List of works at the dacha in April
In April, the last snow melts in the bright sun, the ground begins to dry out, the first flowers appear, and the first leaves appear on the trees. The garden comes to life.
This month we can already rejoice at those who survived the winter safely autumn plantings and remove winter shelters (spruce branches, a thick layer of dry leaves) so that the plants have the opportunity to develop further - on fresh air and sunlight.
Consider the climate of your area: if you remove the covers too early, you can cause irreparable damage to the plants.
Signs of April
If at the beginning of April the snow surface is rough, it means harvest.
Thunderstorm in early April - to warm summer and the nut harvest.
April with water - May with grass.
Wet April is good arable land.
Work according to the lunar calendar for April
Waxing Crescent. Pruning of trees and shrubs is not recommended. A favorable time for watering and applying mineral fertilizers, sowing tomato seedlings and early ripening varieties of peppers. A good time for loosening seedlings and working indoors, grafting fruit trees and shrubs.
Full moon. At this time, you should not sow, plant, replant, or prune anything. You can check garden tools.
Waning moon. At this time, you can put the potato tubers in a warm room for germination, in the trunk circles of fruit trees and shrubs, and on strawberry beds apply fertilizer over the melting snow. Remove coverings from trees, shrubs and perennial flowers.
List of garden work for April
In April, to prevent fungal diseases (scab, septoria), it is recommended to treat the tree trunks of fruit trees with a solution of urea (700 g), ammonium nitrate (1 kg) or nitroammophoska (1 kg), diluted in 10 liters of water.
April - good time for removing dried pears, apple trees, plums, and cherries from the area, as they are the source of most fungal diseases.
Shrubs can be treated with copper sulfate.
Sowing vegetables in April
In April, seeds of cold-resistant crops begin to be sown in the soil.
At the beginning of April, they continue to germinate potatoes, regularly checking them for diseases. A week before planting, the tubers are laid in one layer and covered with compost or sawdust. Filled potatoes will germinate faster. But you shouldn’t keep potatoes under peat for a long time, as they form roots that can intertwine and be injured during planting.
About 4 days before planting, potatoes are sprayed with a special nutrient solution (1.5 tablespoons of superphosphate, 1 tablespoon of potassium sulfate per 10 liters of water).
Potatoes are planted when the soil warms up to +8 °C.
❧ The time for planting potatoes can be determined by birch trees. As soon as the trees begin to turn green, it means you can plant potatoes.
At the beginning of the month, they begin to sow radishes, peas, dill, cabbage without seedlings, lettuce, rhubarb, carrots, leaf celery, and parsnips.
First of all, you need to sow radishes, since due to lengthening daylight hours there is a possibility of the vegetable bolting. Spinach is sown in the same bed with radishes. It will help protect root crops from damage by the cruciferous flea beetle.
Next to the radishes you can place beds with onions and garlic. Radishes are a good predecessor to cucumbers. Radishes are best sown after nightshade crops, cucumbers and beans.
In the middle of the month you can start sowing beets if the soil temperature is +8-10 degrees. In this situation, seedlings will appear within 2 weeks.
At the same time, chard (chard) is sown. This plant can be cut for a long time and used to make salads, soups and cabbage rolls (photo).
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Favorable time for planting chives. Shoots that appear after 3-4 weeks are thinned out. By the end of summer, onions give a good harvest.
When planting carrots, the beds can be thickened a little. After the root vegetables reach 1 cm in thickness, the excess ones are pulled out and used for food. Those remaining will gain weight and volume by the end of the season.
The garlic left over from the winter is planted in the garden beds. It grows more slowly than the one that was planted in the fall, but as a result it reaches the same size. In April, they lay out the beds, taking into account the compatibility of crops. Perennial crops are sown taking into account that areas occupied by sorrel and rhubarb will be excluded from crop rotation for a couple of years. In April, they continue to grow the seedlings that were planted earlier, the seedlings are planted, and fertilizing is applied.
In the middle of the month you can start hardening off the seedlings early cabbage. Mid-season varieties are planted in open ground in the end of April. At the same time, seedlings of peppers, tomatoes and eggplants are hardened off.
Caring for bushes in April
In April, you should inspect the blackcurrant and gooseberry bushes for the presence of twisted tops of branches - they need to be cut out and burned, these are traces of powdery mildew.
When the snow melts, prune the bushes if you did not do this in the fall. Weak, diseased and broken branches are cut out. In gooseberries, red and white currants, all branches older than 8 years are cut out, in black currants - older than 4 years. If the currant has shoots affected by the bud mite, they are also cut off and burned.
Raspberry branches are freed, dry and weak young shoots are removed. Healthy shoots are lifted and tied onto trellises.
Work in the flower garden in April
In April it is important to take care of roses. Their shelters are gradually removed, the bushes are pruned, fed, and treated against diseases and pests. First of all, urea or ammonium nitrate is added (20 g per 10 liters of water). Bushes spud at the base of the stems. When there is a threat of night frosts, the growing shoots are covered.
In April they continue to care for flower seedlings. Every 10 days, water with settled water and apply mineral fertilizers. In the second half of April, you can take out the seedlings for hardening.
At the beginning of the month, the last sowings of annual seedlings are carried out. Flowers such as marigolds, sweet peas, nasturtiums, and zinnias are sown while maintaining an interval between seeds (3-4 cm). Cover with film. After the threat of frost has passed, the seedlings can be transplanted to permanent place to the flower garden.
