UC Master Gardener Program of Yolo County

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April in the Garden

 

Checklist

• Raise mowing height of lawnmower.
• Monitor spring rains and irrigate as needed.
• Paint trunks of young trees with white latex paint to prevent sunburn, borers.
• Fertilize water plants.
• Use fertilizers and pesticides only as needed and according to label directions.
• Cover squash with row cover until flowering to prevent diseases spread by aphids, white-flies.
• Use wet rolled up newspapers as traps for snails and earwigs, or pick them by hand.
• Continue weeding.
• Thin fruit crops as necessary.
• Remove spent blooms from bulbs; leave green leaves to build nutrients for next year.
• Sod, seed or over-seed lawn.
• Plant tomatoes and peppers only when night time temperatures reach 50°.

Planting Guide

 

Vegetables & Herbs

• Start seeds in green house or cold frame for carrots, cucumber, corn, melons, squash, green beans, lettuce, spinach, celery, tomatoes, eggplant, and peppers.
• Directly seed carrots, cucumber, corn, green beans, melons and squash.
• Trans plant seedlings or purchased plants of lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and cucumber.
• Harvest spinach, peas, cauliflower, broccoli, first onions, and cabbage.
• Again, refer to planting guide for best timing of spring vegetable seeds and transplants.

Bulbs and Flowers

• Plant warm season annuals such as ageratum, impatiens, lobelia, marigold, petunia, and sunflower.
• Plant perennials such as catmint, salvia, scabiosa, verbena, and yarrow.
• Plant perennial ground covers such as snow-in-summer or dwarf plumbago.
• Plant whatever catches your eye!

 

 

 

 

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Program Coordinator, UC Master Gardeners of Yolo 

UC Cooperative Extension office-Yolo

2780 E. Gibson Road Woodland, CA 95695

work/cell: 707-389-0645-texts ok, fax:530-666-8736, jmbaumbach@ucanr.edu