April monthly gardening activities

Explore our monthly activities to do in the garden with your children and young people in April.

1. Support your peas and beans with canes, twigs or sticks to help them grow. Remember to add cane toppers to your supports to help avoid any accidental injuries.
2. Protect any fruit trees and bushes in the garden from late frosts by covering them with fleece when temperatures drop.
3. Take softwood cuttings from your herbs, Pelargoniums, houseplants and climbers - why not share them with your local community?
4. Tie in climbing and rambling roses.
5. If you have a lawn in your garden, April is the month to sow new seed and repair any bare patches that may have appeared during winter.
6. Tidy up plants in the bog garden, and mulch with composted bark.
7. Chit and plant second early potatoes in the first half of the month, then plant out main crop potatoes in the second half of the month.
8. If you have a greenhouse or warm windowsill, you can sow tomatoes, peppers and chillies. if you already have seedlings of these, once they have developed their true leaves you can pot them up individually.
9. Sow hardy annuals such as marigolds and sunflowers, along with herbs like coriander or parsley.
10. Forced rhubarb, spring onions and spring cauliflowers will all be ready to harvest.

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