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April Gardening Tips
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Plant your hardy perennials. There are literally hundreds of varieties to available, for more info link to our Collections page for ideas.
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Start hardy annual seeds indoors for setting outside next month.
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Cole crops such as broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower can be planted out in your garden now.
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Plant garlic, rhubarb, potatoes, beets, carrots, and other root crops now while soil temperature is still a little cool.
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This is a good month to plant fruit and shade trees, rose bushes, and a variety of other flowering shrubs.
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Plant strawberries and pinch off the first year’s flowers to encourage runners and better plants and fruit the following year.
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Re seeding lawns with grass seed to fill in bare spots as well as starting new lawns with seed is a good thing to do this month.
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Plant hardy summer flowering bulbs such as gladioli and cannas this month.
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Start frost sensitive or warm weather vegetables indoors now: tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, melons, and cucumbers.
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Plant berry plants while the weather is still cool such as Raspberries, Blueberries, Grapes, Huckleberries, etc.
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Plant hardy pansies and enjoy early blooms.
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Fertilize the lawn if you have not done so with a 21-7-14 ratio that includes extra iron and sulfur. Mow your lawn first and water in well.
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Herbs- Plant outdoors hardy perennial herbs and start tender annual herbs indoors for planting outside at a later date.
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