GEOFF'S
GARDEN NOTES FOR APRIL
Dry weather seems to be at a premium as I write these notes but hopefully
by the time you are reading them the weather will be more favourable.
With the soil so wet delay sowing until conditions improve.
Hardy annuals
can then be sown where they are to flower, sow them in small drills
or drifts and then thin out the seedlings to the distance suitable to
the type you have sown. Those of you with greenhouses should now be
pricking out your half hardy annuals ready to go out into the cold frames
later in the month for hardening off. Open up the greenhouses during
mild or sunny days to allow good ventilation.
Those of
you with Hostas just coming through should watch out for slugs and snails
which will attack the young shoots, a good method is to cover the area
with something like calcified seaweed or alternatively use "Sluggit"
which is dissolved in water and watered on with a watering can.
Pick up the dead snails and slugs the next day and dispose of them so
that the birds do not pick them over.
Don't be
tempted to buy tender bedding plants this month unless you can give
them some protection as the slightest frost will devastate them. Watch
out for these frosts in the vegetable plot, cover emerging potato shoots
with newspaper, not plastic, as the frost will penetrate the latter.
Keep your
eyes open for the annual pests like greenfly etc; and get to work on
them early to keep them under control. Make a note of Saturday May 18th
when we will have our annual plant sale at 38 Wingfield St. If you have
any spare good quality plants please bring them along a day or so before.
If you don't need any plants please still come along and have a look
round the garden, you may find something of interest.
Fred
was resting in the lounge, his glasses lying on the table. "You
know dear" said Freda, "Without your glasses on I could mistake
you for the handsome man I married all those years ago" "Funny
you should say that" said Fred, "Without my glasses on you
don't look so bad yourself".
G. Went
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