APRIL
Garden essentials:
- Plant annual seeds of asters, cosmos, marigolds, zinnias.
- Take stored fuchsias and geraniums outdoors; cover if frost returns.
- Finish garden cleanup and fertilizing.
- Start your garden log now while spring energy reigns!
Veggies year-round:
- Thin direct-seeded crops as they sprout.
- Sow carrots and parsnips.
- Late in the month, plant squash, zucchini, pumpkins and cucumber seeds indoors in large peat pots. "Jack-Be-Little" mini-pumpkins delight children!
Lawn care:
- Fertilize in late April, using a 3-1-2 ratio slow-release or natural organic formulation.
- Mow regularly.
- Recycle grass clippings on to lawn, "grasscycling."
