April Autumn Gardening Advice

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An April Autumn check list for your garden!

Vegetables

Harvest pumpkins and store in a cool, dry place. Kumara should also be harvested before the first frost. Planting winter vegetables – cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, silverbeet, spinach and beetroot in a raised garden will help with drainage, also don’t forget slug bait as they will love to nibble on your winter greens.

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Fruit

Once pip and stone fruit trees have lost theirs leaves you can prune them on a fine dry day. Follow immediately with a spray of lime sulphate and then a copper spray to protect then against leaf curl, black spot, leaf spot and blight come June/July. Prune feijoas bushes once all fruit is harvested.

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Flowers

It’s now time to replace summer annuals with winter flowers like primula, polyanthus, pansy and viola, dianthus and Iceland poppies. Sweet peas planted now in a nice sunny spot with flower in spring. Ensure spring bulbs are planted now if you haven’t done so already. Autumn in a great time to plant new shrubs like camelias and rhododendrons, if planted now their roots will be established before winter.

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Lawns

Now is the best time to put down a new lawn, as you will get less weed growth than in spring time. Turfix weed spray will control weeds in existing lawns and a top dress with a slow-release lawn fertiliser will green the lawn without strong leaf growth.