What to do in your garden during April

In temperate summer-rainfall regions do the following in your garden during April.

Plant & Sow

Annuals

Sow all summer-flowering annuals like: 

Vegetables

Sow vegetables like:

Garden Maintenance

General garden maintenance

• Divide hardy summer-flowering perennials that have become overcrowded.
• Keep the soil well mulched.
• Prepare trenches for sweet peas.
• Consider installing a rainwater tank. Many container-grown plants do best if watered with rainwater.
• Stake dahlias and water and fertilize them regularly.
• Mulch roses well.
• Cut back chrysanthemums.
• Deadhead roses regularly.
• Sow lawn seed.
• Water citrus trees well every three weeks and spray against citrus psylla; water other fruit trees thoroughly every second week.

For April maintenance tips on watering, pruning, pests and disease, fertilizing and much more visit our countrywide maintenance guide.