Gardening Hints & Tips for the month
APRIL 2025
What to do in the garden in April.
April Gardening Jobs Essential Checklist
- Prune spring-flowering shrubs
- Plant hanging baskets
- Weed borders
- Plant out sweet peas
- Sow a variety of seeds
- Regularly mow and feed your lawn
- Aerate your lawn
- Take cuttings of tender plants
- Plant main crop potatoes
- Feed blackcurrants, gooseberries and other cane fruit such as blackberries and raspberries
- Tidy up strawberry beds
Prune spring-flowering shrubs
Shrubs such as Winter Jasmine, Forsythia and Chaenomeles will finish flowering in April. Once their display begins to fade, prune these shrubs by cutting a third of the growth away and then feed. Lavenders and other grey-leaved shrubs flourish in poor, well drained soils and do not need feeding. They benefit from a light trim, cutting about 5cm of growth, to stop them getting leggy and woody.
Hanging Baskets
For beautiful displays in the summer, plant hanging baskets now and grow them in a greenhouse.