April Garden Checklist
In most places, it’s pretty safe to start thinking gardening when April rolls around. Here’s your April garden checklist.
Early April
• Plant some garden peas. They are easy to grow and add great taste to all sorts of dishes.
• If the danger of frost is over in your area, plant fuchsias, pelargoniums and geraniums.
• Start the brightening up by planting annuals and perennials.
• Don’t have room in the garden for vegetables? Consider using containers for tomatoes, eggplant, cucumber or green peppers.
Mid April
• Got roses? Now’s the time to feed them to increase the number and size of your blooms.
• If you know of dry spots in your garden, plant drought resistant, attractive shrubs like crape myrtle, oleander, wild lilac and rosemary.
• For sunny, hot locations in the garden try geraniums.
Mid-to-late April
• Plant gardenia shrubs in a warm, sunny corner for sweet scent and lovely flowers. Try planting them under a window for a special treat when the breeze blows in!
• Begin mulching in flowerbeds around shrubs and annuals to conserve moisture and reduce weeds.
• Want great color? Try planting petunias about now. For more blooming, pull off dead blooms every day.
• If deciduous flowering shrubs have bloomed, it’s the best time to prune them.
• When camellias, azaleas and rhododendrons stop blooming, feed them with acid fertilizer.
Late April
• Feed the lawn.
• Prune flowers, shrubs and trees.
• Watch for moth damage.
• Control slugs, earwigs and aphids.
• Plant seeds and seedlings.
In most places, it’s pretty safe to start thinking gardening when April rolls around. Here’s your April garden checklist.
Early April
• Plant some garden peas. They are easy to grow and add great taste to all sorts of dishes.
• If the danger of frost is over in your area, plant fuchsias, pelargoniums and geraniums.
• Start the brightening up by planting annuals and perennials.
• Don’t have room in the garden for vegetables? Consider using containers for tomatoes, eggplant, cucumber or green peppers.
Mid April
• Got roses? Now’s the time to feed them to increase the number and size of your blooms.
• If you know of dry spots in your garden, plant drought resistant, attractive shrubs like crape myrtle, oleander, wild lilac and rosemary.
• For sunny, hot locations in the garden try geraniums.
Mid-to-late April
• Plant gardenia shrubs in a warm, sunny corner for sweet scent and lovely flowers. Try planting them under a window for a special treat when the breeze blows in!
• Begin mulching in flowerbeds around shrubs and annuals to conserve moisture and reduce weeds.
• Want great color? Try planting petunias about now. For more blooming, pull off dead blooms every day.
• If deciduous flowering shrubs have bloomed, it’s the best time to prune them.
• When camellias, azaleas and rhododendrons stop blooming, feed them with acid fertilizer.
Late April
• Feed the lawn.
• Prune flowers, shrubs and trees.
• Watch for moth damage.
• Control slugs, earwigs and aphids.
• Plant seeds and seedlings.
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