Busy times in my Swedish garden in april

This is the busiest time of the year in the gardening world. A lot of jobs in the garden in april. The positive thing about Corona is that we have a lot of time to spent in the garden.  And there is no need to go to the gym anymore because we already had our workout. Being not really used to this habit it hurts a little in our bodies.

There are some special things to do this year. There was a special project called The Swedish Sewer Project last autumn, which ruined half of my garden. A lot of work we could do in wintertime, such as rebuild the entry, equalize the ground and remove the clay and recover the gravel of the driveway. But some jobs were left for springtime. Such as:

• We had to saw lots of new grass for the new lawn
• Plant a beech hedge, to fill the empty spaces after cutting the tree trees and create a more hidden place
• Cover the sewers in some way, so you would not see that ugly concrete things anymore
• Restore the auto movers area

We have some extra jobs:

• It was a very wet winter, there for we have to make some extra drainage because we don not want to have a pool (we are already close to the lake 😊)
• There is a very big dead tree in the garden, before it falls on our barn it has to be cut down by a professional. Afterwards we have to take away the wood and lots of branches.

Of course we also have a lot of normal yearly jobs:

• To clean up old autumn leaves (every year at least about 100 wheel barrows...) and ferns
• Prune al the shrubs and trees before it starts growing (except the ones which flowers before the longest day of the year. We also have a willow tree we have to prune. 
• Fight the weeds (it is growing very fast with good temperatures and sometimes a bit of rain)
• Divide and change some plants positions, best time to do because it's wet and not too hot for rooting
• Prepair sawing inside: This year I prepared some Verbena Bonariensis, Echinacae White Swan and Mirabilis Jalapa.
• Preparing to grow potatoes in an expirimental way, I read about
• Prepare the grass for cutting (repair the robot lines and collect or take away all the branches from stormy weather) ...)

As you can see, we are very busy this time of the year. But don't worry, we have got all the time (no work now because of Corona) 😉