Perennial flowers (aquilegia, gaillardia, carnations, delphinium, bluebells, cornflower) are sown in the greenhouse as soon as the soil warms up.
At the beginning of April, it is important to pick up the seedlings. The first time the March crops are harvested, the second time the February crops. At the end of the month, you can sow and plant plants in a semi-warm or cold greenhouse.
They bring complex mineral fertilizer with a high nitrogen content. First, the March crops are fed. The first time is 7-10 days after the pick, the second time is 14 days later.
Do not forget to feed bulbs and perennials (phlox, irises, hemerocalis, astilbe, hosta, primrose, lilies of the valley, daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses, scylla, snowdrops, muscari, etc.). Add a mixture of nitrogen and potash fertilizers (2:1).
April is the time when you can divide peonies, irises, hemerocalis, astishba, phlox, delphiniums, chrysanthemums, etc. Peonies begin to divide after the soil has completely thawed. Irises work in the spring in a short time, i.e. until they entered the active growth phase. Phloxes, hemerocalises, astilbes, delphiniums, and chrysanthemums can be divided over a more extended period. However, they will survive better if divided before active growth begins.
In April, you can divide the dahlia root tubers and put them in a warm place for growing. After the appearance of sprouts 5-7 cm high, some of them are cut into cuttings and planted in a pot filled with fertile soil and clean sand. The pot is placed in a bright place at a temperature of +20 °C.
In the second half of April you can plant coniferous trees. They try to plant so as not to damage the earthen ball; the root collar is left on. soil level. Planted trees are watered abundantly and shaded.
After the soil has thawed, dried and warmed up, prepare an area for sowing annual crops (cornflowers, godetia, dimorphotheca, iberis, poppy, matthiola, mignonette, scabiosa, phlox, calendula, gypsophila, levkoy, sunflower, statice, clarkia, lavatera, eschscholzia , foxglove, purslane). If the soil was not fertilized in the fall, then add superphosphate (50 g/m2) and potassium sulfate (25 g/m2) and dig it to a depth of 18 cm.
In the second ten days of the month, you can sow perennials in the greenhouse (aquilegia, gaillardia, pinnate carnation, delphinium, bells, cornflower and pyrethrum). The air temperature for seed germination is +15-22 degrees.
At the beginning of April, begonia tubers are removed from the basement, cleaned of dried roots and soil residues and placed for 30 minutes in a 0.05% solution of potassium permanganate. Large tubers with buds are cut sharp knife into several parts so that each part has 1 bud. The cut sites are processed charcoal, after which the plants are planted in earth mixture and put up for growing. Begonias grow well at temperatures not lower than +18 °C. Begonias should not be allowed to dry out.
Vineyard care in April
At the beginning of the month, as soon as the soil dries out and the air temperature no longer drops to -10 ° C, the grape bushes can be opened. First of all, this applies to coverings with earth on chernozem and loamy soils. If the grapes were covered with peat, pine needles or sawdust, they are removed before the eyes swell.
At the beginning of April, organic and mineral fertilizers are applied to the grooves and then covered with earth. You can also apply liquid fertilizing combined with watering.
Bunches of vines must be attached to the trellis without untying. The vines are cleared of soil and plant debris.
If the bushes were affected last year, it is time to spray to prevent diseases and pests. It is recommended to use nitrafen (200-300 g per 10 liters of water). The grapes are processed at a temperature of +4-5 °C.
If you remove the cover from the grapes and notice that they are covered with a white coating of mold, do not be alarmed - in a couple of hours the coating will disappear.
In the second half of April, when the likelihood of frost is low, dry garter is made. The sleeves are tied obliquely, and the fruit arrows are tied horizontally, with the ends slightly bent in an arc. If the bush is formed correctly, then the fruit arrows will fill the first wire evenly, without overlapping each other.
In the middle of the month, you can plant woody grape seedlings.
Other works in April
In addition to the main work, cuttings for grafting are prepared in April ornamental shrubs. The cuttings are wrapped in a wet cloth, then placed in cellophane and placed on the ground with north side any building.
In April you can start pruning bushes.
If there is a reservoir on the site, it will be reactivated.
The lawn is tidied up with heavy rakes, damaged areas are repaired with turf, and nitrogen fertilizers are applied. At the end of April, the lawn can be mowed.
It's raining, April is getting warmer,
It's foggy all night, and in the morning
The spring air is definitely chilling
And turns blue with a soft haze
In distant clearings in the forest.
And the green forest quietly slumbers,
And in the silver of forest lakes
Even slimmer than his columns,
Even fresher than the pine crowns
And delicate larches pattern!
Ivan Bunin
The long-awaited warm month of April has arrived. The time for urgent spring work is coming.
Their preparation began already in March, and at the beginning of the month all early spring plant care work that was not completed in March due to bad weather or for some other reason should be completed.
What work in the garden
provides our April calendar
and what needs to be tackled now?
Garden work calendar for April
April is a responsible month, preceding active work in the garden, a time when you need to do a lot, take care of a lot. The garden wakes up from hibernation and despite the sharp temperature contrasts in nature, this is the most interesting period of spring.
So that our garden gives us vigorous flowering and a rich harvest, it is important to plan correctly April work in
his garden.
- First of all, we need to lower excess water from the site .
Stagnation of water is especially dangerous on raspberries, strawberries and clematis.
- Remove winter shelters (spruce branches) from clematis, lilies and young strawberry plantings so that the plants have the opportunity to develop further - in fresh air and sunlight. Here it is very important to take into account the climate of your area: if you remove the covers too early, you can cause irreparable damage to the plants: their flowers may freeze during return frosts.
