🌦️ Sunshine & Showers – Your Garden’s Best Friends This Week

Hey Friend, 

Its been a while but finally the gardening season is upon us and you can once again look forward to our regular lawn care and gardening emails from the UK Lawn Care Group! 

I hope you're looking forward to the season ahead of us? We have got a whole bunch of tips, tricks and advice to send your way over the coming months. 

So without further ado, here's this weeks installment...

🌤️ Weather Watch

If you thought spring had sprung for good with Saturday’s sunshine, hold onto your wellies – classic April showers are inbound.

UK forecast: Early week will be mild and mostly dry (highs around 12–15 °C) but by Wednesday expect scattered showers across much of the UK. A wet and windy Friday is on the cards with heavier downpours (~10 mm rain) likely then. Temperatures stay springy in the low-to-mid teens, though a cool dip to ~10 °C is possible during the rainiest spells. Nights remain on the chilly side (single digits), but frost is unlikely in most areas.

What this means for your garden: Those upcoming showers are actually great news – your lawn and spring seedlings get a free watering, and the air humidity will give plants a growth boost. On the flip side, you may need to postpone any painting or prolonged outdoor projects until the dry gaps.

Actionable tip: Plan to mow and tidy early in the week while it’s dry. Your grass will thank you for a trim before the downpours arrive (mowing a soaked lawn is no fun!), and you can sit back later as nature does the watering for you.

🌱 Tip of the Week

Weed Now, Mulch After: Weeds love April almost as much as gardeners do. With rain softening the soil, it’s the perfect time to evict those unwelcome green guests. Get ahead of the invasion by pulling up weeds right after a shower – damp earth makes it easier to yank roots out whole. Once your beds or borders are weed-free, reward your plants (and yourself) by laying down a nice layer of compost or bark mulch. Mulching not only keeps new weeds from sprouting, it also locks in moisture from all that April rain. The result? Fewer weeds to pull later and happier, well-hydrated plants. (Your future self will high-five you for this one!

🧄 Quick Fix

Slug “Pub” Trap: Noticed slimy nibblers chewing your new plant shoots? Time to serve up last call for slugs. Bury a small dish or jam jar lid in your garden soil and fill it with beer (cheap lager will do nicely). The yeasty scent of beer is irresistible to slugs – they’ll shimmy in for a sip and drown happy. This simple beer trap can catch a surprising number of slugs overnight, saving your tender seedlings from becoming a midnight snack. Cheers to an organic pest solution! 🍻

🔗 From around the internet...

• What to Plant in April – BBC Gardeners’ World: Handy guide on flowers, veggies and fruits you can sow or plant right now, from carrot seeds to summer bulbs. A great read if you’re itching to plant something new this weekend.

• Join the Community: Come swap stories and tips with fellow gardeners in our Facebook group “UK LAWN CARE GROUP”. It’s a friendly space (with over 42,000 members) to ask questions, share photos of your lawn stripes or tulip displays, and get inspired by what others are up to. (No one will judge your gnome collection, promise!)

📩 That's it for this week!

That’s all for this week’s garden gossip! I’d love to hear how your garden is growing – feel free to reply to this email with any questions or to brag about your biggest tomato seedling 🌱 

Got a lawn dilemma or a brilliant tip of your own? Share away, and we might feature it next time.

Until next week, happy gardening and… Keep it green!