What to do in your garden in April 2010

• Sow lettuce, beetroot and other hardy crops in modules if the ground isn’t ready to go yet.
• Feed the soil with compost, leafmould and well rotted manure where it is needed
• Shade seedlings in the greenhouse or on a windowsill on sunny days
• Plant potatoes, in the ground or in pots.

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Plant bare root strawberries

Protect early blossom from frost

Prune fan trained cherries and plums

Check gooseberries and currants for early greenfly

Fruit garden jobs..

Plant out hardy herbs

Sow pot marigolds

Prune lavender into shape

Take softwood cuttings

Herb garden jobs..

Prune early flowering shrubs that have finished flowering

Divide early spring flowering bulbs

Mulch ornamental borders

Ornamental garden jobs..

• Many seeds can be sown now. Sow seeds direct into the ground outside or in to modules and trays for transplanting next month.

• Slug control Protect young seedlings and plants from slugs. Water on the biological control nematode for several weeks protection, preferably in advance of planting out. Or use some of the many other methods described on our factsheet Controlling slugs and snails.