— To prevent fungal diseases (scab, septoria), it is recommended to treat the tree trunks of fruit trees with a solution of urea (700 g), ammonium nitrate (1 kg) or nitroammophoska (1 kg), diluted in 10 liters of water.
— Pruning the bushes, if you haven’t done this in the fall, starting with bushes, gooseberries and honeysuckle. Weak, diseased and broken branches should be cut out. In gooseberries, red and white currants, all branches older than 8 years are cut out, in black currants - older than 4 years. If the currant has shoots affected by the bud mite, they are also cut off and burned. In honeysuckle, pruning of branches that thicken the crown or broken branches is done.
Shaping pruning of shrubs
- You shouldn’t rush to trim and you should wait until traces of freezing after wintering become clearly visible, and it’s even better to leave their pruning for the fall. The same applies to apple trees. After a harsh winter, the ends of the branches could freeze, but some of the branches will be able to recover from the buds on the bark, so there is no need to rush to prune the branches; it is better to leave the pruning until the end of summer. Frozen wood has a light brown color when cut. You should start pruning from the end of the branch and, gradually moving from the end to the skeletal branches, get to the place where the cut is light - from this place the tree tissue is alive and there is no need to cut further.
— Inspect the blackcurrant and gooseberry bushes for the presence of twisted tops of branches - they need to be cut out and burned, these are traces of powdery mildew.
- Release the raspberry branches; dry and weak young shoots - remove. Raise healthy shoots and tie them to trellises.
— Shrubs can be treated with copper sulfate.
- Proceed with an open root system.
— Perform soil cultivation (loosening) in tree trunk circles fruit trees, around bushes, and between strawberry rows to a depth of 8-10 cm. - Level the soil with a rake, after which it is recommended to mulch it with peat, humus, manure or sawdust to a thickness of 5-10 cm.
— If necessary, vaccinate and re-graft fruit trees.
-Prepare combustible materials (sawdust, firewood, manure, shavings, brushwood or smoke bombs) for smoking during frosts.
Whitewashing trees
Whitewashing trees
You need to know the best time to do this. Focus on the weather. The sky should be clear, the ground unfrozen, but not yet warmed up, so that the larvae and spores overwintering in the bark do not have time to become active. Last days March - the first days of April are the best time.
First you need to inspect the tree trunks, clean them of growths of moss and lichen, and remove the old bark. After this, all damaged areas of the trunk should be covered with special putty or. And only after this can you begin to directly treat the trees with the solution. A spray gun or a regular brush is often used as a tool. big size. Begin to apply the solution from above, from the forks of the branches, going down.
Garden work calendar for April
Potato
Vernalization of potatoes
- it’s time to take it out of storage and put it out for vernalization in a bright and cool place. Vernalization of potatoes occurs most naturally if planting material, which has not come out of dormancy, is germinated before planting for 20-30 days at a temperature of 12-15 °C. As a last resort, if potatoes need to be planted urgently, they are heated for 3-5 days at a temperature of 20-35 ° C, placing them near heating
devices, and with enough high humidity(tubers are periodically sprinkled with water).
-A week before planting, the tubers are laid in one layer and covered with compost or sawdust. Filled potatoes will germinate faster. The grown tubers are planted, thereby accelerating the ripening of the crop by two weeks. But you should not keep potatoes under compost for a long time, since the resulting roots can intertwine with each other and will be injured during planting.
-Approximately 4 days before planting, potatoes are sprayed with a special nutrient solution (1.5 tablespoons of superphosphate, 1 tablespoon of potassium sulfate per 10 liters of water).
— Potatoes are planted when the soil warms up to +8 °C.
— The time for planting potatoes can be determined by the birch trees. As soon as the trees begin to turn green, it means you can plant potatoes.
Spring care of perennial vegetable crops
Start with caring for perennial vegetables(sorrel, asparagus, rhubarb, perennial onion, etc.)
— Start by caring for perennial vegetables (asparagus, rhubarb, etc.). Loosen the soil on the ridges and feed with mullein (bird droppings) diluted in 10–15 parts of water. For 10 liters of this mixture add 3 matchbox ammonium or potassium nitrate - this will speed up the germination of greenery. Show the same care to beds with perennial spicy crops and overwintered winter garlic.
— If left in the ground for the winter, cover the onions with a greenhouse or just plastic wrap. This will speed up the production of early greens.
— At the beginning of April, you should begin preparing beds for sowing seeds of cold-resistant crops. If the soil has not been fertilized in the fall, it is necessary to add rotted peat or peat, 1 bucket per 1 sq. m. m. Add 1 glass to each bucket wood ash and mix well. If in the fall, when digging the soil, organic and phosphorus-potassium mineral fertilizers were applied, then in April and May only nitrogen fertilizers are applied for sowing and planting vegetables.
— At the beginning of the month, you can start sowing peas, seedless cabbage, lettuce, rhubarb, leaf celery, parsnips, leaf parsley for greens and bush dill.
— In the middle of the month, you can start sowing beets if the soil temperature is +8-10 degrees. In this situation, seedlings will appear within 2 weeks.
— Favorable time for planting chives. Shoots that appear after 3-4 weeks are thinned out. By the end of summer, onions give a good harvest.
