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Gardening Hints and Tips April 2023

  • Protect young plants from slugs and snails

  • Deadhead daffodils

  • Prune early flowering shrubs like forsythia

  • Clean out ponds

  • Sow leeks, fennel, sweetcorn, tomatoes, courgettes, main crop potatoes.

  • Feed berries and currants with high nitrogen feed

  • Divide perennials

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