April To-Do List for Zone 9
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If slugs and snails are decimating your plants, collect them in the evening, when you're most likely to spot them.
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Plant pumpkins, summer squash, melons, and other vegetables that thrive in heat.
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Every 2 weeks from now until late summer, plant small blocks of bush beans and sweet corn to extend the harvest until frost.
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Thin fruits on fruit trees to increase their size and keep branches from breaking.
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Plant summer bedding plants, such as petunias, lisianthus (Eustoma grandiflorum), wax begonias, and impatiens.
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Sow seeds of nasturtiums, marigolds, portulaca, amaranthus, salvias, vinca (Catharanthus roseus), sunflowers, and zinnias.
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Plant perennials like ornamental alliums, bellflowers (Campanula spp.), daisies, yarrow, daylilies, coreopsis, penstemon, perennial geraniums (Geranium spp.), iris, and statice.
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