Warmer weather, spring sunshine and gentle rain means it’s time to plant your seeds
It’s April, the time of showers and warmth, so it’s likely safe to say it’s the month to unleash your soil. Uncover cloches if you sowed hardy vegetables in March, and lift them from any over-wintered chards and kales.
Plant any potatoes you haven’t yet got in the ground and earth up any earlies already in. Go back over seed beds. We don’t divide our plot into beds except by sowing different rows in different directions: a combination of leaves, say, running one way, beets another, herbs perhaps scattered through, calendula, too, for colour and companion planting. There is no right or wrong, though best not to sow the same seed in the same place every year if you have enough space avoid it.
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