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What Vegetables are Good to Plant in April?

Aprilis, aperire! 🌻 April brings out the butterflies and flowers. Expect a great time for a vegetable garden? April opens the door on planting tubers and seedlings to hoe in the ground!

Best April vegetable garden

Potatoes

Beets

Summer cabbage

Large and small onions

How to plant potatoes?

Step 1 - Crumble the soil finely and level it with a rake.

Step 2 - Rake the soil and remove large rocks and clumps from the entire surface.

Step 3 - Create a straight furrow with a cordon.

Step 4 - Make a V-shaped gully 4 inches deep.

Step 5 - Repeat step 3 and 4 at 20 inch intervals, each time.

Step 6 - Place your potatoes at 15 inch intervals in the furrows and then cover them.

NB- For best results, sprout the potatoes before planting.

How do you sprout potatoes?

As the cook knows, her potatoes are always placed in a frost-free cargo box and to sprout they need light. When they will start to sprout you see them as shown in the picture below.sprout-potatoes.jpg

How to sow vegetables?

Step 1 - Crumble the soil finely and level it with a rake.

Step 2 - Rake it and remove large rocks and clumps from the entire surface.

Step 3 - Create a straight 2 to 3 inch narrow furrow with a cordon.

Step 4 - Repeat step 3 over the entire area.

Step 5 - Flood the furrows in dry weather.

Step 6 - Sow evenly along the string and backfill the furrow with soil using your feet.

My little tip for you! Before you plant:

Beets

Cabbage

Onions

Peas

Spinach

Carrots

Don’t forget to garden with the lunar calendar!💪

· Updated on: October 30, 2021

Written by Gilbert Olivier

Gilbert Olivier at EitherDIY

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