Last updated on December 2nd, 2011
Although we have called this blog A Garden in the House, I’m afraid that we must, from time to time, venture outdoors…to the garden behind the house. 
My rose garden, June ’08
My rose garden, June ’08Let’s start a communal list of gardening jobs that we hope to accomplish in April. The keyword is hope. I’ll start the list, and let you add to it in the comments section.
Here we go:
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Prune and fertilize roses
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Clip and fertilize boxwood hedge
- (Ditto the yew hedge)
- Remove the invasive, perennial blue salvia that I (regretfully) planted in one of the rose beds
- Give dug-up, perennial blue salvia to some unsuspecting friend
- Clean fountains and install pumps
- Plant peas, spinach and lettuce in the vegetable garden
- Turn the compost pile
- Buy “Red Wiggler” worms to begin a kitchen-counter composting system
- Transplant lilac “suckers” into a new, circular lilac garden
What are the gardening tasks that you hope to accomplish in April? Are you starting a new vegetable plot or a perennial border? I’d love to hear about it.
willswift says
Cleaning up the debri from December’s ice storms
draymond says
I’m with willswift on the debris cleanup. I also want to redo my front yard landscaping so some of the old shrubs need to come out.