With cooler nights and shorter days here in Perth, April is a fantastic time to plant vegetables, herbs and flowers in your garden. Here’s a list of jobs you should aim to complete in your garden this month:
Vegetables that are ideal to plant this month include leeks, onions, spinach, spring onions, lettuce, cabbage, broccoli and shallots.
With the cooler nights and milder sun during the day, you can most likely get away with reducing the amount of time you are watering your gardens and lawn.
Add some colour to your garden by planting snapdragons, pansies, sweet peas and violas.
April is also a great time to plant native trees such as banksia, wattle and bottlebrush.
With winter approaching, now is a great time to plant parsley which you can use throughout winter in hearty casseroles and soups.
If you have lavender or rosemary in your garden, now is the time to prune them back.
With leaves falling from trees, make sure to rake up and remove them regularly so that your lawn does not die.
If your lillypilly has lumps on its leaves, prune the affected areas, fertilise the tree and water well.
If you have roses, don’t prune them yet – leave this until winter.
Spring bulbs can start going in now, ready for a colourful bloom in spring.