— Carrots should be sown as early as possible, while there is a supply of moisture in the soil. Carrot seeds germinate slowly and unfriendly. They must be prepared for sowing in advance: soak in warm water and keep for two days, periodically changing the water. Seed germination accelerates plant development even more. It is carried out in a warm place at a temperature of 20 - 25°C. At the same time, you need to make sure that they are wet all the time. Excess moisture is harmful because it impedes the supply of oxygen necessary for germination. When the first roots appear, the seeds are sown in a sparse line every 0.5 - 1 cm. You should not sow more often, since thinning out the seedlings is not only labor-intensive, but also harmful - by pulling out young plants with their roots, we expose the roots of the neighboring plant and the smell of the pulled out plants attracts carrots. fly.
— Parsley, like carrots, is also sown as early as possible. Its shoots appear only after 18 - 20 days. Seeds are sown in grooves 1.5-2 cm deep, spacing them every 20 cm. Caring for parsley crops is the same as for carrots: regular but moderate watering, loosening, thinning at a distance of 2-3 cm.
- sow as early as possible, since it is cold-resistant, but moisture-loving. The first sowing date is early April. It is better to sow with germinated seeds. The distance between furrows is 12 - 15 cm, between seeds - 0.8 - 1 cm. Since its seeds are large, they are not mixed with sand. It is necessary to remember: it is undesirable to grow radishes in open ground, since cruciferous flea beetle and cabbage fly can ruin all your efforts to grow this crop. It has been noticed that these pests do not penetrate even the simplest shelters, so immediately after sowing, cover the radishes with plastic wrap.
— After emergence, thin out the plants every 3 cm, leaving the strongest ones.
— When the crops are heavily thickened, radishes produce small and ugly root crops.
— When growing radishes, it is very important to keep the beds moist, since in dry beds the root crops become rough and bitter, and with abundant watering, they crack.
Caring for seedlings in April
Tomato seedlings
Pepper seedlings
— In April, they continue to grow the plant that was planted earlier, the seedlings are planted and fertilized.
— In the middle of the month you can start early cabbage. Mid-season varieties are planted in open ground at the end of April. At the same time, seedlings of peppers, tomatoes and eggplants are hardened off.
Calendar of work in the flower garden in April
Spring crocuses are the first to bloom — At the beginning of the month, the last sowings of annual seedlings are carried out. Flowers such as marigolds, sweet peas, nasturtium, zinnia are sown while maintaining an interval between seeds (3-4 cm). Cover with film. After the threat of frost has passed, the seedlings can be transplanted to a permanent place in the flower garden.
— In April they continue to care for. Every 10 days, water with settled water and apply mineral fertilizers. In the second half of April, you can take out the seedlings for hardening. At the beginning of April, it is important to pick up the seedlings. The first time the March crops are picked, the second time - the February crops. At the end of the month, you can sow and plant plants in a semi-warm or cold greenhouse.
Marigold seedlings — Apply complex mineral fertilizer with a high nitrogen content. First, the March crops are fed. The first time is 7-10 days after the pick, the second time is 14 days later.
— In April it is important to take care of .
Their shelters are gradually removed, the bushes are pruned, fed, and treated against diseases and pests.
Caring for roses in spring
First of all, urea or ammonium nitrate is added (20 g per 10 liters of water). Bushes spud at the base of the stems. When there is a threat of night frosts, the growing shoots are covered.
- Do not forget to feed bulbs and perennials (phlox, irises, hemerocalis, astilbe, hosta, primrose, lilies of the valley, daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses, scylla, snowdrops, muscari, etc.). Apply a mixture of nitrogen and potassium fertilizers (2:1).
— April is the time when you can divide peonies, hemerocalis, astilbes, phlox, delphiniums, chrysanthemums, etc. Peonies begin to divide after the soil has completely thawed. — Irises are divided in a short time in the spring, i.e. until they entered the active growth phase. Phloxes, hemerocalises, astilbes, delphiniums, and chrysanthemums can be divided over a more extended period. However, they will survive better if divided before active growth begins.
— In April, you can divide the dahlia root tubers and put them in a warm place for growing. After the appearance of sprouts 5-7 cm high, some of them are cut into cuttings and planted in a pot filled with fertile soil and clean sand. The pot is placed in a bright place at a temperature of +20 °C.
— After the soil has thawed, dried and warmed up, prepare an area for sowing annual crops (cornflowers, godetia, dimorphotheca, iberis, poppy, matthiola, mignonette, scabiosa, phlox, calendula, gypsophila, levkoy, sunflower, statice, clarkia, lavatera, eschscholzia, foxglove, purslane). If the soil was not fertilized in the fall, then add superphosphate (50 g/m2) and potassium sulfate (25 g/m2) and dig it to a depth of 18 cm.
— In the second ten days of the month, you can sow perennials in the greenhouse (aquilegia, gaillardia, pinnate carnation, delphinium, bells, cornflower and pyrethrum). The air temperature for seed germination is +15-22 degrees.
— At the beginning of April, begonia tubers are removed from the basement, cleaned of dried roots and soil residues and placed for 30 minutes in a 0.05% solution of potassium permanganate. Large tubers with buds are cut into several parts with a sharp knife, so that each part has 1 bud. The cutting areas are treated with charcoal, after which the plants are planted in an earthen mixture and put out for growing. Begonias grow well at temperatures not lower than +18 °C. Begonias should not be allowed to dry out.
Calendar of work in the garden and vegetable garden in April.
Work at the dacha in April. What needs to be done in the garden in April. Everything you need to do at the dacha in April.
