Getting Involved, Easter in your Garden
Posted by Grow - on March 22 2010 @ 19:39
Easter, the perfect time to start your gardening year.
With a bit of luck the weather will allow us to spend some time in the fresh air and maybe even organise an easter egg hunt!
All your spring bulbs will just be popping up now,daffodils are in full bloom and the others will soon show their true colours.
Kids love picking flowers, and of course if you have a big patch of flowering daffodils you can let them pick big overflowing bunches.
It is important however, that bulbs flower and then are let to die back naturally, otherwise they lose strength for next years flowering.
Pests in the garden!
Once the cold weather is gone the kids won't be the only who re-discover the garden!
In the warm wet month of April slugs will multiply by the millions! Keeping on top of them now will pay off through the year. The safest way to remove them, in an environmental way is to build beer traps. Simply sink old jam jars into the soil in your beds, fill with a little beer, a cm should do! The slugs are attracted to this and will fall in. Change these every few days, especially in the rainy weather!
The other pest which will now start to become a large problem is the rabbit. As young shoots emerge they may quickly be nibbled off by young rabbits. The quickest way of controlling them is to let the dog chase them away! If you don't have one, simply plant rabbit resistant plants, such as Berberis.
Happy Gardening!