April Gardening in progress - What have you been doing?

GreenBucket24

The month of April started with lots of sunshine in my area. Been busy in the garden, power-washed our fences and the patios. Done all the gardening tasks in the Kerb Appeal. Mowed and then scarified our front lawn, can't believed of 6 full bags of moss from the lawn.  Have plans for the next improvement  - there is always something to do

Have seen new growths of the Fountain Crystal Clematis and other plants in our Xeriscape Garden.

The presence of wildlife in their 'BirdsTheatre' that we watch their activities and listen to their chirps daily from our windows or out in the garden, they are very friendly and not afraid of us, give us joy. We are happy to have birds sanctuary (that shrubbery behind our fence). 


Have moved to the back garden, mowed then scarified 1/3 of our back lawn so far, with 8 full bags of moss to be delivered to the recycling centre . Then today, the heavy rain arrived, and everything stopped. It's telly time instead ...

Tomorrow will be another nice day according to the weather forecast, we plan for a garden BBQ on either Thursday or Friday with the lovely sunshine around, and it will lead us up to Monday. Looking forward to more gardening tasks for Spring. And yes, in our area the lovely Spring Weather will begin officially on Saturday   

kiss_me_now9

Sounds like you're getting some lovely weather! It's been wet, wet, wet with a side of wet here. I've started almost everything I want for the year now I think though and it's all just doing it's own thing for the moment.

elsien

Beggar all due to the weather.
Other than digging up large quantities of surplus bluebells, which was at least easy to do because the ground were so wet they came up easily. 

Cheslea2010

Everything taking a back seat at the moment. Hope we have an extended summer to make up for lost time. A tall order I know!

sammy_kaye18

Have a few things starting in the greenhouse from seed, actually surprised I put the greenhouse up and all my prep to help it stay put seems to have worked so far. 
Nothing planted in the actual garden other than a blueberry bush and a mini apple tree in pots which I had to check yesterday as I wasnt convinced either was more than sticks in buckets. 
Have bits I want to do but just cant with the weather. 

Wales seems to be having rain with a healthy dose of extra rain and a side of blustery gales to top it off although today fog moved in about 2.30pm but you guessed it - still raining. 

moneysaver1978

Garland Super7 propagator arrived last week and have so far planted tumbling tomatoes and flat-leaved parsley.

Waiting for a better weather soon (sick of the wind and rain!) so we can start replacing broken/fallen fence panels/posts!

Silvertabby

Chillies and toms now potted on and residing on the spare bedroom windowsills.  Still too cold in my unheated greenhouse for the tender stuff, but the annual flower seeds I planted in there a couple of weeks ago are all showing signs of life.  

Very wet here, so can't do much in the way of outdoor gardening, but managed to give a borders a good tidy last week.  Looks like all of my echinaceas have survived, which isn't always a given in cold clay.  

GreenBucket24

kiss_me_now9 said:

Sounds like you're getting some lovely weather! It's been wet, wet, wet with a side of wet here. I've started almost everything I want for the year now I think though and it's all just doing it's own thing for the moment.

@kiss_me_now9 Yes, the wet weather has impacted everyone and everywhere ... it was just recently that lovely sunshine has been plentiful. Today was very nice as forecasted. Enjoyed the day and started maintaining our Strawberries bed.

GreenBucket24

elsien said:

Beggar all due to the weather.
Other than digging up large quantities of surplus bluebells, which was at least easy to do because the ground were so wet they came up easily. 

@elsien i love digging plants that needed transplanting or dividing during wet weather as it was easier and lighter to maneuver. 

On the other hand, dividing plants facilitates savings instead of buying new plants. Are your bluebells Spanish bluebells? or Scottish bluebells? 

GreenBucket24

Cheslea2010 said:

Everything taking a back seat at the moment. Hope we have an extended summer to make up for lost time. A tall order I know!

@Cheslea2010, It will be most beneficial to have an extended summer days  and shorter cooler and rainy days - is that a wishful thinking for now?

GreenBucket24

sammy_kaye18 said:

Have a few things starting in the greenhouse from seed, actually surprised I put the greenhouse up and all my prep to help it stay put seems to have worked so far. 
Nothing planted in the actual garden other than a blueberry bush and a mini apple tree in pots which I had to check yesterday as I wasnt convinced either was more than sticks in buckets. 
Have bits I want to do but just cant with the weather. 

Wales seems to be having rain with a healthy dose of extra rain and a side of blustery gales to top it off although today fog moved in about 2.30pm but you guessed it - still raining. 

@sammy_kaye18, I would love to plant a blueberry bush, but our summers are very short and our temperature is always colder because of the winds. Very infrequent to have lovely continuous sunny weather. During Spring to Summer in our area, it rains at night and then sunshine during the day, which i love as i can do my gardening during the sunny hours of the morning to early afternoon.