Will it? Won't it? As March draws to a close, spring is teasing us, but Dan and Julia see signs of spring everywhere they look. In episode 2, the Two Good Gardeners get animated about April, celebrating foraged food in the form of wild garlic, sharing the joy of daffodils and warning against planting delicate plants outside too soon. Dan offers advice on growing dahlias from seed, cuttings and tubers, and Julia shares a thrifty Easter project involving egg boxes.

Additional resources:

• Dan's guide to growing dahlias
• Dan's advice on hardening off seedlings and plants
• Dan's April garden guide
• More about wild garlic
• More about daffodils

Dan & Julia's jobs for the next fortnight:

1. Start to feed citrus with summer feed
2. Mow lawns. (start with the blades set high).
3. Sow hardy annuals outside...
4. Plant out potatoes: earlies in the first half and main crop at the end of April.
5. Sow squashes, courgettes, and pumpkins under cover this month and protect them from mice.
6. Stay on top of weeds.
7. Sow parsnips direct into the ground.
8. Hand-pollinate peach and apricot blossoms using a paintbrush.
9. Plant out leeks.
10. Pot up dahlia tubers and take cuttings when shoots reach 5-7cm long.

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Welcome to Two Good Gardeners, sponsored by Alitex, home of the modern Victorian greenhouse. In our first episode, we ask the question 'to chit or not to chit', share thrifty tricks with toilet roll tubes, explain how to help your garden survive the mad March snow and offer tips for staying on top of your garden over the next fortnight.

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• For more on how to chit potatoes, you'll find Dan and Julia's combined wisdom crystalised right here.
• If you're interested in using seaweed as a garden fertiliser and soil conditioner, there is more information on Dan's blog, The Frustrated Gardener.
• For help with snow damage, and how to revive ailing plants, there's help at hand here.
• You can find out all about Julia on her website: https://www.parkers-patch.com/
• To buy rubber seed trays and explore Dan's range of handpicked garden tools, accessories and gifts, visit https://www.dancoopergarden.com/

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