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April Jobs Calendar

 

   

Vegetable Beds

  • Plant Second Early Potatoes - early April
  • Plant Main Crop Potatoes - late April
  • Earth up early potatoes - especially to protect from frost
  • Plant main crop peas for August cropping
  • Support for early peas
  • Continue planting Broad Beans and Peas
  • Thin leek seedlings to 1.5 inches
  • Sow Parsley, salsify and scorzonera, turnip, carrots, leeks,
  • Brassica - sow cabbages, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, broccolis in protected seed bed
  • Sow Lettuce - in rows in plots, and pots at home
  • Sow Beetroot, Spinach, Leaf Beet/Chard (late in month)
  • Sow Sweetcorn in toilet roll tubes inside house
  • Prepare beds for Squashes and Cucumbers
  • Sow herb seeds - dill, basil etc

Fruit

What's in Season?

  • First Rhubarb of season!
  • Broccoli - Sprouting
  • Cabbage - Spring Greens
  • Leek
  • Rocket
  • Spinach
  • Swiss Chard
  • Turnip Tops
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