List of works in the garden and vegetable garden for April
1. April is a responsible month. First of all, you need to drain excess water from the area. To do this, dig ditches along the slope of the site so that the water flows into the ditch. If there is no slope on the site, then simply dig a shallow ditch, gradually deepening it so that the water flows in the direction you need. Stagnation of water is especially dangerous on raspberries, strawberries and clematis.
2. At the beginning of the month, it is necessary to remove spruce branches from young plantings of strawberries, roses, irises, clematis, lilies, especially from oriental hybrids, since under a warm shelter they will quickly grow and their flower may freeze during return frosts. However, do not rush to remove the boxes from roses and clematis.
3. Feed lovage, rhubarb, sorrel, and raspberries with nitrogen fertilizer (3 tablespoons of urea per 10 liters of water). Instead of urea, you can use an infusion of manure or bird droppings diluted with water 1:10 or 1:20, respectively. If you cover these plantings with lutrasil or place arcs over them and stretch the film, then by May 1 you will already have greenery.
4. If compost heap If it is located in the sun, you can sow early greens (chervil, watercress, cilantro, parsley, lettuce, spinach, dill) and early carrots, as well as radishes. To do this, spill last year's compost pile. hot water, pour a layer of soil about 7-8 cm high on top of the compost and sow the seeds. I usually do it this way: I mix 1 teaspoon of seeds with half a glass of sand and sow it into the furrows just like salting food.
You can use special seeders in which the hole is adjusted according to the size of the seeds. In this case, the seedlings will not be thickened.
The top of the crops can be covered with film until shoots emerge. Warmth and moisture are retained under the film, and crops appear faster. After the shoots appear, the film must be removed, otherwise the seedlings may burn under the film. If you cover the crops with lutrasil or spunbond, then the covering material can not be removed until the plants grow, but before the shoots emerge, the crops should be watered directly over the material if the weather is dry or windy, so that the hatched seeds do not dry out in the upper drying layer of soil.
5. At the beginning of the month, pre-grow vegetable beds weeds covering the beds old film and securing it so that the wind does not blow it away. Weeds will quickly emerge under the film, so as soon as they appear, remove the film and loosen the beds, leaving them open for a day. Then cover again with film and repeat the operation. Now in top layer There are no weeds in the garden bed. It is important not to dig up the soil, but only before sowing, loosen it with a Fokin flat cutter, then use the sharp end of the flat cutter to make furrows for sowing. All of the above crops can be sown in open ground at the time of coltsfoot flowering, that is, at the end of April–beginning of May.
6. Leaf parsley for greens and bush dill can be sown in early April. In mid-April, you can sow marigolds, marigolds, and zinnias for seedlings.
7. At home, water tomato and pepper seedlings moderately so as not to over-moisten the soil. Don't forget that seedlings need good lighting. As a top dressing, I use a weak Uniflora-Rost solution (1 teaspoon per 5 liters of water), which I water the seedlings with instead of water. Do not forget to spray the leaves of tomatoes and eggplants with a very weak solution of a copper preparation (the easiest way is to use chlorine copper oxide - HOM, dissolving one fifth of a teaspoon of powder in 5 liters of water). The solution can stand, you will use it two more times approximately every two weeks. This is good preventative measure against late blight. But the often recommended spraying with a manganese solution can not be done, since it does not protect against late blight, and other diseases rarely appear on tomato seedlings. You can spray peppers with a solution of potassium permanganate, especially if they are bothered by aphids.
It is difficult to protect pepper from aphid attacks if there are also houseplants. Spraying any plants and at any time with a solution of the “Healthy Garden” preparation (4-5 grains per 1 liter of water) helps very well against aphids.
8. It’s time to take the potatoes out of storage and put them in hot (45 degrees) water.
When the water has cooled, add potassium permanganate until it turns bright pink and keep the tubers in the solution for 15-20 minutes. Then rinse the tubers, dry them and place them for vernalization in a bright and cool place.
At the end of April, harvest the potatoes carton boxes, sandwiching each layer with newspapers, place the boxes in a warm place so that the potatoes produce good, strong sprouts. You will plant the grown tubers, thereby speeding up the ripening of the crop by two weeks.
9. If you haven’t done the pruning, you can still do it at the very beginning of the month. Start with blackcurrant, gooseberry and honeysuckle bushes.
Trim off the black ends of branches and rejuvenate bushes by cutting out old branches. In gooseberries, you need to cut out all the young shoots growing in the middle of the bush; you should leave only those that grow along the edges of the bush.
The tops of the branches of red and white currants are not cut off, but only old branches and those branches that branch into the crown are removed. In honeysuckle, pruning of branches that thicken the crown or broken branches is done.
10. Do not rush to prune cherries and plums, wait until freezing after wintering becomes clearly visible, or better yet, leave their pruning for the fall. The same applies to apple trees. After a harsh winter, the ends of the branches may have frozen, but some of the branches will be able to recover from buds on the bark, so do not rush to prune the branches, leave the pruning until the end of summer. Frozen wood has a light brown color when cut. Start pruning from the end of the branch and, gradually moving from the end to the skeletal branches, you will get to the place where the cut is light - from this place the tree tissue is alive and there is no need to cut further.
11. To get early strawberries, cover at least one bed with film on arches or double thin lutrasil directly on the bushes.
12. Towards the end of the month, you should spray those plants in which the bud scales have moved apart and a green cone of leaves has appeared, since the first pests lay an egg at this very moment in the green cone of the leaf. It is better to use an infusion or decoction of herbs with a strong odor (for example, tansy, garlic or citrus peels) to disorient the pests.
