Chris Day and Peter Brown discuss some things to do in your Garden in April.

Tree, Shrub and Tree Planting Compost

Roses

Rose feeds - Top Rose

Vitax Q4

Cosmos Sonata

Antirrhinum (Snapdragons)

Sunflowers

Camellias, Pieris, Rhododendrons Ericaceous Feed

Sequestrene Tonic

Plant stakes - Poppy Forge

Garden Canes

Willow / Hazel sticks can be grown from bare-root plants established from November-March

Bird Feeders / Bird food

Sowing Cucumbers, Marrow, Tomatoes, Lettuce, Spring Onions and Radish

Runner Bean 'Enorma'

Multi-cell Modular Trays / Propagation trays

Soil thermometer (in store only)

Greenhouse cleaning - Citrox Greenhouse Cleaner and Jeyes Fluid (in store only)

Feeding spring bulbs with Sulphate of Potash

Organic Lawn Feed - RHS Mo Bacter (in store only)

Moss Control products (In store only)

Lawn Seed for new lawns and overseeding

Houseplant repotting: Houseplant Compost or a Peat Free Compost. Perlite. Ericaceous compost for Gardenia, Stephanotis and indoor Azaleas. Use specialist composts for Citrus, African Violets and Cacti. Houseplant feeds including Baby Bio and specialists

Useful Links

Chiltern Music Therapy

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An interview with John Marshal, expert in growing potatoes and Chelsea Flower Show Gold Medal winner.

Potato varieties mentioned: 'Apache', 'Arran Pilot', 'Charlotte', 'Duke of York', 'Highland Burgundy Red', 'Maris Peer', 'Rocket', 'Salad Blue' and 'Swift'.

John's Desert Island Potatoes: Early variety 'Duke of York'; Second Early 'Pink Fir Apple' Main crop 'Maris Piper'.

Other plants mentioned: Scented Tobacco Plant - Nicotiana. Sweet Potatoes. Yacon.

Blight resistant varieties: Look out for the Hungarian bred Sarpo varieties including 'Sarpo Mira (main crop).

Christmas Potatoes - available from early July.

Products mentioned:

Vitax Potato Fertiliser

Potato Growing bags

Sulphate of Potash (High potash feed)

Tomorite Tomato Food

Our guest was potato expert and speaker John Marshall. You can request details of John's Tattie Talks tailored for gardening groups. John can be contacted by e-mail [email protected]

Love potatoes website

Chiltern Music Therapy

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Chris and Peter's first show, giving you a bit of background on who we are, our horticultural background and what to look forward to in our upcoming shows.

Eleagnus ebbingei

Antirrhinums

Pinks and Carnations (in store only)

Houseplants and Accessories

Orchid Products

Useful Links

Amateur Gardening magazine

Buckingham Nurseries

Chiltern Music Therapy

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