, cornflowers, Iberis, forget-me-nots.
* Crops of tobacco and petunias are sown in the ground and covered with foil. The film is removed at the end of April from almost all plants, while clematis needs to be insulated.
* Roses, rhododendrons and other thermophilic plants are gradually freed from shelter. But if the temperature drops dramatically at night, they need to be covered at night.
* After the final snow melt, shelters are removed from all crops.
* If the air temperature has risen to 5 degrees C, you can cut the roses.
* In April, the soil is treated with antifungal agents, which can be used both in the fall under the snow and in the spring. But for those who are afraid to cultivate the soil throughout the site, it is better to focus on the greenhouse and greenhouse.
* When sprouts of bulbous plants appear, top dressing, loosening of the soil and spraying from pests are carried out.
* Produce division of perennials - peonies, irises.
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