13. April is a good time for vaccinations. At the beginning of April, you can cut cuttings for grafting, wrap them in newspaper, fold them in plastic bag and bury them in the snow on the north side of the house, but so that they are not flooded with melt water. At the end of the month, you can use these cuttings for grafting.
14. At the end of the month, sow directly into the ground the seeds of annuals and perennials that are not afraid of frost (poppy, eschscholzia, cosmos, cornflowers, iberis, columbine, forget-me-nots, marigolds). Other flowers can also be sown directly into the ground, even such as tobacco or petunia, but their crops should be covered with a film stretched over small arcs. Arcs are easy to make yourself from willow twigs, from which the bark should be removed immediately. Willow grows along ditches.
15. At the end of the month, you can remove the cover from all ornamental plants, except clematis. It is better to cover their growing shoots with at least lutrasil.
IN April 2019 The sowing and planting season continues in the garden. In order to correctly navigate planting dates and the most favorable days for gardening, gardeners often rely on the phases of the moon. Optimal results and good harvests obtained if you use the advice agrotechnical calendar seasonal work and recommendations Lunar calendar.
Gardener's lunar calendar for April 2019
The days of the waxing Moon are traditionally considered the most favorable for sowing, planting and other agricultural work in the garden. But at the same time, you always need to take into account the influence of other factors - first of all, the zodiac sign, then the lunar day, day of the week and the phase of the moon (waxing or waning). On the New Moon, it is better to postpone all work on planting, replanting, picking and transplanting plants.
| 1, Mon | 26 l.d. Waning Moon in Aquarius | It is not recommended to sow or replant anything or water the plants. Spray against pests and diseases of seedlings, shrubs and trees in the garden. Pinch and pinion plants, shape trees and shrubs. Effective weeding and weed control | |
| 2, Tue | 27 l.d. Waning Moon in Pisces | Favorable day for planting and sowing vegetable crops | In the south, a good day for planting root crops and potatoes. Sow nigella, lettuce, parsley, dill, and peas. In the middle zone, sow seedlings of zucchini, cucumbers, squash, pumpkins, melons and watermelons. In the North, sow late varieties of tomatoes and white cabbage for seedlings. |
| 3, Wed | 28 l.d. Waning Moon in Pisces | A favorable day for sowing vegetables for seedlings, in a greenhouse and in open ground. The landing will be successful. replanting indoor flowers. Water and feed with organic fertilizers: seedlings, plantings, berries and ornamental shrubs. You can sow biennial flowers for seedlings and in open ground. | |
| 4, Thu | 29 l.d. Waning Moon in Aries | Postpone planting vegetables and seedlings. You can weed, dig the ground, prepare beds, remove garbage. You can sow green manure in open ground or a greenhouse | In the south, collect medicinal herbs In the central region, trim shrubs and graft trees |
| 5, Fri | 30-1 l.d. New Moon in Aries | Unfavorable day for sowing, planting, transplanting. Effective weeding, soil cultivation in boxes, greenhouses, and open ground. | In the south, prune old and dry branches. In the north, plan your plantings, buy additional seeds, garden tools and covering materials. Take out the potatoes for sprouting. |
| 6, Sat | 2 l.d. Waxing Moon in Aries | Unfavorable day for planting and sowing. You can sow green manure and lettuce on greens. | In the southern regions, sanitary and formative pruning of trees and shrubs continues. Cover the cuts with garden varnish, whiten the trunks, and treat them against diseases and pests. |
| 7, Sun | 3 l.d. Waxing Moon in Taurus | A good day for picking seedlings. Soak seeds, fertilize plantings and indoor flowers with mineral fertilizers | In the south, sow greens, green manure, and grains in open ground. In the middle zone, graft and prune fruit and berry trees and shrubs. Don't forget to use garden varnish or paint. |
| 8, Mon | 4 l.d. Waxing Moon in Taurus | A favorable day for sowing parsley, lettuce, dill, spinach, and sorrel. Pest and disease control and mineral fertilizing will be successful. | In the central region, plant fruit and berry and ornamental seedlings. In the north, pick up vegetable seedlings. |
| 9, Tue | 5 l.d. Waxing Moon in Gemini | A favorable day for planting parsley, dill, and fennel. | IN southern regions plant peas and climbing flowers, take care of garden strawberries. IN middle lane remove cover from roses and perennials. |
| 10, Wed | 6 l.d. Waxing Moon in Gemini | Unfavorable day for landing herbaceous plants. You can sow climbing flowers and vines | In the south, sow peas, fennel and dill. Mow the lawn. Get things in order in the central region climbing vines and perennials In the north, sow seedlings of climbing flowers |
| 11 th | 7 l.d. Waxing Moon in Cancer | A favorable day for planting vegetables and transplanting seedlings. Water plantings, indoor flowers, fertilize. | In the south, sow cucumbers, zucchini, squash, pumpkin, herbs and spices. Plant cabbage seedlings. In the middle zone, sow late cabbage for seedlings In the north, sow cucumbers, zucchini, pumpkin, melons, and watermelons for seedlings. |
| 12, Fri | 8 l.d. Waxing Moon in Cancer | A favorable day for planting vegetables, transplanting seedlings and indoor flowers. Sowing and transplanting any flower crops. | In the south, melons are planted in open ground (except for watermelons and melons). Plant seedlings of cabbage, green crops, and herbs. In the central region, graft and cut fruit trees and bushes |
| 13, Sat | 9 l.d. Waxing Moon in Leo | An unfavorable day for planting vegetables, except basil and sunflowers. Do not shoot or pick seedlings. Don't water the plants. | Sow in the south lawn grass. Replant dahlias and peonies. Feed perennial flowers with mineral fertilizers |
