Sowing & Growing
Sow Asparagus crowns, Broccoli, Carrots, Chard, Cauliflower, Cabbage, & Peas. As the temperatures start to rise transplant any vegetable seedlings that you have started in March. Sow onions and shallots by mid-April. Plant Second early and Main crop potatoes. Tomatoes & Cucumbers can be planted on into bigger pots or directly into the soil in the greenhouse. Plant herbs seeds for your Kitchen garden, we have a great selection of herb plants available to plant now for cooking purposes until your seeds are ready to be harvested.
Start your borders of Summer Colour by sowing Dahlia tuber and lilies directly into the soil. For splashes of colour in pots or containers add in Begonia tubers for which will continue to flower throughout the summer. Alternatively choose from our selection of Taylor’s container bulb collections.
Pot on and feed any houseplant that has out grown its container.
Lawns
After a long winter of mixed weather your lawn will benefit from a little TLC; start mowing your lawn regularly, raise the blades of your lawnmower to the highest level for the first cut, gradually reducing them over the growing season.
For a great finish trim lawn edges with a long handled Wilkinson sword border Shears.
For any patches on the lawn use Gro Sure’s 5 Day Lawn Repair Seed.
Lawns will also benefit from a feed at this time of year, apply Mo bacter an organic lawn food that releases nutrients over a 12 week period, it kills moss without turning it black. So there is no need to scarify the lawn.
Maintenance
Regularly feed & water your greenhouse vegetables & bedding plants. Spray troublesome roses for black spot. Spray Apples & Pears for scab. Keep weeds under control in the vegetable garden & flowers beds. Protect vulnerable bedding plants from frosts. Water newly planted bedding that you have started.
See you soon!
Claire Hayes, ManagerPowerscourt Garden Pavilion
Start your borders of Summer Colour by sowing Dahlia tuber and lilies directly into the soil. For splashes of colour in pots or containers add in Begonia tubers for which will continue to flower throughout the summer. Alternatively choose from our selection of Taylor’s container bulb collections.
Pot on and feed any houseplant that has out grown its container.
Lawns
After a long winter of mixed weather your lawn will benefit from a little TLC; start mowing your lawn regularly, raise the blades of your lawnmower to the highest level for the first cut, gradually reducing them over the growing season.
For a great finish trim lawn edges with a long handled Wilkinson sword border Shears.
For any patches on the lawn use Gro Sure’s 5 Day Lawn Repair Seed.
Lawns will also benefit from a feed at this time of year, apply Mo bacter an organic lawn food that releases nutrients over a 12 week period, it kills moss without turning it black. So there is no need to scarify the lawn.
Maintenance
Regularly feed & water your greenhouse vegetables & bedding plants. Spray troublesome roses for black spot. Spray Apples & Pears for scab. Keep weeds under control in the vegetable garden & flowers beds. Protect vulnerable bedding plants from frosts. Water newly planted bedding that you have started.
See you soon!
Claire Hayes, Manager
Powerscourt Garden Pavilion 
