The gardening work in the first spring


The forsythia blooms. Their bright yellow invites you to bring the garden into shape. But what can be sown and planted now? And what should be fertilized or cut? As inspiration, we have compiled all of the upcoming gardening work.

In the kitchen garden

Sow

In the bed:

  • Broad beans, peas, carrots, parsnips, radishes, salsify, spinach, hedge onions, savoy cabbage
  • Insensitive aromatic herbs such as savory, chervil, caraway, parsley, chives

In the greenhouse

  • Leaf and stem chard, spinach amaranth

On the windowsill:

  • Eggplants, pumpkins, melons, peppers, peppers, cucumbers, runner beans, tomatoes, zucchini
  • basil

plants

  • Apricot, peach, grapevine
  • Potatoes, lettuce, pointed cabbage, onions, Jerusalem artichoke
  • Herbs like sorrel, chives, lemon balm

Fruit trees and shrubs in a container

In the cold frame:

  • Kohlrabi and lettuce

To cut

  • Cut off spring branches from medium to strong growing raspberries

Protect

  • Spread the net against vegetable flies
  • Tansy tea spray against mites on blackberries, strawberries and currants
  • Rake beds to ward off snails and collect the first snails and take them away

What else to do

When the currant blooms:

  • Build a nesting place for bumblebees so that the earth can warm up

In the flower garden

Sow

Summer flowers

  • In the bed: gold poppies, maiden in the green, marigold
  • In the cold frame / greenhouse: nasturtiums, lobelia, snapdragons, summer aster, ornamental tobacco, zinnia
  • On the windowsill: morning glory, decorative basket, scabiosis, straw flower, trumpet tongue

plants

  • Perennials (especially autumn flowering plants), grasses and woody plants

As soon as the sour cherry blossoms:

  • spring onions such as dahlia, gladiolus, lily and montbretia; Drive the tuberous begonia and flower tube into pots under glass

Fertilize

  • Race
  • Basic fertilization of perennials and shrubs
  • Summer bulb flowers with a good appetite such as lily and ornamental onion

On the balcony and terrace:

To cut

  • Ball and panicle hydrangea, heather, rose and Mediterranean herbs

As soon as the sour cherry blossoms:

  • Farm hydrangeas
  • Shorten faded branches (from early summer) of woody plants: beard flower, finger shrub, cushion spear, sacrum and buddleia
  • Cut ornamental grasses such as Chinese reeds and pennon cleaner grass above the ground
  • Blue pillows after flowering

Protect

What else to do

When the currant blooms:

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