Gardening calendar 4th week April 2022
Fruit and vegetables
Finally, as the weather starts to warm up and the risk of frost passes you can start to think about sowing salad crops and other vegetables. Including Coriander, summer salad leaves and root crops such as beetroot and carrots
Here is a link to some more information on sowing vegetable seeds
Spring pest control
As the weather starts to warm and when the current dry spell ends with some rain the slugs will start to become active so it’s important to plan ahead with some beer traps and slug nematodes
Here is a link to some more information on spring pest control
Weed control
As the spring warms and your plants start to grow so do the weeds. Most can be taken care of with mulching but more persistent weeds such as ground elder and bindweed need to be treated with weed killer
Here is a link to some more information on Weed control
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