| 14, Sun | 10 l.d. Waxing Moon in Leo | Unfavorable day for planting vegetables | In the south, get your lawn in order: remove dry grass, aerate, sow and water In the north, prune honeysuckle before the buds swell. Water the berries with hot water to prevent diseases and pests. |
| 15, Mon | 11 l.d. Waxing Moon in Leo | Engage in soil work, weeding and hilling. Put your perennials in order: remove and tear off dry and diseased leaves, loosen them, apply mineral fertilizers. You can plant perennials. | IN northern regions prepare greenhouses for the season, remove garbage, prepare beds for planting. For early harvest After warming up the beds, cover them with covering material. |
| 16, Tue | 12 l.d. Waxing Moon in Virgo | A favorable day for sowing and replanting any flowers. You can shape the crown of trees, pinching and trimming plants | In the south, sow and water the lawn In the central region, plant and replant grapes. |
| 17, Wed | 13 l.d. Waxing Moon in Virgo | Continue to sow and replant flowers in pots and open ground. Picking seedlings, dividing perennials, cuttings of indoor plants will be successful | In the middle zone, where the snow has melted and the earth has warmed up, plant seedlings of berry and ornamental shrubs In the north, whitewash the trunks of fruit trees and large branches of bushes |
| 18 th | 14 l.d. Waxing Moon in Libra | Favorable day for planting medicinal herbs. You should not pluck seedlings. | In the south, plant cabbage seedlings in open ground In central Russia, plant peas in open ground, seedlings of stone fruit trees, seed plants |
| 19, Fri | 15 l.d. Full Moon in Libra | Unfavorable day for sowing and transplanting. Do weeding and weed control | In the south, start mowing and leveling the lawn In the middle zone, dig the soil in the trunk circles of trees and shrubs In the north, remove all winter coverings, untie raspberries, tidy up perennial flowers |
| 20, Sat | 16 l.d. Waning Moon in Scorpio | Favorable day for planting vegetables, mainly root crops | In the south, sow melons and watermelons, carrots, beets, radishes, turnips, rutabaga In the central region, sow green crops, onions, garlic, radishes In the north, plant seedlings of watermelons, melons, zucchini, cucumbers |
| 21, Sun | 17 l.d. Waning Moon in Scorpio | Do not plant trees or shrubs. Set aside pruning. water all the seedlings | In the south, loosen the soil in the beds, remove weeds In the middle zone, plant cucumbers, pumpkins, and squash in a greenhouse In the north, the plot is being cleared, greenhouses are being prepared, and green manure is being sown in the greenhouse |
| 22, Mon | 18 l.d. Waning Moon in Sagittarius | Unfavorable day for planting and replanting vegetables. Sow flowers. | In the south, sow beans, medicinal and spicy herbs In the central region, replant and divide perennials. bring in organic fertilizers. You can plant grapes ornamental plants with a long, curly stem |
| 23, Tue | 18 l.d. Waning Moon in Sagittarius | Unfavorable day for planting vegetables. We continue to sow medicinal and spicy herbs and flowers. Postpone treatment against diseases and pests, weeding | Medicinal herbs are collected in the south |
| 24, Wed | 19 l.d. Waning Moon in Capricorn | Favorable day for planting vegetables, transplanting and planting seedlings, fertilizing with organic fertilizers | In the south, sow melons and watermelons, plant tomato seedlings in open ground In the middle zone, sow radishes, lettuce, dill, parsley in open ground, plant carrots and daikon In the northern regions, sow cucumbers, squash, pumpkin, melons and watermelons for seedlings |
| 25 th | 20 l.d. Waning Moon in Capricorn | A favorable day for sowing vegetables and transplanting seedlings. water and fertilize plantings and indoor flowers | In the south, plant cucumbers, melons, watermelons, zucchini, pumpkins, and squash in open ground In the central region, plant onions, nigella, garlic, sow carrots and radishes In the north, sow cabbage and melons for seedlings |
| 26, Fri | 21 l.d. Waning Moon in Capricorn | A favorable day for planting vegetables, especially root crops. Pest and weed control will be effective | In the south, plant tomato seedlings, peppers and eggplants in open ground under a film In the middle zone, plant green crops, radishes, peas In the north, sow radishes and greens in greenhouses |
| 27, Sat | 22 l.d. Waning Moon in Aquarius | Unfavorable day for sowing seeds, planting seedlings, planting seedlings. Spray seedlings and plantings against diseases and pests. | Trees and shrubs are pruned in central Russia In the north, pests are removed from trees, treated with drugs, and honeysuckle is formed |
| 28, Sun | 23 l.d. Waning Moon in Aquarius | Unfavorable day for planting and watering | In the south, create compost; you can thin out carrots and beets In the middle lane form hedge and the crown of trees and shrubs In the north, clean up the area, whiten the trunks |
| 29, Mon | 24 l.d. Waning Moon in Pisces | A favorable day for sowing vegetables and picking seedlings. Do not plant fruit trees and shrubs. Do not dig up or divide perennials. | In the south, sow zucchini, squash, cucumbers, melons, and watermelons in open ground In the central zone there are green and spicy crops, radishes and peas In the north, plant green crops, radishes, onions, garlic |
| 30, Tue | 25 l.d. Waning Moon in Pisces | Favorable day for sowing vegetables | In the south, sow corn, beans, beans, and melons. Plant seedlings of tomatoes and cabbage. Reseed root crops In the middle zone, plant root crops, potatoes, annual flowers In the north, plant garlic, onions, cold-resistant green crops |
Favorable days in April 2019
Full moon falls on April 19th. The days preceding are considered favorable for sowing and planting. Full moon- April 16-18.
