Terry Kramer

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... April has arrived and along with it longer, warmer days and a few showers. It's time to get into the garden to dig. Here's what to do:

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The easiest way to feed the hummingbirds naturally early on in the spring is to offer them twinberry, Lonicera involucrate.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Perhaps the quickest and easiest fruit you can harvest the first season after planting is the strawberry.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... One of the best ways to have an attractive garden, despite pesky deer, rabbits, rats, squirrels, slugs and snails, is to plant perennial herbs in the landscape.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Longer, warmer days combined with recent rainy weather has brought out the slugs in full force.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... May busts out in full color here on the North Coast.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Perhaps you don't have the space or energy to put in a traditional vegetable garden.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Usually the topic of warming up the garden is scheduled for early-spring planting season when then soil is still cold and frosts are predictable.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If you are looking for a dependable native groundcover that is good looking and low maintenance, consider checker bloom, Sidalcea malviflora.

Roses, rhododendrons, azaleas all should be deadheaded weekly this month. Thinning fruit from apple and pear trees is best done this month as well.