Garden Rescue presenter Lee Burkhill shares his top tips for April (Image: Lee Burkhill/The Garden Ninja)
An expert from BBC Garden Rescue has shared his top three tips for April to help gardens look incredible. Multi-award winning, Lee Burkhill is known to followers as The Garden Ninja.
A presenter who has featured alongside Charlie Dimmock on the BBC’s Garden Rescue, Lee has 35 years of gardening experience. Among his awards, the former IT project manager won the RHS and BBC’s Feel Good Gardens competition in 2016 and was shortlisted by the Garden Media Guild in 2023 for his efforts sharing his expertise on social media.
The Garden Ninja shares his top three gardening tips for this month exclusively with Daily Express readers below.
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Lee recommends identifying your three most important jobs each weekend (Image: Getty)
April is a marathon, not a sprint, so prioritise
The biggest mistake I see gardeners make in April is trying to do everything at once.
Growth accelerates so quickly this month that the to-do list feels never-ending.
My advice is to identify your three most important jobs each weekend and do those well, rather than rushing through ten things badly.
The garden rewards patience and attention far more than frantic effort.
Also, you don’t need to sow everything in one hit, space yourself for the next month, most seedlings will catch up!
Succession sowing helps avoid a glut of produce all at once (Image: Getty)
Start succession sowing now, not all at once
Rather than sowing an entire packet of lettuce, radish, or salad leaves in one go, sow a small amount every two weeks through April and into May.
This single habit transforms your harvest from a brief glut followed by nothing into a steady, continuous supply right through summer.
It’s one of those professional tricks that savvy gardeners use that makes a big difference with your edibles being pretty much on tap rather than a glut and costs nothing extra.
April is the time to invest in a cold frame (Image: Getty)
Get a cold frame working for you this month
If you’ve been thinking about getting a cold frame and haven’t yet, April is the month that justifies the investment.
It bridges the gap between raising seedlings indoors and planting them outdoors, allowing you to gradually harden off young plants without the nightly carry-in, carry-out routine.
Seedlings that go through a proper hardening-off period in a cold frame always establish better than those that go straight from a warm windowsill into open ground.
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