The Basildon Magazine's April 2014 Edition by Essex Business & Leisure Ltd

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Hi there, Welcome to our April edition. The dry weather has finally arrived, let’s hope it lasts. It’s lovely now the sun has started to shine and we can get into the garden. It’s the month of Easter, and many of us will be doing DIY and spending time with our families, Stay and play will be having an Easter Egg Hunt on Friday, Sunday and Monday for the children with egg give away’s. There is no additional charge for this. Please see pages 24-25 for details. We have a great gardening section for you with everything you need for a perfect garden, so please take a look and use your local businesses. We also have a 4 page pull out Wedding section in the center of our magazine, so if your planning a wedding then please take a look. Beth’s fund is our sponsored charity again this month and there is a monthly update for you to read on page 18. If there is anything you would like to see in our magazine, then please get in touch, you can email us at enquiries@ essexbusinessandleisure.co.uk , call us on 01268 330271 or write to us at Unit 7 Durham Road, Basildon, SS15 6PH Please log on to our website www. eblonline.co.uk to see all our Money saving vouchers, there are some great offers and new offers updated on a monthly basis. You can register for free for monthly updates of our vouchers.

We had a fantastic response this month with our quizzes, if you wasn’t lucky this month then please try again. Quizzes this month, you can win a pair of tickets to see The Sound of Music at The Place Theatre, and for the children you can win a Mid-week Party for 10 children at the popular Stay & Play children’s indoor play area in Basildon. www.stay-play.co.uk 01268 491511. Last month’s Quiz winners were Mr and Mrs R Hawkins from Pound Lane Central, Laindon who won a meal voucher for upto £50 at The Akash Indian Restaurant Laindon and Sarah Houghton from Takely Ride Basildon who won a party for 10 children at stay and play. If you would like to advertise with us, the last day to get your advert in is 20th March. We can design your ad for Free and a Month’s Advertising to 20,000 homes costs from as little as £40. You can contact us on 01268 330271 or email at sales@essexbusinessandleisure.co.uk. We do not vet our advertisers and take no responsibility for anyone who advertises with us. Please stop by and like our Facebook page (Essex Business & Leisure). Keeping it Local Sarah Essex Business & Leisure Magazine’s are delivered to 55,000 homes monthly Throughout Essex by Basildon Leaflet Delivery Service. Please stop by & like our Facebook page (Essex Business & Leisure).

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• Consider planting flowers which may be dried for winter arrangements. Some of the best are strawflower, statice, celosia, and globe amaranth. • Do not restrict yourself to buying plants in bloom. Petunias that bloom in the pack are often rootbound or overgrown and, after planting, will actually be set back and cease to bloom for about a month. Plants without blossoms will actually bloom sooner and will grow better as well. • To extend the blooming period of gladiolus, plant early, middle and late season selections each week until the middle of June. Choose a sunny location and plant the corms four to six inches deep and six to eight inches apart. • Scatter annual poppy seeds in flower borders. The fine seeds need no covering. The plants grow rapidly and provide colorful flowers in early summer.

April’s Monthly Gardening Tips Spring may be showing little evidence but daffodils and tree blossoms are starting to bloom. Expect the inevitable ‘April showers’ this month but sunny albeit chilly days too. It’s an exciting month, with indoor-sown seeds well into growth, and it’s also time to start sowing outdoors. Here’s a few tips you may want to consider. • Consider planting flowers which may be dried for winter arrangements. Some of the best are strawflower, statice, celosia, and globe amaranth. • Do not restrict yourself to buying plants in bloom. Petunias that bloom in the pack are often rootbound or overgrown and, after planting, will actually be set back and cease to bloom for about a month. Plants without blossoms will actually bloom sooner and will grow better as well.

• In a sunny location with poor soil, plant nasturtiums for a colorful show. They require warm soil to sprout and start blooming in about 50 days. Too much water and fertilizer produces excess leaves and few flowers. • When chrysanthemums show signs of life, dig up and divide large plants. Discard woody portions and replant divisions 12 to 15 inches apart. • Cut flower stalks back to the ground on daffodils, hyacinths, and other spring flowering bulbs as the flowers fade. Do not cut the foliage until it dies naturally. The leaves are necessary to produce strong bulbs capable of reflowering. • Don’t add organic matter to the soil when planting trees. It does not help the plant become established and it may create conditions that encourage the roots to stay inside the planting hole instead of spreading to surrounding soil. Do dig a large planting hole, but fill it with the original soil removed from it.

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