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
Table of Contents
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
- 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:
- Long-term fertilizer for Mediterranean potted plants
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
- Fish off thread algae in the pond
- Control pests on boxwood such as beech aphids and boxwood fleas
What else to do
When the currant blooms:
- move compost
- Bring potted plants such as oleander and African lily outdoors
