As April progressesyou can get sowing with summer vegetables outdoors. Peas are a good start,
making further sowings at three week intervals until early June.
You can try
dwarf French beans grown in pots in the greenhouse. Harden off plants grown in
cold frames – onion, leek, cauliflower, pea, broad bean and lettuce – ready to
plant out later in the month. Train and top dress early cucumbers grown in
frames. Start leeks in a greenhouse.
dwarf French beans grown in pots in the greenhouse. Harden off plants grown in
cold frames – onion, leek, cauliflower, pea, broad bean and lettuce – ready to
plant out later in the month. Train and top dress early cucumbers grown in
frames. Start leeks in a greenhouse.
- Sow globe artichokes,
spinach, carrots, turnips kohl rabi, radishes, lettuces, spring onions, summer
cabbages and cauliflowers. - Plant onion sets
- Feed spring cabbages
- Protect early potatoes and plant second-early and maincrop
- Plant out vegetable seedlings (greenhouse raised and cold frame hardened) around
mid April but watch out for frosts - Sow winter greens, Brussels
sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage - Sow marrow, ridge
cucumbers, melons in a greenhouse - Sow runner beans, endive
- Get asparagus beds
ready - Dig celery trenches and
prepare beds for cucumbers, marrows and tomatoes