April naturally also has a lot of work to do in the garden.
Here is a short list of the things that should be done now:
Sowing/growing on the windowsill or in the greenhouse:
- Bush Beans
- Fennel
- Cucumber
- Kohlrabi
- Herbs
- Pumpkin
- Sweetcorn
- Melon
- Brussels sprouts
- Lettuces
- Runner bean
- Pointed cabbage
- Tomatoes
- Courgettes
- Columbine
- Aster
- Dahlias
- Man’s wort
- Sunflower
Direct sowing into the bed:
- Leaf lettuce
- Broccoli
- Peas
- Spring onions
- Turnip greens
- Swiss chard
- Carrots
- Palm kale
- Parsley root
- Radish
- Beetroot
- Brussels sprouts
- Spinach
- Pointed cabbage
- Root parsley
- Annual summer flowers
- Nasturtium
- Cornflower
- Snapdragon
- Poppy
- Punk bindweed
- Marigold
- Gypsophila
- Summer asters
- Sunflower
Planting ornamental plants in the bed:
- Dahlias
- Garden freesias
- Gladioli
- Lilies
- Montbretias
- Nerine
- Giant hyacinth
- Roses
- Summer hyacinths
- Tiger flowers
- Gypsy flower
Planting in the ground:
- Potatoes (the temperature of the soil should be at least 7°C)
- Cauliflower
- Fennel (pre-grown)
- Kohlrabi
- Swiss chard
- Lettuces
- Chives
- Pointed cabbage
- Onion sets
- Monthly, climbing and frigo strawberries (April or early May)
- Young quince trees
Open field harvest:
- Leaf lettuce
- Chicory
- Leeks
- Asparagus
- Spinach
- Rhubarb (from the end of April)
Greenhouse harvest:
- Lamb’s lettuce
- Kohlrabi
- Celeriac
- Swiss chard
- Radishes
For the following pre-grown plants, you should start hardening them off in April and place them on the patio at temperatures from 8 °C (but make sure that the plants do not get ‘sunburnt’):
- Tomato
- Aubergine
- Sweet pepper
- Andean berry
- Oleander
You can usually plant out these plants after the Ice Saints in May.
You can enjoy these flowers and perennials this month, as they bloom in April:
- Anemones
- Blue Cushions
- Daisies
- Hyacinth
- Iris
- Crocus
- Dandelion
- Daffodil
- Cushion phlox
- Primrose
- Chess flower
- Tulip
- Forget-me-not
And these shrubs and bushes bloom in April:
- Blue rain
- Bridal spirea
- Forsythia
- Bluebell hazel
- Judas tree
- Almond tree
- Tulip tree
- Tulip magnolia
- Ornamental cherry
In spring, of course, there are also spring-flowering plants such as the forsythia. These will have faded by mid-April and should be thinned out so that the plants can delight you with their splendour again next year.
To do this, you should remove the oldest branches close to the ground so that the young shoots have a good chance of developing again next year.
If you have bought a seed mixture for wildflowers, butterfly flowers or similar, you should also scatter these seeds this month on the loosened soil provided for this purpose so that the seeds have the opportunity to develop and take root.