날씨가 선선한 동안, 파다 5 또는 6 당신의 침대와 당신의 다년생 식물 주위에 뿌리 덮개의 센티미터 층, 나무와 관목. 잘 썩은 거름과 같은 유기물을 사용하여 바쁜 성장기에 대비하십시오.. You might also work in a general purpose fertiliser such as pelleted chicken manure or fish, blood and bone meal.
Prepare vegetable seed beds by removing all weeds and forking in plenty of compost. Cover prepared soil with sheets of black plastic to keep it drier and warmer in preparation for planting. If you are feeling industrious now, build raised beds to take the bending out of growing vegetables later.
Once you are satisfied with your earthy preparations, the planting can begin. At last your chitted potatoes may now go outside in the ground or in potato grow bags.
Many crops can be sown directly into the ground now including parsnips, cabbages and radishes.
Thin your carrot seedlings to achieve good-size carrots – do this in the evening when fewer carrot flies are around.
Harvest asparagus spears when they are no more than 18cm tall.
Water butts are a worthwhile investment for the season ahead.
Make sure bird baths and bird feeders are kept topped up, sparing a thought for the poor males who must sing ceaselessly from first light to keep their mate’s attentions from wandering.
“Well-apparel’d April on the heel
Of limping Winter treads.”윌리엄 셰익스피어
She who from April dates her years,
Diamonds shall wear, lest bitter tears
For vain repentance flow; this stone,
Emblem of innocence, is known.“Winter’s done, and April’s in the skies,
Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes!”
Charles G. 디. Roberts, An April Adoration, 1896
“The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee, a clover, anytime, to him, is aristocracy.”
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