Spring is springing and the grass is rising! Despite the April showers and sometimes icy winds, the sun, when it shines, is beginning to hold some real warmth. Responding to the lengthening days and warming soil, fruit trees are blossoming and the seeds you have sown indoors should be growing well.
You can now start sowing some seeds outdoors, but be watchful for frosty nights.
Garden duty
Continue or start planting tomato, pepper and aubergine seeds indoors. Also marrows, courgettes, pumpkins and squash can be started.
If it was too cold in March for outdoor sowing, then now you can sow seed outdoors for beetroot, carrots, chard, leeks, radish, spring onions, peas and spinach. Prepare the soil well, raking and removing stones and large clumps of soil.
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