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Vegetable Garden in April
 
Week 14   2nd-8th

Prick out cabbage cauliflower seedlings.

Prepare Spinach beds

Plant out Shallots in pre-prepared ground if weather and soil conditions are suitable.

Top dress / mulch Chives

Week 15   9th-15th

Sow Rhubarb Turnip

Make an early sowing of french beans, outdoors under cloches if ground conditions allow.

Place cabbage plants in coldframe.

Prepare beds for Brassicas Onions Sweet corn

Divide and replant Thyme

Plant out early potatoes

Week 16   16th-22nd

Ridge up the rows of Asparagus, and apply a general fertiliser.

Sow peas

Week 17   23rd-29th

Maincrop potatoes can be planted from now until early May if weather and ground conditions allow

Sow Runner beans

Prepare Broad bean, French Bean, and Leek beds.

 
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