April starts with waning moon When it is customary to plant root crops, the underground part of the plants actively grows during this period.
April 5th falls New moon- one of the most unfavorable days in a month. On this day it is better not to touch plants at all; sowing and planting is strictly prohibited.
Unfavorable days according to the lunar calendar in April 2018
Remember that the Lunar sowing calendar for gardeners and gardeners is advisory in nature. It is best if you combine the advice of the Lunar calendar with own experience and a calendar of seasonal agricultural work. In addition, you should always rely on the timing of sowing and planting seedlings and open ground accepted in your climatic region.
Gardener's calendar for April
Already in all regions, gardeners can go to the site and start preparing the garden for the season. The most important thing during this period is to help the garden wake up from a long winter sleep and fully prepare to meet the new summer season. At the dachas, they remove garbage and plant debris and check shelters. The snow, which has been actively retained on the site all winter, must be saved in the form of melt water. It is most useful for spring nutrition and soil moisture.
- So, apple tree cuttings, cut in the fall, are taken out of storage at the end of April, the cuts are renewed, and placed in water for 2 days.
- After which you can begin spring grafting.
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- If you plan to plant cucumbers in a greenhouse, start growing seedlings early, in the beginning of April.
- If you plan to plant plants in open ground, they are sown for seedlings only from mid-April.
When calculating the timing of sowing, be guided by the expected time of planting and the age of the seedlings. Cucumbers are planted in a permanent place at the age of 30-35 days.
Tomatoes
In Siberia, in the first ten days of April, you can sow tomatoes as seedlings if you plan to plant them in open ground. Also, when sowing in late April, it is better to grow seedlings. Plants will grow strong and resilient to adverse conditions.
On Far East in the first ten days of April (before the 10th day) mid-season and late varieties are sown.
Cabbage
In early April, seeds are sown for seedlings. In Siberia, you can start growing cabbage seedlings only from the third decade of April.
In the first ten days of April, you need to have time to finish sowing seedlings, as well as seedlings in the greenhouse. The regime for growing leek seedlings is the same as for white cabbage.
Peanut
At the end of April, try sowing exotic seedlings. Seedlings are planted in indoor soil at the age of 14 days. When planting peanuts in open ground, sow the seedlings 2-3 weeks later.
Melons
Sweet melons are sown for seedlings in April. Upon landing favorable time- from April 20, and if , it’s better to wait until May.
Fennel
Those who want to grow heads of cabbage sow it for seedlings in April. Calculate the time of sowing seeds so as to plant seedlings at 45-60 days of age. Well, to get fresh, aromatic herbs, you can sow fennel seeds directly into the ground. This can be done from the end of April and sowed every 2 weeks.
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From April 10, you can start preparing the beds in the garden. For example, to dig up the soil with a shovel full, add humus and complex mineral fertilizer. Loosen, level and cover with film to warm the soil.
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Sowing and planting flowers in April
Marigold
do not need to be sown for seedlings. However, it can be grown through seedlings, including in Primorye. They are sown in early April. They dive in the phase of the 2nd true leaf. Planted in the ground after return frosts.
Petunia
In the middle of April - favorable days for repeated sowings - small-flowered ampelous varieties.
- Thanks to repeated sowings, flowering petunia will decorate the garden all season long.
- Petunias sown in April do not dive, but are immediately planted in flowerpots around the end of June.
Roses
In early spring The attention of many gardeners will be occupied by the queen of the garden.
- In April they begin, the soil warms up to positive temperatures.
- Planting holes for roses are prepared 40x40 and 50 cm deep.
- The distance between bushes should be at least half a meter.
- Roses that were covered for the winter begin to open slightly and get used to the fresh air.
Bulbous
Before planting in the ground, bulbs must be removed from storage in April, cleaned and treated with insecticides against pests. So they will lie for another month waiting for landing. At the end of April you can already plant the bulbs late varieties gladioli.
It is also better to plant it in the ground early.
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Flower propagation in April
In April you can start. Tubers are divided for pre-germination in the beginning of April. If you plan to plant directly in the ground, begin dividing the root tubers at the end of April: soak, place in the refrigerator until the end of April.
- The end of April begins a favorable period for spring breeding in spring, shoots no more than 15-20 cm high can be divided into a larger amount of planting material.
- In the first half, engage in propagation by dividing the bush.
- At the end of April you can take seedlings sown in February. Cuttings are combined with pinching elongated shoots.
- A favorable period for cuttings begins in April. Annual shoots are cut and placed for rooting in a specially prepared moistened substrate. The temperature for germination of cuttings is maintained at 18–25°C.
Hydrangea formation
In April, you can carry out formative pruning. It will be necessary to remove small branches and those growing inside the bush. Make sure that after pruning the bush retains its rounded shape.
Collection medicinal plants in April
April is a favorable time for. Useful properties swollen buds of birch, pine, apple, hawthorn, and willow. Decoctions and infusions of spring buds help with pain, cough, cardiovascular and gastrointestinal diseases.
April is also suitable for collecting oak, white willow, and viburnum bark. In April they stock up on the roots of marshmallow, aralia, belladonna, elecampane, ginseng, cinquefoil and other plants. Leaves can be picked from belladonna, lingonberry, oleander and bearberry.
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