Discover some of the best vegetables to plant in April, including tips for sowing the crops both indoors and directly outdoors into the vegetable garden
The fast-growing vegetable can be sown directly into the soil this month and you can be picking the first harvest of spinach leaves in less than 30 days. Pick a hardy winter cultivar of spinach to sow in a sunny position and sow seeds outdoors an inch deep in drills, thinning seedlings ...
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Peas are another cool-season crop that grows best in containers and shady gardens. The key to planting this vegetable is timing because you want to start cultivating the seed in the soil and harvest the produce before the weather gets too hot. Peas are space-saving crops as they best grow ...
sowing of the catch crops can be done in between the main ones or after harvesting at the end of the season. It is important to know how long a crop takes to mature when planning catch cropping, so that you don't sow anything that takes too long to mature in between the main crops...
There’s no simple answer to the question of “when is the best time to plant vegetables in the UK”, so the best solution is to check the information on seed packets before you sow. Here are a few examples of how the UK planting season for various vegetables can differ: ...
Freshly grown sweetcorn is such a treat, so for us it’s a must have crop each year. We sow seeds in deep root trainers during April. This year we planted out the seedlings in early June, 42 plants on plot 2 and a further 18 plants on the orchard plot. ...
Andrew Hague on Thursday 22 April 2021 "Hi Andrew. That's a good time to sow parsnips, at least here in the UK. The Greyhound cabbages may just about race through to harvest before the parsnips need the extra space - could be worth a try I reckon."Ben Vanheems on Friday 23 April ...
You gotta know what to sow and what to plant: Veggies and Herbs As a continuance of my Kenny Roger’s themed article last monthon sowing and planting at appropriate soil temperatures, I thought this month I’d approach “Know when to sow ‘em, know when to plant ‘em” in a different...
In late April 2007, I began to plan an organic vegetable garden for one side of our house. We had a garden (if you could call it that), that was the main entrance and it was half dead because of the lack of rain. We thought that if we built the garden beds as a feature of th...