Prescott Garden keeping - April edition

🌿 April in the Prescott Garden
Your Monthly Garden Keeping Summary from The Whiskey Porch

​April in Prescott can feel like spring on steroids—or a flashback to winter. With tulips blooming one day and frost looming the next, this month is all about balance: nurturing emerging growth while honoring our persistent winter chill.
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🌼 Seasonal Highlights

• Protect tender plants from frost: While it’s tempting to plant annuals and tender perennials, keep frost fabric or old sheets handy—our average last frost land around mid-May.
• Direct-sow cool-season crops: April is prime time to sow lettuce, chard, carrots, peas, radishes, and late cabbage.

📝 Full Checklist is on our Substack.  The Prescott Garden Keeping Journal – April Edition includes:

• 🌱 Plants & Planting
• 💦 Water
• 🦌 Critters
• ✂️ Maintenance
• 📝 Planning & Reflecting

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It’s a quieter, more intentional space where I can share practical tips, stories, and behind-the-scenes moments — all without ads or social media noise.  And, we can foster a more personal conversation there which feels more like sharing from the porch than broadcasting into the algorithm void.

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• Check your winter garden plans to see if there are any remaining items to order now that stocks are pretty full and everyone is shipping.  Check your local retailers first to see if they carry what you are looking for, but if your like me and have your eye on more unusual plants or cultivars, don't be too quick to compromise and just pickup whatever is available locally.  Don't wait too much longer because many growers begin to sell out (if they haven't already) on the more popular or unusual items.  Plus, having young plant stock shipped when it's getting hotter out isn't a great way to ensure healthy arrivals.

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can't get enough of this?  want more?

You can find lots more good stuff and inspiration on our Garden Resources page if you'd like to start dreaming about this warmer season!

Cottage Garden Resources

Well thanks for following along.  I've gotten so many nice notes from readers on these checklists, and that really makes my day.  It's wonderful to be able to share a little info and help add a bit of structure to your garden-quest.

Let me know if there's anything else for April that I should have included.  I'd love to hear.

Peace & Contentment,
~Miriam